Timeline Friday 30 April 1943

Events on Friday 30 April 1943 2

• 1858 – 1943 Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) Died 30 April 1943, aged 85 Beatrice Webb was an English social reformer, economist and Fabian socialist. With her husband Sidney Webb she co-founded the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. She helped shape the ideas behind the British welfare state.
• 1943 Operation Mincemeat A corpse carrying fake plans deceives the Axis British intelligence released a corpse dressed as a Royal Marines officer off the coast of Spain. It carried forged documents suggesting the Allies would invade Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily. The deception helped draw German forces away from Sicily.