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2012 Event - Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December

2012 Event - Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner

2012 Event - Australians in the country's Northern Territory elect the Country Liberal Party

2011 Event - After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia

2011 Event - AOL purchases the liberal website, The Huffington Post, for $315 million

2006 Death - Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies

1995 Event - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections

1994 Death - Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67

1994 Event - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1994 Event - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns

1993 Event - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election

1991 Death - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister, dies

1990 Death - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53

1988 Event - Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP

1986 Event - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election

1980 Death - Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73

1980 Event - Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections

1978 Event - Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections

1976 Event - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws

1974 Event - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election

1961 Birthday - Ann Coulter, born in New York City, New York, conservative political commentator, author, 'Godless: The Church of Liberalism', 'How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)'

1961 Event - Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party

1959 Event - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections

1953 Event - Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1953 Birthday - Guy Verhofstadt, born in Dendermonde, Belgium, politician, liberal, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium 1999 - 2008, member, European Parliament

1953 Birthday - Paul Krugman, born in New York, economist, liberal, political columnist, author, op-ed columnist for 'The New York Times', wrote, 'The Conscience of a Liberal'

1952 Event - Liberal Party wins Japanese elections

1951 Birthday - Jan Franssen, born in Hilversum, North Holland, politician, Dutch liberal political party, in 2006, named Queen's Commissioner in South Holland, previously served as city councilor, Nederhorst den Berg, President, House of Representatives 1982 - 1994, mayor of Zwolle, 1994 - 2000

1951 Birthday - Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey

1950 Birthday - Alan Colmes, born in New York City, New York, radio and television host, liberal political commentator, host of 'The Alan Colmes Show', runs 'Liberaland' blog

1950 Birthday - Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia

1950 Event - Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government

1949 Event - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)

1948 Event - Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms

1948 Birthday - Nigel Jones, born in Chelenham, England, politician, Liberal Democrat, Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1992 - 2005

1948 Event - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)

1947 Birthday - Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996

1946 Birthday - Archy Kirkwood, born in the United Kingdom, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire 1983 - 2005

1945 Death - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42

1943 Birthday - Tom McNally, born in England, Thomas McNally, Baron McNally, politician, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, life peer, Baron of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire

1940 Death - Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75

1939 Death - Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69

1936 Birthday - Ian McLachlan, cricketer, Cambridge and S Australia bat, later Liberal MP

1936 Birthday - Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party

1934 Birthday - John Pardoe, CEO, Sight and Sound Education, Liberal MP

1930 Birthday - Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1975 - 1983

1929 Birthday - Jeremy Thorpe, British MP, Liberal

1928 Birthday - Eric Lubbock, born in England, born Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, 4th Baron Avebury, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Orpington

1925 Death - Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies

1925 Birthday - Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber, Liberal

1921 Event - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague

1919 Birthday - Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber, Dutch Liberal Party

1918 Birthday - Willem J "Molly" Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister

1918 Birthday - Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party

1918 Death - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73

1916 Death - Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53

1915 Death - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57

1915 Event - Last liberal British government of Asquith falls

1908 Event - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election

1908 Birthday - William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1971 - 1972

1907 Birthday - Harm van Riel, Dutch politician, Dutch Liberal Party

1906 Death - Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67

1905 Birthday - Lionel Trilling, author, 1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination

1905 Death - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60

1904 Death - John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64

1903 Birthday - Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party

1901 Birthday - Chester Bowles, born in Massachusetts, ambassador and writer, Conscience of a Liberal

1900 Birthday - Lord Gladwyn, MP, Liberal

1887 Death - Pieter Blusse van Alblas, liberal minister of Finance, dies at 75

1880 Death - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80

1879 Death - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69

1872 Death - Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies

1866 Birthday - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament, 1905-19

1864 Death - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71

1862 Birthday - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament

1861 Death - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84

1860 Death - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63

1859 Event - U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform

1855 Event - Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising

1854 Birthday - Jean Reville, French vicar/theologist, Liberal Protestantism

1848 Event - Toscane gets liberal Constitution

1846 Event - Belgian Liberal Party forms

1839 Birthday - Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician

1838 Birthday - Eugen Richter, German parliament member, Liberal

1836 Birthday - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27

1832 Birthday - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP, liberal

1827 Birthday - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP, Liberal

1821 Event - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII

1812 Birthday - Pieter Blusse van Oud-Alblas, Dutch liberal minister of Finance

1811 Death - Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82

1809 Birthday - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance

1799 Birthday - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician

1796 Birthday - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician

1792 Birthday - Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice, liberal

1777 Birthday - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, 1813-14

1728 Birthday - Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden

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