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Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. [1] [2] [3] His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in 1935. [4] [5] The official funeral lasted for four days.
He also stated that "France did not need Syria's help to track Gaddafi and Assad would certainly not have sold [Gaddafi's] telephone number in such a way." [69] Syria strongly rejected any foreign involvement in Libya and was one of the only Arab League member states to vote against a request to the UN for a no-fly zone within Libyan airspace.
Ford is honored during a memorial service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., December 30, 2006. Gregory Willard, President Ford's personal attorney and former White House aide, was responsible for the overall planning and conduct of the state funeral as president and Mrs. Ford and the Ford family's designated personal representative.
During the week's events Nancy Reagan was escorted in public by U.S. Army Major General Galen B. Jackman.. On June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States and the 33rd governor of California, died after having Alzheimer's disease for over a decade.
In 1866, a military fort established on the Missouri-Yellowstone confluence in what is now North Dakota, was named Fort Buford after the general. The community of Buford, Wyoming, was renamed in the general's honor. The town, nearly uninhabited, was sold at auction for $900,000 on April 5, 2012, to an unnamed Vietnamese buyer by its owner, who ...
On Monday, 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma. [1] The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. [ 2 ]
Bush experienced a series of health problems in his final years. In 2012, he was diagnosed with vascular Parkinsonism, necessitating the use of a mobility scooter and eventually a wheelchair, limiting his speech and his ability to travel across the world (due to this, he did not participate at the memorial service of Nelson Mandela in 2013, opting to send a message of condolence to Mandela's ...
Walton Harris Walker (3 December 1889 – 23 December 1950) was a United States Army four-star general who served with distinction in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, where he commanded the Eighth United States Army before dying in a jeep accident.