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| | 1706 | George II | |
| Hanover Anne sends Halifax to Hanover to bestow upon George II the Order of the Garter
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| 1813 | Wellesley, Arthur | |
| 4th Mar Awarded the Order of the Garter
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| 1856 | Temple, Henry John | |
| London Awarded the Order of the Garter by Queen Victoria
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| 1926 | Baden-Powell, Robert | |
| Recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest award conferred by the Boy Scouts of America
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| 1943 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 6th Sep London Receives an honarary degree from Harvard University
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| 1948 | Elizabeth II | |
| 23rd April London Awarded by George VI marking the 600th anniversary of the Order of the Garter
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| 1964 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot | |
| Only the 2nd woman to win the order of merit, the 1st was Florence Nightingale
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| 1970 | Sellars, Peter | |
| Ringo Starr appears with Sellers in the anarchic movie The Magic Christian (1970), whose theme song was Badfinger's "Come and Get It", written by Paul McCartney
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| 1979 | Sellars, Peter | |
| "Being There", based on the Jerzy Kosinski novel he cherished, which earns Sellers his best critical reviews since the 1960s, a second Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe award
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| 1983 | Waters, Roger | |
| 20th Mar Roger Waters receives a BAFTA. award for "Another Brick In The Wall Part II"
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| 1985 | Clapton, Eric Patrick | |
| Wins a British Academy Television Award for his collaboration with Michael Kamen on the score for the critically-acclaimed 1985 BBC television thriller serial Edge of Darkness
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| 1985 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 29th Jan Oxford Academics have led a campaign against honouring Mrs Thatcher in protest against the Government's cuts in funding for education
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| 29th Jan Oxford Oxford University votes against the traditional honorary doctorate on a PM, the first Oxford-educated prime minister since the war to be denied the honour
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| 1993 | Townshend, Pete | |
| Tommy is successfully adapted to the Broadway stage in 1993, with Townshend's blessing and involvement, and wins five Tony awards
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| 1999 | Major, John Roy | |
| Jan Awarded the Companion of Honour by the Queen
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| 2005 | Williams, Robert Peter "Robbie" | |
| London Receives a special award at the 25th Brit Awards ceremony
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| 2006 | Daltrey, Roger | |
| The Who are the first recipients of the Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement Award in Live Music at the Vodaphone music awards
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| 2006 | Townshend, Pete | |
| The Who are the first recipients of the Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement Award in Live Music at the Vodaphone music awards
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