Scarborough in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Scarborough in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records5 event labels5 people1806–1963

Historical events in Scarborough

1806

Election

Charles Manners-Sutton · Tory Party

Elected Tory Member of Parliament for Scarborough 1806-32,

1914

16 December 1914

Scarborough Raid Response Reviewed

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 1st

The Admiralty reviews the German bombardment of Scarborough and the failure to force a decisive interception.

1919

26 January 1919

Birth of Bill Nicholson

Bill Nicholson · Football

Birth of Bill Nicholson, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, the eighth of nine children

1960

7 October 1960

Chairman of Labour Party

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman · Labour Party

Becomes chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee for the 1960-1961 political year.

1963

1 October 1963

Conference of Labour Party

Harold Wilson · Labour Party

Advocates policy of supporting science & technology for the future of Britain

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