1945 in England
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Events from 1945 in England
Incumbent
[edit]- Monarch - George VI
- Prime Minister - Winston Churchill (until 26 July), Clement Attlee (from 26 July)
Events
[edit]January
[edit]February
[edit]March
[edit]April
[edit]May
[edit]- May 8 â Victory in Europe Day is celebrated throughout the UK. Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes a victory speech and appears on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Street parties take place throughout the country.[1]
June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]September
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]December
[edit]Births
[edit]- January 21 â Martin Shaw, actor
- February 4 â Tony Haygarth, actor (died 2017)[2]
- February 13 â Simon Schama, historian
- February 16 â Jeremy Bulloch, actor (died 2020)
- April 10 â James Bate, actor (died 1992)
- April 21 â Diana Darvey, actress, singer and dancer (died 2000)
- May 14 â Francesca Annis, actress
- July 10 â John Motson, football commentator (died 2023)
- July 26 â Helen Mirren, actress.[3][4]
- August 1 â Laila Morse, actress
- August 5 â Martin Lambie-Nairn, designer (died 2020)
- August 6 â Ron Jones, director (died 1995)
- September 14 â Martin Tyler, football commentator
- October 14 â Lesley Joseph, actress
- October 18 â Juliette Slaughter, racing driver.[5]
- November 30 â Hilary Armstrong, politician.[6]
- December 17 â Jacqueline Wilson, children's novelist.[7]
- December 30 â Davy Jones, singer (died 2012)
- Tom O'Carroll, paedophilia advocate
Deaths
[edit]- 26 March â David Lloyd George, politician (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-1921)) (born 1863)
- 5 December â Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1864)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- â "The Lost Decade Timeline". BBC. Archived from the original on 2006-08-21. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- â Coveney, Michael (14 March 2017). "Tony Haygarth obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- â "Helen Mirren | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- â "Dame Helen Mirren's career in pictures". The Telegraph. 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- â Kettlewell, Mike (1981). The Pace Motor Racing Directory. Boston, Lincolnshire: Kettlewell Transport Information Trade Services. pp. 167â168. ISBN 0-906556-01-5 â via Internet Archive.
- â "Hilary Armstrong". BBC News. 17 October 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- â Ferguson, Donna (24 September 2016). "My parents at war: Jacqueline Wilson opens up about unhappy early life". The Observer. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
