British politician and leader of the Labour Party (died 1963)

Hugh Gaitskell

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power following the bitter winter of 1946–47, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet.

Born

1906

April 9

Died

1963

Era

1900s

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1906 Born
1963 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

193 The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
537 Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. Despite shortages, he starts raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges but is forced into a stalemate.
1241 Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.

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The world in 1906

When Hugh arrived

april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan 1285–1320 Emperor Renzong of Yuan (died 1320) Charles E. Burchfield 1893–1967 American painter (died 1967) Chorão 1970–2013 Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Elias Lönnrot 1802–1884 Finnish physician and philologist (died 1884) Erich Ludendorff 1865–1937 German general and politician (died 1937) Gian Maria Volonté 1933–1994 Italian actor (died 1994) Harris Wofford 1926–2019 American politician, author, and civil rights activist (died 2019) Heinz Meyer 1916– German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II (died 1987)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906) Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Buddhadasa 1906– Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993) Chandra Shekhar Azad 1906–1931 Indian revolutionary (born 1906) Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Constance Stokes 1906–1991 Australian painter (died 1991) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 German pastor and theologian (born 1906) Eleanor Hibbert 1906– English author (died 1993) Endre Kabos 1906– Hungarian fencer (died 1944)

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