British politician/journalist (born 1905)

Tom Driberg

Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet spy, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1942 to 1955, and again from 1959 to 1974. A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain for more than twenty years, he was first elected to Parliament as an Independent and joined the Labour Party in 1945. He never held any ministerial office, but rose to senior positions within the Labour Party and was a popular and influential figure in left-wing politics for many years.

Born

1905

May 22

Died

1976

Era

1900s

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1905 Born
1976 Died

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192 Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
760 Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
853 A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.

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The world in 1905

When Tom arrived

april 17 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
april 3 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
april 30 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
april 4 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 22

Al Simmons 1902–1956 American baseball player and coach (died 1956) Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930 British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859) George Best 1946–2005 Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005) George S. Hammond 1921– American scientist (died 2005) Gérard de Nerval 1808–1855 French poet and translator (born 1808) Giacomo Matteotti 1885–1924 Italian lawyer and politician (born 1885) Hergé 1907–1983 Belgian author and illustrator (born 1907) Lucie Brock-Broido 1956– American poet (died 2018) Maggie Q 1979– American actress

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1905

Andy Devine 1905–1977 American actor (born 1905) Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1905–1993 Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905–1993 American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993) J. William Fulbright 1905–1995 American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

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