2014 Event Leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement have been denied permission to travel to the mainland; the men sought to fly to Beijing to present their grievances to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang 2013 Event Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Bucharest, Romania. The Premier will attend the China-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) leaders' meeting as a guest of the Prime Minister 2013 Event Major bushfires that have endangered lives and destroyed homes cause Barry O'Farrell, the Premier of Australia's New South Wales to declare a state of emergency 2013 Event Australia swears in Denis Napthine as the Premier of Victoria, replacing Ted Baillieu 2013 Event In China, Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the National People's Congress announcing the country's 2013 goal of a 7.5% growth rate in GDP 2012 Event The premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, announces his resignation 2012 Event After Simon Bolivar's U.K. concert, featuring Venezuela's premier youth orchestra sells out eight months in advance, it is announced that the concert will be live-streamed on June 23rd and 26th, 2012 2012 Event Following a landslide victory, Campbell Newman is sworn in as Australia's new Premier of Queensland 2012 Event China's Premier Wen Jiabao blames the Dalai Lama for ongoing self-immolations by Tibetan monks 2011 Event South Australia swears in their new Premier, Jay Weatherill after officially electing him as the leader of the Australian Labor Party 2011 Event New South Wales swears in its new Premier, Barry O'Farrell, following its state election 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 Lara Giddings becomes the first female Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania 2010 Event Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao releases pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang e-2 lunar mission 2010 Event China's Premier, Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and declares the need for better treatment of the country's migrant workers 1997 Event Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier 1995 Death Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 1995 Event Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1995 Event Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns 1995 Event Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi 1995 Event Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns 1995 Death Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86 1995 Event Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg 1994 Event John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier 1994 Event Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal 1994 Death Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72 1994 Event Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan 1994 Event Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle 1994 Event Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary 1994 Event Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns 1994 Death Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69 1994 Event Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan 1994 Event Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns 1994 Event Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan 1994 Event Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns 1994 Event Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru 1993 Death Kakuei Tanaka, premier of Japan (1972-74), dies at 75 1993 Event Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns 1993 Event British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination 1993 Death Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61 1993 Event Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns 1993 Event Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead 1993 Death Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60 1993 Event Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns 1993 Event Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign 1993 Event Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey 1993 Event Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns 1993 Event Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns 1993 Event Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol 1993 Event Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election 1992 Death Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70 1992 Death Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies 1992 Death Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies 1992 Event Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania 1992 Event Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns 1991 Event Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia 1991 Event Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago 1991 Event Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan 1991 Death Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris 1991 Event Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia 1991 Death Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies 1991 Event Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea 1991 Event Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier 1991 Event Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns 1991 Event Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested 1991 Event Valentin Pavlov become new premier of U.S.S.R. 1991 Event Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland 1990 Event Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns 1990 Event Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway 1990 Event President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan 1990 Event Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada 1989 Event Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor 1989 Event Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece 1989 Event Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu 1989 Event Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway 1989 Death Janos Kadar, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77 1989 Event Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed 1989 Event Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped 1988 Event Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka 1988 Event Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens 1988 Death Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74 1988 Death Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86 1987 Event Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe 1987 Death John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 1987 Event Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR 1987 Event Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba 1987 Death Rene Levesque, Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65 1987 Death Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60), dies at 90 1987 Death Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65 1987 Event Japan's premier Nakasone visits the U.S. 1986 Event Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi 1986 Event President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 1986 Death Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85 1986 Event King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres 1986 Event Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election 1986 Event Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud 1986 Event Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections 1986 Event South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president 1986 Event Military coup in Lesotho under general-major Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan 1986 Event Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands 1985 Event Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election 1985 Event France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior 1985 Event Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections 1985 Death John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83 1985 Death Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 1984 Event China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty 1984 Event Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France 1984 Event John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada 1984 Death Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82 1983 Death Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup 1983 Death Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered 1983 Event Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns 1983 Event Israel premier Begin resigns 