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DAVID GREENGLASS: TWICE A TRAITOR

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David

Statue in marble by Michelangelo (1501–04; Accademia, Florence). The subject of David, biblical boy hero who killed the giant Goliath, was a popular symbol of the small republic of Florence; that Michelangelo portrayed the diminutive hero as a giant was seen as a grand statement of civic confidence. The sculpture's size (about 5.5 m/18 ft), combined with the mastery of its execution, has made it a symbol of the Renaissance itself.

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8 January 1921

David Lloyd George becomes the first British Prime Minister to occupy a country mansion in Buckinghamshire. The grace and favour house was presented to the nation as a gift by The Lord Lee of Fareham.

12 January 1919

The first meeting between British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George;French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau; Italian Prime Minister, Vittorio Orlando; and American President Woodrow Wilson takes place at the Paris peace conference.

25 January 1981

In Britain, the 'Gang of Four', Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers announce their intention to leave the Labour party to form a new social democratic party.

28 January 2004

In Britain, the Hutton Report – an enquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly – is published.

20 February 2006

Controversial British historian David Irving is sent to jail in Austria for denying the Holocaust.

26 February 2000

The British government sues former British spy David Shayler for breaking the official secrets act.

28 February 1993

In Waco, Texas US police raid the Branch Davidian church with a warrant to arrest the group’s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid. A siege starts, which lasts for 51 days.

25 March 2000
In Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist party leader David Trimble narrowly wins an election to maintain his position.

26 March 1981
In Britain, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams launch a new political party, the Social Democrat Party.

17 April 1999
A bomb explodes on a busy street in Brixton, south London injuring 45 people. David Copeland, a right-wing extremist, is later arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the attack and for planting other bombs in London.

19 April 1993
In America, the siege at the headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas comes to an end as the building is set on fire after the police storm the building.

27 April 1124
David I becomes King of Scotland.

4 May 1977
British Broadcaster, David Frost conducts a famous television interview with former American President Richard Nixon.

8 May 1978
In New York, America David Berkowitz, who become known as “Son of Sam”, pleads guilty to killing six people. He is later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

23 May 1960
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion announces that Israel has captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

12 June 1978
American mass murderer David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty allowed, with a recommendation that he is never released.

16 June 1963
Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, resigns.

9 July 1972
Singer David Bowie appears for the first time as alter ego Ziggy Stardust in London.

13 July 1955
Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain - executed at Holloway Prison for the murder of her lover David Blakely.

22 July 1946
The militant Zionist organization, the Irgun, blow up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine, residence of the British rulers of the country.

1 August 2003
In Britain, the Hutton Inquiry, an investigation into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly, begins.

6 August 1987
In Britain, David Owen, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, resigns after members of the party voted to merge with the Liberal Party.

28 August 2003
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Hutton Inquiry, an inquest into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

1 September 2003
In Britain, the widow of Dr David Kelly testifies before the Hutton Inquiry, the inquest into her husband’s suicide.

8 September 1504
Italian sculptor, painter and poet Michelangelo unveils his Statue of David in Florence.

24 September 1992
The heritage minister and Conservative MP David Mellor is forced to resign from the government following a series of tabloid revelations about his private life.

5 October 1974
Taking four years American David Kunst completes the first round-the-world journey on foot.

17 October 1346
The English army of Edward III defeats the army of King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross near Durham.

19 October 2003
In England, American illusionist David Blaine completes his latest stunt, ending his 44 days in a glass box by the River Thames in London without food.

2 November 1986
American David Jacobsen is released by Islamic Jihad in Beruit, Lebanon, having been held hostage for 17months.

10 November 1871
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone, finally makes contact with him in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in Zanzibar and asks, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

1 December 1973
Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion dies aged 87.

6 December 2005
In Britain, David Cameron is elected the new leader of the Conservative Party.

15 December 2004
The British Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns following allegations that he tried to fast-track a visa application for a nanny of a former lover of his.

21 December 2005
Pop star Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish become one of the first couples to have a same-sex civil partnership ceremony following a change in the law in England and Wales.

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