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  • England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday May 23, 1945
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill resigned as Prime Minister

    England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday May 23, 1945

    With a general election looming (there had been none for almost a decade), and with the Labour Ministers refusing to continue the wartime coalition, Churchill resigned as Prime Minister on 23 May 1945. Later that day, he accepted the King's invitation to form a new government, known officially as the National Government, like the Conservative-dominated coalition of the 1930s, but sometimes called the caretaker ministry.




  • Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
    Wednesday May 23, 1945
    Heinrich Himmler

    Himmler's death

    Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
    Wednesday May 23, 1945

    Himmler bit into a hidden potassium cyanide pill and collapsed onto the floor. He was dead within 15 minutes. Shortly afterward, Himmler's body was buried in an unmarked grave near Lüneburg. The grave's location remains unknown.




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