1983 Death Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67 1983 Event Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy 1983 Death Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95 1982 Event Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan 1982 Event Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier 1982 Death Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55), dies 1982 Death Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier, dies 1982 Event Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees 1981 Event Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV 1981 Event Poland premier Jagielski resigns 1981 Event Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections 1981 Event 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC) 1981 Event L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain 1981 Event Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski 1981 Event Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway 1980 Event Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena 1980 Event Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral 1980 Death Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74 1980 Event Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch 1980 Event Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran 1980 Event Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan 1980 Event Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran 1980 Event Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal 1979 Event Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns 1979 Event Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris 1979 Event India premier Charan Singh resigns 1979 Event Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein 1979 Event Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India 1979 Event Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier 1979 Event Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda 1979 Event Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power 1979 Event Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto 1978 Event Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier 1978 Event Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa 1978 Event Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran 1978 Death Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83 1978 Event Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares 1978 Death Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered 1978 Death Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered 1978 Event Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death 1978 Event Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed 1977 Event Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off 1977 Event Portugal's premier Soares resigns 1977 Event Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election 1977 Event Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off 1977 Event Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel 1977 Event Israel premier Rabin resigns 1977 Event Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India 1977 Death Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82 1977 Death Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74 1977 Death Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53 1977 Death Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79 1976 Event Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier 1976 Event Jamaica premier Manley wins elections 1976 Event Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy 1976 Event Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain 1976 Event Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier 1976 Event British premier Harold Wilson resigns 1976 Event Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR 1975 Death Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69 1975 Event Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns 1975 Death Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77 1975 Event Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany 1975 Death Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74 1975 Death Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier 1963 - 1965, dies at 58 1975 Death Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71 1975 Death Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of U.S.S.R. (1955-58), dies at 79 1975 Death Chivu Stoica, Stoica Chivu, premier of Romania 1955 - 1961, dies at 66 1975 Event Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation 1975 Event Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1974 Event Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen 1974 Death Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies 1974 Event Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier 1974 Event Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain 1973 Event Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair 1973 Event 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou 1973 Death Theo Lefevre, premier Belgium, dies 1973 Event Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain 1972 Event British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike 1972 Death Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/secretary-general (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73 1972 Event Pierre Messmer appointed French premier 1972 Event General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 Event President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1972 Event President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1972 Event Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy 1972 Event Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier 1971 Death Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57 1971 Event Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Death Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Event Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry 1971 Event Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan 1971 Event Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 Death Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian premier (1952..56), dies at 78 1970 Death Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 1970 Event Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia 1970 Birthday Alan Shearer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, professional soccer player, striker, record goal scorer for Newcastle and Premier League, philanthropist 1970 Death Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89 1970 Death "Jopie" Pengel, Johan A, premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54 1970 Death Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies 1970 Event Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt 1970 Event West German chancellor and East German premier Willy Brandt meet 1970 Event Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia 1970 Event Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya 1969 Event Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya 1969 Death Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies 1969 Death Levi Eshkol, Sjkolnik, premier (Israel), dies at 73 1969 Death Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76 1968 Death Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 1968 Event Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal 1968 Death Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 1967 Death Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 1967 Death Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 1967 Event Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns 1967 Event Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier 1967 Event Premier Pompidou forms new French government 1967 Death Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies 1966 Death Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies 1966 Event Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier 1966 Death Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies 1966 Event Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa 1966 Death Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85 1966 Death Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57 1966 Event China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1966 Event Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda 1966 Death Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61 1966 Event Georges Pompidou appointed French premier 1965 Event Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece 1965 Event Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary 1965 Event South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier 1965 