https://www.wikiwand.com/en/William_McMillan_(sculptor)
From 1940 to 1966 he became involved in a number of important and prestigious public commissions, and became more widely recognised at international level.
He was assaulted and robbed in September 1977, shortly after his ninetieth birthday, and died of his injuries on 25 September 1977[1] in a hospital at Richmond upon Thames. He was buried in Richmond Cemetery.
Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown
British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.[1] They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy[2] bomber from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.[3] The Secretary of State for Air, Winston Churchill, presented them with the Daily Mail prize for the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane in “less than 72 consecutive hours”.
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