Leo ButcherAge: 821918–2000
- Name
- Leo Butcher
- Given names
- Leo
- Surname
- Butcher
Birth | 2 June 1918 Cardiff R D, Glamorgan, Wales |
History | 1918 Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised. |
History | 1922 (Age 3) Note: Irish Free State established. |
History | 1928 (Age 9) Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men). |
History | 1936 (Age 17) Note: Spanish Civil War. |
History | 7 July 1937 (Age 19) Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War). |
History | 1938 (Age 19) Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich. |
History | 1 September 1939 (Age 21) Note: The German invasion of Poland. |
History | 3 September 1939 (Age 21) Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany . |
History | 10 June 1940 (Age 22) Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France. |
History | 22 June 1941 (Age 23) Note: German attack on the USSR. |
History | 7 December 1941 (Age 23) Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour). |
History | 8 December 1941 (Age 23) Note: America declares war on Japan. |
History | 11 December 1941 (Age 23) Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America. |
History | 8 September 1943 (Age 25) Note: Italy surrenders. |
History | 13 October 1943 (Age 25) Note: Italy declares war on Germany. |
History | 19 April 1945 (Age 26) Note: German forces in Italy surrender. |
History | 8 May 1945 (Age 26) Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day). |
History | 2 September 1945 (Age 27) Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day). |
Death | July 2000 Age: 82 Canterbury R D, Kent, England |