Death Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62 1965 Death Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered 1965 Event Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured 1965 Death Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered 1964 Event Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin 1964 Event Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns 1964 Event Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan 1964 Event Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam 1964 Event Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev 1964 Event Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany 1964 Event Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo 1964 Event Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India 1964 Event Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier 1964 Event Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia 1964 Event Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia 1964 Birthday Paul Parker, born in West Ham, London, athlete, soccer player, commentator, critical player at 1990 World Cup with England, manager, Blue Square Premier League 1964 Death Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69 1964 Event Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia) 1963 Death Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 1963 Death Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52 1963 Event British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns 1963 Event Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart 1963 Death Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 1963 Death Matya Rakosi, Rosencranz, premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71 1963 Death Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies 1963 Event Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya 1963 Event Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow 1963 Event Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV 1962 Death Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90 1962 Event Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria 1962 Event John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote 1962 Event Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters 1962 Event John F. Kennedy dines with premier MacMillan in London 1962 Event Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia 1961 Event Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) 1961 Event India's premier Nehru arrives in New York 1961 Event Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece 1961 Death Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73 1961 Event Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria 1961 Death Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76 1961 Event Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. 1961 Event Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo 1961 Event Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 1961 Event Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo 1961 Event Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia 1961 Death Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34 1961 Event Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo 1961 Event David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel 1960 Death Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89 1960 Event President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 1960 Event Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack 1960 Event Demonstrations against premier Lumumba 1960 Event Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon 1960 Event Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns 1960 Event South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle 1960 Event U Nu elected premier of Burma 1960 Event Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia 1960 Event Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact 1959 Event U.S. premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert 1959 Event Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit 1959 Event Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary 1959 Event Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon 1959 Event Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands 1959 Death Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies 1959 Event Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation 1959 Event Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 1959 Event Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns 1959 Death Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84 1958 Death Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1958 Event Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed 1958 Death John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 1958 Death Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered 1958 Event Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia 1958 Event J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname 1958 Event Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium 1958 Event Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French 1958 Event French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1958 Event Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 1958 Event Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1958 Event Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq 1958 Event Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia 1958 Event Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary 1958 Death Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 1957 Death Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72 1957 Event Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France 1957 Event II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan 1957 Event Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) 1957 Event Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders 1957 Death Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies 1957 Event British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1956 Death Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67 1956 Death Pietro Badoglio, Premier of Italy (1943-44), dies at 85 1956 Death Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 1956 Event Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan 1956 Event Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election 1956 Event Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns 1956 Event Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated 1956 Event R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria 1956 Event French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers 1955 Death Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88 1955 Event Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania 1955 Event India premier Nehru visit U.S.S.R. 1955 Event I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan 1955 Event Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him 1955 Event HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 1955 Death Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51 1954 Event John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa 1954 Death Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 1954 Event Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia 1954 Event John Costello becomes premier of Ireland 1954 Event Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of U.S.S.R. 1954 Event Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1953 Event Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet 1953 Event David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel 1953 Event British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution 1953 Event U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid 1953 Event General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia 1953 Event Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired 1953 Death Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies 1953 Event Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary 1953 Event Joseph Laniel appointed French premier 1953 Event South African premier Malan visits Netherlands 1953 Event Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" 1953 Birthday Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England 1953 Death Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 1953 Event Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties 1953 Death Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84 1952 Death Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92 1952 Event General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier 1952 Event Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary 1952 