Gordon Brown, Prime minister of United Kingdom, decided to partially nationalize the eight largest British banks on 8 October 2008. In US Horoscope:On October 8, 2008 is situated at 11°38' of Virgo. It is close to the degree of the Sun (12°43'). This position of the Sun in Virgo is in opposition with natal Saturn (22°31' of Pisces) and with the transit of Uranus (19°42' of Pisces). It also is in conjunction with natal Neptune (14°25' of Virgo) and with the transit of Saturn (16°08' of Virgo). Gordon Brown nationalized eight banks -Analogies The degree of the day is in the House ...

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On 29 July 1981, Diana Spencer became Diana Princess of Wales by marrying Prince Charles. She will always be remembered as the Princess who worked to alleviate the world's misery by championing major humanitarian causes. Date of the Solar Revolution: Wednesday, 1 July 1981.Age: 20 years old. Moon-Sun period.Position of the degree of the year: 9°40' of Libra in an exact degree allotted to the Sun (natal position 9°40' of Cancer)!Position of the degree of the day: 7°40 of Scorpio. This degree is in conjunction with the Ascendant of SR (to within 1°) and the Part of Fortune (of the SR) in...

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On 2 April 1982 the Falklands War began. The Argentine military invaded two archipelagos in the South Atlantic, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, which belonged to the United Kingdom. The Falkland Islands had a population of about 1,800, mostly of European origin. South Georgia is inhabited by 400,000 king penguins, as many elephant seals and a few scientists. Margaret Thatcher mobilized her fleet from 5 April onwards. 114 English ships took part in this operation, most of the Royal Navy. South Georgia liberated on 25 April, which was widely approved by its 800,000 inhabitants. Her troo...

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Elizabeth II has been Queen of the United Kingdom since on 6 February 1952. On that morning, her father King George VI was found dead in his residence at Sandringham House. He died at the age of 56 of a coronary thrombosis. In February 1945 at the age of 18, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service with the honorary rank of lieutenant. She received training in driving and mechanics and was promoted to honorary lieutenant colonel after five months' training. She married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark on 20 November 1947. The coronation took place on 2 June 1953 in the presence of Princ...

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On 4 August 1914, the United Kingdom went to war after the invasion of Belgium by the German army.The pretext for the European powers to enter the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, on 28 June 1914, by a Bosnian Serb nationalist student. Austria-Hungary turned its suspicions against Serbia. They got the unconditional support of Germany, which thought that the time was right to defeat Serbia, Russia and France. Within a few days, from 25 July to 6 August, many European countries found themselves at war. Two large bl...

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George V was the King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, Emperor of India, who reigned at the time of the First World War (King and Emperor from May 6, 1910 to January 20, 1936). From twelve years old, he was forced to join the Royal Navy, attaining the rank of Commander in 1891. George V was the cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his ally, and also of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany who initiated hostilities against Belgium.From 1st to 4 August 1914, Germany went to war: On Saturday 1st August, Germany declared war on Russia at 7.30 in the evening (Russian time).The next day, France dec...

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