National Winston Churchill Day Timeline

1965

Dies at age 90

Winston Churchill passes away in his London home nine days after suffering from a severe stroke.

1953

Nobel Prize

Churchill receives a Nobel Prize for literature.

1946

The Iron Curtain

Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri on March 5.

1940s

Churchill and science

Churchill is the first PM to insist scientists be given unprecedented access to the government and funding – resulting in the creation of the ground-breaking Bernard Lovell telescope.