Event Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns 1952 Event Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier 1952 Event Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president 1952 Event Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India 1951 Event Winston Churchill re-elected British premier 1951 Event Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia 1950 Event East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification 1950 Event Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier 1950 Death William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75 1950 Event Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier 1950 Death Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77 1949 Event Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier 1949 Event Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of East Germany 1949 Death Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death 1949 Event Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria 1949 Death Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67 1949 Event Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier 1949 Death Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 1948 Event Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1948 Event Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier 1948 Event John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland 1947 Death Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80 1947 Event Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier 1947 Event Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns 1947 Birthday Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier, 1993- 1946 Event Leon Blum elected French premier 1946 Event Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria 1946 Event Georges Bidault elected premier of France 1946 Death Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed 1946 Event Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia 1946 Event Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over 1946 Event British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1946 Event Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties 1945 Death Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 1945 Event Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender 1945 Event Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated 1945 Event British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 1945 Event British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) 1945 Death David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 1945 Event Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen 1945 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim 1945 Event Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation 1945 Event British Premier Winston Churchill visits France 1944 Event Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London 1944 Death Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35), dies 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 Event Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow 1944 Death Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75 1944 Event British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. 1944 Event British premier Churchill travels to Scotland 1944 Event King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1944 Event General Koiso becomes premier of Japan 1943 Birthday David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada, L, 1982- 1943 Event Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel) 1943 Birthday Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan 1943 Event British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada 1943 Event Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 Event Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java 1943 Event Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia 1943 Event German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca 1942 Death James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76 1942 Event German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier 1942 Event British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo 1942 Event Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow 1942 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1942 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo 1942 Event British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London 1942 Event President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. 1942 Death Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81 1942 Event Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida 1941 Event Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York 1941 Event Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier 1941 Event Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis 1941 Birthday Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia 1941 Birthday Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore, 1990- 1941 Birthday Maria Liberia-Peters, premier of Dutch Antilles, 198?-93 1941 Event Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia 1941 Birthday Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname 1941 Death Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies 1941 Event Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands 1941 Event Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin 1940 Birthday Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers 1940 Death Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71 1940 Event Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile 1940 Event Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer 1940 Event Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland 1940 Event Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans 1940 Event Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1940 Event Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis 1940 Event Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1940 Event Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris 1940 Event Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1940 Event Paul Reynoud becomes French premier 1940 Event Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile 1939 Death Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered 1939 Event Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest 1939 Birthday Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian premier, 1981-82, 86-89, 90- 1939 Death Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68 1939 Event Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco 1938 Event Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet 1938 Event British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich 1938 Event Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming" 1938 Event British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich 1938 Event British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 1938 Event General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece 1937 Event Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier 1937 Event Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections 1937 Death Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies 1937 Event Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France 1937 Event Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier 1937 Event Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier 1937 Birthday Erskine Sandiford, premier, Barbados, 1987-94 1936 Event Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier 1936 Event Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral 1936 Event Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl 1936 Event Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt 1936 Birthday Wilfried Martens, premier, Belgium, 1979-81, 1981-92 1936 Death Demertzis, Greek premier, dies 1936 Birthday Kennedy A. Simmonds, premier, St. Kitts and Nevis, 1983-95 1936 Event Manuel Azana becomes Spanish premier 1935 Event Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of New Zealand 1935 Death Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89 1935 Birthday John Swan, raised in Deepdale, Bermuda, politician, United Bermuda Party, Premier of Bermuda 1982 - 1985 1934 Event Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power 1934 Death Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 1934 Death J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered 1934 Birthday Pedro Pires, premier, Cape Verde, 1975-91 1934 Birthday Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier, 1983-87 1934 Birthday Edithe Cresson, premier of France, 1991-92 1933 Death Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered 1933 Event