In 2012 Malam Bacai Sanha the President of Guinea-Bissau, died aged 64 in Paris, France. He had travelled to France for treatment of an undisclosed medical condition that was thought to be diabetes.
In 1972 English coal miners walked out in strike, at midnight, over pay. 280,000 miners went on strike when negotiations over pay failed. The miners wanted a pay increase of £9 a week making the new average take home wage of £34 a week.
In 1965 Sir Winston Churchill suffers a stroke and never recovers. He dies 15 days later on the 24th of January.
On the 10th of May 1940 Chamberlain lost a vote of confidence in the House of Commons and subsequently resigned. His replacement was Winston Churchill, who took over at a time when many European Nations had been forced to surrender (including the other “Allied Nations”, France and Poland). Britain stood alone in Europe against the Axis powers (Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan (Japan joined a few months later on the 27th of September 1940) with only commonwealth members (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Newfoundland and South Africa) giving military support. His impressive leadership skills as Prime Minister led to victory in World War II. He returned to leadership of the UK as Prime Minister in 1951 (at the age of 77 but was forced to step down due to ill health in 1955.
In 1806 Lord Horatio Nelson was buried at Saint Paul’s Cathedral. Lord Nelson was one of Britain’s greatest Naval Hero’s. He led the Royal Navy to defeating Napoleon and the French Navy on several occasions as well as defeating both the French and Spanish fleets at the battle of Trafalgar and saving England from invasion. It was in this battle that Nelson was mortally wounded, dying later that day.
