Politician. A survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima. He was mayor of the city from 1975 to 1991. Every year on the anniversary of the bombing, he made appeals to the world to ban nuclear weapons. In 1976 he protested about an air show in Texas, in which the US Air Force held an imitation of the atomic attack in the form of a mushroom cloud in the desert.
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Takeshi Araki
We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of this cruel experience clearly fo...
Vice-Chairman of the Shoreditch Housing Committee in 1949. Elected onto the LCC in 1949.
Formed as a merger of various areas of Essex.
Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Barnet in 2012.
Co-churchwarden of Chelsea Old Church in 1882. In 1884 he was named on a tablet inside the church, still a co-churchwarden.
Courtier and scientist. Called Lord Herbert. Catholic. In the court of King Charles I.
Flight Officer, 133 Eagle Squadron, Administrative or Special Duties Officer, British
