On This Day January 24

On January 15, 1965, Sir Winston Churchill suffered a stroke — a severe cerebral thrombosis — that left him gravely ill. He died nine days later, on January 24, 1965, 70 years to the day of his father's death. His daughter Mary wrote to him on his death bed. "I owe you what every Englishman, woman and child owes you - liberty itself."

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