Camille Chautemps becomes French premier 1933 Death Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1933 Birthday Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain, 1976-81 1933 Birthday Robert Bourassa, born in Montreal, premier of Quebec, 1970-76, 1985- 1933 Event Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia 1932 Event Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium 1932 Event Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal 1932 Event Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France 1932 Death Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered 1932 Death Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered 1932 Death Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69 1932 Event Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France 1931 Event Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia 1931 Event Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain 1931 Event Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary 1931 Event Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium 1931 Event Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain 1931 Birthday Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier, CDA, 1977-82 1931 Birthday Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan, 1989-91 1930 Event Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand 1930 Death Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81 1930 Birthday Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier and president, Sudan 1929 Birthday Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia 1929 Death Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 1929 Death Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88 1929 Event Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress 1929 Death Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66 1929 Birthday Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of U.S.S.R., 1985-1991 1929 Event French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe 1929 Event Aristide Briand becomes premier of France 1929 Event Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark 1928 Birthday Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, premier of Kwazulu, Shaka Zulu 1928 Death Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies 1928 Birthday Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier, Netherland's Antilles 1928 Death Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (1908-16), dies at 75 1928 Birthday Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier, Pakistan 1927 Event Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier 1927 Birthday Tadeusz Mazowiecki, premier of Poland, 1989-90 1926 Event Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert 1926 Event General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1925 Birthday Pierre Beregovoy, French premier, 1992-93 1925 Birthday Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia, 1981- 1925 Event Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested 1925 Death Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74 1925 Death Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies 1925 Birthday Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo 1925 Event Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier 1925 Birthday Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier, Rhodesia 1925 Event Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola 1925 Event Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden 1924 Birthday Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983- 1924 Event British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R. 1924 Event Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier 1924 Event Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier 1924 Birthday Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe 1924 Event Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier 1923 Birthday Simon Peres, premier of Israel 1923 Event Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government 1923 Event Dutch Premier de Geer resigns 1923 Death Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies 1923 Event Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown 1923 Event Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier 1923 Birthday Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles, NVP, 1973-77 1923 Birthday Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana, 1964-85 1922 Event Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy 1922 Event William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins 1922 Birthday Rene Levesque, Quebec premier, 1976-85 1922 Birthday Anchor Jorgenson, premier of Denmark, 1972-82 1922 Birthday Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier 1922 Birthday Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia, 1970-77 1922 Birthday Yitzak Rabin, premier Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994 1922 Birthday Eric Gairy, premier, Grenada 1922 Event Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier 1921 Death Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered 1921 Death Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered 1921 Birthday Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand, 1975-84, chairman, IMF 1921 Birthday Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana, Bechuanaland 1921 Birthday P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India, 1991- 1920 Birthday Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos, Pathet Lao, 1991-92 1920 Death Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83 1920 Birthday Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier, 1971-73 1919 Death Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68 1919 Birthday Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire 1919 Death Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies 1919 Event Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria 1919 Event General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa 1919 Birthday Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier, PVDA, 1973 - 1977 1919 Birthday Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium, 1966-68, 1978-79 1919 Death Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51 1919 Event French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt 1919 Birthday Andrea George Papandreou, Greek premier, 1981-89, 93- 1919 Event Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1919 Birthday Giulio Andreotti, 7 x premier, Italy 1918 Birthday Konstantinos Mitsottakis, premier of Greece, 1990- 1918 Event Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier 1918 Birthday Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan, 1982-87 1918 Birthday Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier, 1953, 1957-64 1918 Birthday Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Hungarian governor/premier, 1910-12 1918 Event British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1917 Birthday Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles 1917 Death Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73 1917 Birthday Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier, 1963-65 1916 Death Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated 1916 Birthday Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname 1916 Birthday Dom Mintoff, premier Malta 1916 Birthday Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles, 1968-69 1916 Birthday Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname, 1963-69 1915 Event Aristide Briand becomes premier of France 1915 Birthday Mariano Rumor, premier Italy 1915 Death Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65 1915 Event Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos 1915 Birthday Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier, KVP, 1967-71 1914 Birthday Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark, 1962-68, 71-72 1914 Birthday Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier, KVP, Mammoth Law 1914 Birthday Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63 1912 Death Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58 1912 Death Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered 1912 Death August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83 1912 Birthday Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier 1912 Birthday Janos Kadar, premier Hungary, 1956-58 1912 Birthday Heinz Kuhn, German premier, North-Rhine Westphalia 1912 Birthday Michel J-P Debre, premier of France, 1959-62 1912 Event Raymond Poincare becomes premier of France 1911 Death Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies 1911 Death Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies 1911 Death Pjotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11), murdered at 49 1911 Birthday Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president 1911 Event British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany 1911 Birthday Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73 1911 Birthday Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland, 1947..70 1911 Birthday Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia 1911 Birthday Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France 1911 Event Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier 1911 Event Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly 1911 Birthday Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, premier, Queensland 1910 Event Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption 1910 Death Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered 1909 Event Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption 1909 Birthday Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1909 Death Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62 1909 Birthday Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia, 1945-47 1909 Event Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden 1908 Birthday Chivu Stoica, premier of Romania, 1955-61 1908 Death Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies 1908 Event Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier 1908 Event British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns 1908 Birthday Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy 1908 Event Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium 1907 Birthday Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles 1907 Birthday U Nu, premier Burma, 1948-58, 1960-62 1907 Birthday Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan 1907 Birthday Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium, 1952-54 1907 Death Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered 1907 Event General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal 1907 Birthday Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France 1907 Birthday Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier, 1968-69 1907 Birthday Roy Welensky, Premier, Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63 1906 Event Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France 1906 Birthday Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, 1968-74 1906 Event Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier 1905 Birthday Guy Mollet, French socialist premier, 1956-57 1905 Event Netherlands/Russian Count Witte becomes premier of Russia 1905 Death Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered 1905 Birthday Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland 1905 Event Hungarian premier Tisza resigns 1905 Birthday Pierre Mendes-France, French Premier, 1954-55 1904 Birthday Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier, 1964-66 1904 Event Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber 1904 Birthday Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier, 1964-80 1903 Event Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier 1903 Death Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 1903 Birthday Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7 1903 Birthday Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark, 1947..55 1903 Birthday Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia 1902 Birthday Leopold Figl, premier of Austria 1902 Event British premier Lord Salisbury resigns 1902 Birthday Louis J. M. Beel, premier of Netherland, 1946-48, 58-59 1902 Death Kalman Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71 1902 Death Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79 1901 Birthday Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos 1901 Birthday Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated 1901 Birthday Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63 1901 Death Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 1901 Event Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands 1901 Birthday Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier, 1946-69 1901 Birthday Rene-Jean Pleven, French premier, 1950-52 1901 Birthday Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, Nobel 1974 1901 Birthday Mario Scelba, premier Italy, 1954-55 1900 Birthday Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64 1900 Birthday Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland, 1956-81 1900 Event General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1900 Birthday Jean Duvieusart, premier, Belgium 1950 1899 Birthday Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon, 1956-59 1899 Birthday Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/Secretary-General of NATO, 1957-61 1898 Birthday Achiel H. Acker, born in Belgian premier, 1945-46, 1954-58 1897 Death Antonio Canovas del Castillo, premier of Spain, murdered at 69 1896 Birthday Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1946-53 1896 Birthday Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan, 1957-60 1896 Event Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City) 1896 Event Italian premier Crispi resigns 1896 Birthday Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India, 1977-79 1896 Event Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony 1895 Death Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62 1895 Birthday Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan, 1947-51 1895 Birthday Nikolai A. Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of U.S.S.R., 1955-58 1894 Birthday Willem Schermerhorn, Netherlands premier, 1945-46 1894 Birthday Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece, 1944, 50-51 1894 Event German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1894 Event German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1894 Event Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate 1893 Death Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80 1893 Birthday John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa, 1954-58 1893 Birthday Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania 1892 Birthday Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian party leader/premier, 1952-53 1891 Birthday Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs 1891 Birthday Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya opposition leader/1st premier, 1963-78 1891 Birthday Antonio Segni, premier/president, Italy 1890 Birthday Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony 1890 Death Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66 1889 Birthday Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier, 1937-39 1889 Death Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies 1889 Birthday Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal, 1932-68 1889 Birthday Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs 1889 Birthday Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president 1888 Birthday Benjamin Cremieux, French author, Le premier the la Classe 1888 Birthday Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier 1887 Birthday Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier, 1942-45 1887 Death Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75 1887 Birthday Miklos Kallay, premier Hungary, 1942-44 1886 Birthday Robert Schuman, French premier 1885 Birthday Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London, 1940-45. 