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Aneurin Bevan was born into an area of Wales where two-thirds of the male population worked underground in the mines. Throughout his career he championed the cause of the working classes and his service as Minister for Health gave the British universal healthcare through the National Health Service. Continue reading 6 July 1960: Death of Aneurin Bevan, British Politician George Everest was responsible for the great trigonometrical survey of India, but it is for the peak that bears his name that he is remembered. Despite this, he never saw the world’s largest mountain. Continue reading 4 July 1790: Birth of George Everest, British Surveyor For Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber, life was always a struggle. But even frequent incarceration in debtors’ prisons did not stop him achieving his goal of perfecting the rubber manufacturing process. Unfortunately, he never benefited financially from his hard work. Continue reading 1 July 1860: Death of Charles Goodyear, American Inventor As one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, Stan Laurel starred in over a hundred comedy shorts and feature films. But he also had a successful acting and writing career before his partnership with Oliver Hardy. Continue reading 16 June 1890: Birth of Stan Laurel, English Comic Actor Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into an era in which women were assigned an inferior role. But through her writing, and her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe was influential in the abolitionist cause. Continue reading 14 June 1811: Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe Billy Butlin was the ultimate showman. His dream of providing affordable holiday entertainment for the British public saw his business grow from a single fairground stall to a national holiday camp and hotel empire. Continue reading 12 June 1980: Death of Billy Butlin, Holiday Camp Founder Nicolas Fouquet Nicolas Fouquet was born in Paris on 27 January 1615, the son of a royal administrator and shipowner. His family’s wealth enabled him to purchase several posts in the government of Louis XIV. Fouquet was a supporter of Cardinal Mazarin and gained through him two posts that increased his wealth and Continue reading 23 March 1680: Death of Nicolas Fouquet, French Minister Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat was born on 22 March 1910 in Liverpool, England, the fourth child of Keith and Ada Monsarrat. His birth certificate records his surname as Montserrat as this was his mother’s preferred spelling of the name. Monsarrat referred to his time at school, first at St Christopher’s School for Boys in Continue reading 22 March 1910: Birth of Nicholas Monsarrat, British Novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on 1 September 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the son of George and Mary Burroughs. He was educated at various schools, moving around to avoid outbreaks of disease. In 1891, at the age of fifteen, Burroughs spent six months in Idaho on the cattle ranch Continue reading 19 March 1950: Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American Novelist |
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