Monday 9 April 2007

Winston Churchill Day

Today is Winston Churchill Day. In 1963, Winston Churchill, posthumously, became the very first person to become an honorary US citizen. Today we celebrate the day! (I guess we will drink and smoke cigars!) To become an honorary US citizen a law must be drafted and voted upon by the U.S. Senate. There have only been 6 people (two are a married couple who received it jointly) to be accorded this stature.

Raoul Wallenberg (1981)

William and Hannah Callowhill Penn (1984)

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1996)

Marquis de Lafayette (2002)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lafayette didn't become a citizen until 200 years after his death? What was the point of that?

WooHoo Sister said...

Payback for helping us get rid of the British!