Labels:text | font | screenshot | paper OCR: CHRONOLOGY NOVEMBER 30, 1874 Bom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, near Oxford. OCTOBER 1, 1911 Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in Liberal government. APRIL 30, 1915 Failure of the Dardanelles Expedition, in World War I, leads to his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty. NOVEMBER 6, 1924 Baldwin names him Chancellor of the Exchequer. MAY 10, 1940 Appointed to head wartime coalition government. JULY 1945 Loses general election. APRIL 24, 1953 Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. DECEMBER 10, 1953 Awarded Nobel prize for literature in recognition of "historical works and biographies as well as his brilliant speeches." JANUARY 24, 1965 Dies in London; buried, following a state funeral, in the churchyard at Bladon, near Blenheim.
