1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879)

Max Aitken

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.

Born

1879

May 25

Died

1964

Era

1870s

Country

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Max, in brief

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Key dates

1879 Born
1964 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-567 Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
-240 First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.

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The world in 1964

When Max departed

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 25

Alan Kippax 1897–1972 Australian cricketer (died 1972) Alistair Burt 1955– English lawyer and politician Chris Young 1979– American baseball pitcher Emperor Shenzong of Song (died 1085) 1048– Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Ezekiel Kemboi 1982– Kenyan runner Heinrich Bär 1913–1957 German colonel and pilot (born 1913) Herb Gray 1931– Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (died 2014) Jeanne Crain 1925–2003 American actress (born 1925)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1879

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879) Albert Asher 1879– New Zealand rugby player (died 1965) Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Annie Kenney 1879– leading British suffragette (died 1953) Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Boris Savinkov 1879– Russian soldier and author (died 1925) Carlos Chagas 1879–1934 Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934) Edward Bruce 1879–1318 American lawyer and painter (died 1943) Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879)

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