![]() You look like a mix of EpicLLOYD and a Pringles packet! I'm the Rhyme Minister, fresh in a hat and dinner jacket! I'm about to take you out prematurely like your family! Pass me a cigar and a large glass of brandy. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in opinion polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. He died at his London home nine days later, at the age of 90, on January 24th, 1965, 70 years to the day after his father's death. On January 15th, 1965, Churchill suffered a severe stroke that left him gravely ill. Domestically, his government laid great emphasis on house-building. His second term was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed coup d'état in Iran. After winning the 1951 election, Churchill again became Prime Minister. He publicly warned of an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.Īfter the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, Churchill became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. ![]() He was a British statesman and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA was born on November 30th, 1874, in Woodstock, England.
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