Two British civil servants, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, and her newly devoted friend, Harry Houghton, 55, and divorced.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter ( British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii ) and the Isabella Psalter ( State Library, Munich ), contain full Bestiary cycles.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

Two investigations have been held by the British government.

* Disney bomb, a British " rocket-assisted " bomb of World War Two

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

Two decades earlier the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 had stated that the United Kingdom and the dominions were " equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations ".

Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.

Two British children's annuals were produced based on the show published by Collins in 1960 and 1961.

Two British physicists, Andrew Noble and Frederick Abel, worked to improve the properties of blackpowder during the late 19th century.

* 1961 – Gillian Gilbert, British musician ( New Order and The Other Two )

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

The British historian D. C. Watt wrote " Two hours later, Berlin Radio broadcast the sixteen points, adding that Poland had rejected them.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.

For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

* 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

Although pulp magazines were primarily an American phenomenon, there were also a number of British pulp magazines published between the Edwardian era and World War Two.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the League to adopt the Lahore Resolution of 1940, demanding the formation of independent states in the East and the West of British India.

Two copies of the pamphlet exist in the British Museum.

Two Polish slave janitors of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide in early 1943 provided maps, sketches and reports to Polish Home Army Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the " rocket assembly hall ', ' experimental pit ', and ' launching tower '.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Two civilians, Damien Donaghy and John Johnston were shot and wounded by soldiers on William Street who claimed the former was carrying a black cylindrical object.

Two days later on 11 July, Moise Tshombe declared the independence of Katanga province in the south-east, closely backed by remaining Belgian administrators and soldiers.

Two Luxemburger soldiers were killed and 17 were wounded in the war.

Two days later, on September 12, Hei no Saemon and a group of soldiers abducted Nichiren from his hut at Matsubagayatsu, Kamakura.

Two years later its soldiers sacked Salerno.

Two other major memorial sites associated with the genocide are in Kicukiro District: Rebero Genocide Memorial Site where 14, 400 victims are buried and the Nyanza-Kicukiro Genocide Memorial Site where 5, 000 victims were killed after Belgian soldiers who serving in the United Nations peacekeeping forces abandoned them.

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

* 10 February: Two female Israeli soldiers are killed and four people are injured in a shooting attack at a civilian bakery near a military base in Beersheba.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

Two Mexican soldiers were killed, and one Texian was injured when he fell off his horse during the skirmish.

Two soldiers of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division were awarded Medals of Honor for action in the battle.

Two bayoneted corpses are the only survivors of seven street cleaners who were sitting in their headquarters when Japanese soldiers came in without warning or reason and killed five of their number and wounded the two that found their way to the hospital.

Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the garden wall and are about to break into our house.

Two soldiers entangled their main canopies and opened their white reserve parachutes as a precaution.

Two other eye-witness accounts of the flag exist, both from American soldiers.

Two members of Bouchard's contingent made contact with the garrison soldiers and made their demand for provisions, which was rebuffed with added threats: Lieutenant Argüello replied that if the ships did not sail away the garrison would gladly provide " an immediate supply of shot and shell ".

Two years later, in autumn 1446, Sultan Murad II who had come out of retirement, led an army of 50 – 60, 000 soldiers into Greece to put an end to the pretensions of Constantine.

Two hundred and fifty soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a cemetery on the grounds of the university.

Two United States soldiers were treated after displaying the early symptoms of exposure to sarin.

Two protesters in Toronto demonstrate against the American policy of holding child soldiers as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay.

The lyricist, Hugh Martin, wrote lyrics which referred to the soldiers fighting during World War Two.