When Kenneth E Richards was born on 11 December 1930, his father, Alfred Edward Richards, was 22 and his mother, Lilian Lightfoot Elliott, was 23. He lived in Bebington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939.
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Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
The death penalty for murder was abolished in England on November 8, 1965.
English: variant of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Rickards .
German: patronymic from the personal name Richard .
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