2014 Event Beijing issues air pollution warnings, advising limited outdoor activity as particulate concentration (PM 2.5) measures 309, over 12 times the World Health Organization standard 1997 Death Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies 1997 Event Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes 1995 Event Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours, Starting December 9th at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982 1995 Death Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies 1993 Death Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies 1993 Event Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM 1992 Death Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack 1991 Event U.S. insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST 1990 Event Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors 1990 Event Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM 1988 Event WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio) 1988 Event Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 1988 Event Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) 1983 Event Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM 1983 Event Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM 1982 Death Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies 1980 Event At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon 1980 Death Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 1979 Event Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM 1977 Event Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM 1972 Death Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 1971 Death Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo 1970 Event At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) 1969 Event Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM 1968 Event A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 1968 Event Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM 1965 Event 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout) 1964 Death Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74 1963 Event Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM 1960 Event In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM 1959 Death S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk 1957 Event Harold MacMillan becomes British PM 1957 Event Anthony Eden resigns as British PM 1948 Event ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York) 1945 Event After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM 1945 Death Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament 1944 Death Colijn, Netherlands PM, buried 1942 Birthday David Russell Lange, PM, L, New Zealand, 1984-89 1942 Birthday Graham Bright, private sec to British PM 1941 Event SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM 1939 Birthday Joe Clark, Charles Joseph, P-C, 16th Canadian PM, 1979-80 1939 Birthday Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist 1939 Death Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard 1934 Birthday Jean Chretien, Canada PM, Lib, 1993- 1930 Birthday Edward Seaga, PM, Jamaica 1929 Birthday John Turner, born in Richmond, England, L, 17th Canadian PM, 1984 1926 Birthday Lee Kuan Yew, PM, Singapore 1924 Birthday Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM, 1987-89 1921 Birthday Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon 1921 Event William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM 1921 Event Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM 1919 Birthday Pierre Trudeau, 15th Canadian PM, 1968-79, 1980-84 1918 Birthday Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM, 1972-74, convicted of bribe-taking 1917 Birthday Indira Gandhi, born in Allahabad, India, Indian PM, 1966 - 1977, 1980 - 1984 1917 Event Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM 1916 Event David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM 1916 Birthday Gough Whitlam, ALP, Australia, PM, 1972-75 1916 Birthday Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77 1916 Birthday Pierre Messmer, PM, France 1913 Death Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated 1911 Death Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov 1910 Birthday Trygve Martin Bratteli, Norwegian PM, Labour, 1971-72, 1973-76 1907 Death Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63 1905 Birthday Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM, 1980-85 1904 Birthday Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM, 1960-72 1902 Birthday Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM, 1953-55 1901 Birthday Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974 1897 Birthday Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957 1895 Birthday John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM, C, 1957-63 1894 Birthday Robert Menzies, Australian PM, 1939-41, 1949-66 1892 Birthday Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM, 6 times, 1942-63 1889 Birthday Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM, 1947-64 1888 Birthday Milan Stoyadinovich, born in Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM, 1935-39 1885 Birthday John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM, Labor, 1941-45 1882 Birthday Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, L, 12th Canadian PM, 1948-57 1881 Birthday Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM, 1917 1880 Birthday Manuel Azana y Diaz, PM/president of 2nd Spanish republic, 1936-39 1878 Birthday Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM, most of 1946-54 1874 Birthday William Lyon Mackenzie King, L, 10th Canadian PM, 1921-30, 1935-48 1874 Birthday Konstantin Pats, Estonian PM, 1921-23, 1932-33, dictator, 1933-40 1873 Birthday Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM, 1924-26, 1929-42 1872 Birthday Albert P Sarraut, French Governor-General of Indo-China, 1911..19, PM, 1933/36 1870 Birthday Richard B. Bennett, C, 11th Canadian PM, 1930-35 1867 Birthday Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM, 1944-47 1863 Birthday Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician 1860 Birthday Raymond Poincare, France, president/PM, 1912 1854 Birthday Robert Laird Borden, C, 8th Canadian PM, 1911-20 1850 Death Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1849 Birthday Furst Bernhard HM von Bulow, German chancellor/Prussian PM, 1900-09 1841 Birthday Wilfrid Laurier, L, 7th Canadian PM, 1896-1911 1841 Birthday Georges Clemenceau, France, PM, 1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss 1835 Birthday Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM 1827 Birthday Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer 1821 Birthday Charles Tupper, C, 6th Canadian PM, 1896 1821 Birthday John Abbott, born in Quebec, Canada, C, 3rd Canadian PM, 1891-92 1818 Birthday George Brown, Canada, publisher, Toronto Globe, PM, L, 1858 1810 Birthday Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM 1792 Birthday John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM, 1846-52, 1865-66 1785 Birthday Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM, 1835-36 1781 Event Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1766 Birthday Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM, 1815-18, 1820-21 1759 Birthday William Pitt, the Younger, C, English PM, 1783-1801, 1804-06 1730 Birthday Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, English PM, 1765-76 1708 Birthday William Pitt the Elder, Whig, U.K. PM, 1756-61, 66-68, 'Great Commoner' 1632 Birthday Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories 1609 Birthday Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM, 1660-67 1592 Birthday George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM, 1625-28 421 Event Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
