# Today is the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's death

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**Created:** [January 24, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735 "2015-01-24T05:53:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735/1 "2015-01-24T05:53:50Z")

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He died on 24 January 1965.

Some footage of his funeral has just been screening on television. The scene where the dock workers lowered their cranes as the funeral barge passed down the Thames was very poignant.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735/2 "2015-01-24T07:18:28Z")

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I vividly remember the playing of [_The Battle Hymn of the Republic_ during the funeral (3:05 in the link),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peswIugboyM) in part a tribute to his American mother.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735/3 "2015-01-24T07:45:30Z")

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I was ten when he died, and even then I knew how important he was.

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**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735/4 "2015-01-24T11:17:41Z")

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Most of them hated Churchill. But they got paid overtime for doing it, and ‘money talks.’

> [@Cunctator](#):
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> Some footage of his funeral has just been screening on television. The scene where the dock workers lowered their cranes as the funeral barge passed down the Thames was very poignant.