1885 Birthday Camille Chautemps, premier France 1884 Birthday Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter 1884 Birthday Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia 1884 Birthday Ismet Inonu, Moestafa Ismet, Turkish gen/premier/president 1884 Birthday Edouard Daladier, premier France, 1933..40 1884 Birthday Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48 1884 Birthday Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China, 1932-35 1883 Birthday Hubert M E Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier, 1939-45 1883 Birthday Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek premier, 1945, 50, 51-52 1882 Death Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 1882 Death Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies 1882 Birthday Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia 1881 Birthday Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general 1881 Birthday Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier, 1917-Prelude to Bolshevism 1881 Birthday Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier, 1945 - 1953 1881 Birthday Vaino A. Tanner, premier of Finland, 1926-27 1879 Birthday Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary, 1920-21, 39-41 1879 Birthday Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Sturgkh 1879 Event Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha 1878 Birthday Paul Reynaud, premier France, May-June 1940 1877 Birthday Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain, 1931-36 1876 Death Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 1874 Birthday Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa, 1948-54 1874 Event Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 1873 Birthday Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Netherlands, 1918-25, 29-33 1872 Death Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies 1872 Birthday Leon Blum, French premier, People's front government 1871 Birthday Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier, 1946-47 1870 Birthday Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier, 1926-29, 39-40 1870 Birthday Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium, 1927-31 1869 Birthday Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier, AR 1933-39 1869 Birthday Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier, 1920-21 1868 Birthday Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier, 1918-21 1867 Birthday Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria, 1918-19 1867 Event Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary 1866 Event German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt 1866 Birthday James B. Hertzog, South African general/premier, 1914 - 1939 1864 Birthday Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece, 1910-15, 28-32 1863 Birthday Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier 1863 Birthday Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier, 1914-15 1863 Birthday Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France, 1913..34 1863 Birthday Wilhelm Marx, premier, Prussia 1862 Birthday Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier, 1931-32 1862 Birthday Pyotr A. Stolypin, premier Russia, 1906-11 1862 Birthday Aristide Briand, born in France, 11x premier, 1909-22, Nobel 1926 1861 Event Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns 1860 Birthday Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland, 1919-20 1860 Birthday Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier, 1917-19 1857 Birthday Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium, 1907 1856 Birthday Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia 1854 Birthday Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain, 1910-12 1852 Birthday Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain, L, 1908-16 1851 Birthday Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch premier, 1905-08 1851 Birthday Frans Schollaert, Belgian premier, 1908-11 1851 Birthday Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier, 1895-96, Nobel 1920 1849 Death Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43 1849 Birthday Sergei J Witte, Netherlands/Russian count/premier Russia 1849 Birthday Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Premier of Hungary, 1910-12 1848 Event Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns 1847 Event Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo 1847 Death Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66 1846 Birthday Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1846 Birthday Kasimir F Badeni, Polish/Austrian premier of Cisleithanie 1846 Birthday Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier, 1913-18 1846 Birthday Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier, 1891..1926 1844 Death Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, British premier (1801-04), dies at 86 1843 Birthday Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium, 1899 1842 Birthday Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy, 1892..1921 1842 Birthday Alexandre Ribit, premier, France 1839 Birthday Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier, 1897-1901 1838 Birthday Emile Loubet, premier/president of France, 1892, 1899-1906 1838 Death Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74 1838 Birthday Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier, 1881 - 1882 1837 Birthday Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier, AR, 1908-12 1833 Birthday Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier, 1868..93 1831 Birthday Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia 1830 Birthday Kalman Tisza, premier of Hungary, 1875-90 1829 Birthday August Beernaert, Belgian premier, 1884-94, Nobel-1909 1828 Birthday Antonio Canovas del Castillo, premier of Spain 1823 Birthday Guyla Andrassy Sr, premier of Hungary, 1867-71 1822 Birthday Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier, 1866 1821 Birthday Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier, 1873-74, 1977 1821 Birthday Ion Bratianu, Lib, premier of Romania, 1876-88 1818 Birthday Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier 1818 Birthday Antoine Dorion, L, joint premier of Canada, 1858, 1863-64 1815 Birthday Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia 1813 Birthday Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier, 1852-59 1811 Birthday Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier, 1863- 1811 Death John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 1811 Death August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 1806 Birthday Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary 1806 Birthday Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49 1805 Birthday Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia 1798 Birthday Johan R Thorbecke, Premier of Netherlands, Lib-1849..72 1792 Birthday Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane 1792 Death Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 1792 Death John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78 1788 Birthday Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies 1783 Event William Pitt, Jr. (24) becomes British premier 1780 Birthday Auguste De Polignac, premier France, Reponse mes adversaires 1778 Death William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 1770 Death George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58 1766 Event English premier Rockingham resigns 1763 Birthday Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil 1763 Death John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72 1754 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier 1754 Event Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain 1754 Death Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57 1754 Birthday Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, French bishop/premier, 1815 1746 Event Henry Pelham appointed English premier 1745 Death Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1745 Death Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1744 Event English premier John Carteret resigns 1742 Event Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier 1735 Birthday August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier 1734 Birthday John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples 1726 Event Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier 1723 Death Abbe Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies 1714 Event English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley 1713 Birthday John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier, 1760-63 1711 Event Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder 1688 Event King James II fires premier Robert Spencer 1661 Birthday Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier, Whig, 1710-14 1661 Death Don Luis Mendez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63 1661 Event French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1661 Death Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 1648 Event French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together 1645 Death Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58 1638 Event Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" 1598 Death William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 1587 Birthday Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain, 1621-43 1585 Birthday Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France, 1624-42 1578 Birthday Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes, premier of France/Governor of Picardie 1560 Death Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident 1553 Death John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 1551 Event English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland 1549 Event John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier 1524 Death Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 1520 Birthday William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier
