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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 |
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