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23
Dec

Winston Churchill brain stroke

While working at 10 Downing Street, Winston Churchill suffered a stroke on 23 June 1953. His secretariat announced he was very tired and weakened to justify several weeks of absence and convalescence from this event kept secret. He had a temporary speech impairment and difficulty in moving. He was able to attend a Conservative Party meeting in October of the same year. Following this attack, he decided to retire in 1955 at eighty years old. In Winston Churchill's Horoscope:On June 23, 1953 is positioned at 13° 18' of Pisces. This degree of the day is in the House VI, that of disea...

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24
Dec

Winston Churchill Nobel Prize in Literature

Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on 15 October 1953 for his mastery of historical and biographical description, his outstanding speeches and his defense of human values. His most famous works are six volumes of memoirs, The Second World War, and four volumes of history, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the outbreak of the First World War (1914).In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II named him a Knight of the Order of the Garter. In 1958, General de Gaulle appointed him a "Compagnon de la Libération". I...

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