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October 8th 1967: Clement Attlee dies
On this day in 1967, former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee passed away aged 84. He was Deputy Prime Minister under Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government. Attlee’s Labour Party then defeated the Conservative Party in the 1945 election. He led the country in post-war recovery, most famously creating the National Health Service (NHS). He left office in 1951 after losing to Churchill and the Conservatives. Attlee died of pneumonia at Westminster Hospital in 1967.
via This Day In History.
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