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