Churchill Born: Britain's Future Wartime Leader Arrives
Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in November 1874, two months premature. He failed into Sandhurst on his third attempt. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, thought him too dim for the law and pushed him toward the army. He escaped from a Boer War prison camp in 1899, survived cavalry charges and aerial bombing, and became Prime Minister at 65 — the year most careers end. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his war memoirs. He'd been writing his whole life.
November 30, 1874
152 years ago
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