2015 Event The Japanese Diet enacts a defense policy allowing the nation's troops to aid allies in conflicts that also threaten Japan; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the law, but it is opposed by many who wish to maintain the country's pacifist constitution 2015 Event Australia's Liberal Party votes in Malcolm Turnbull to replace Tony Abbott as prime minister; Abbott had received majority backing from his party in a no-confidence vote just seven months ago 2015 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encounters resistance to proposed labor reforms as 150 million workers go on strike for a day in protest; Modi is seeking to make the Indian business environment more attractive to investment by foreign companies 2015 Event Japanese protesters gather outside the nation's parliament building to oppose changes proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to allow Japanese combat defense aid to allied nations for cases in which Japan itself is not under attack 2015 Event Greek judge Vassiliki Thanou is sworn in as the nation's interim prime minister after last week's resignation of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras; new elections for the position will be held in September 2015 Event Certain members of Greece's Syriza party form the Popular Unity Party, which opposes the current E.U. bailout; Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who ran on a Syriza anti-bailout platform, resigned after accepting the bailout terms against voter wishes 2015 Event The Greek parliament approves a euro bailout package that contains conditions rejected by voters during an earlier referendum; failed confidence in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by his Syriza party may now oblige him to call new elections 2015 Event Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi gains parliamentary approval for his proposed reforms to fight corruption and reduce government spending; the measures include eliminating certain government positions and reexamining closed corruption cases 2015 Event Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asserts Japan's continued pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons as the city of Nagasaki commemorates the 70th anniversary of its destruction by atomic bombing 2015 Event Greece misses its $1.8 billion debt payment to the IMF after a bailout extension request was denied; Greek leaders had rejected making reforms in exchange for the funds, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now willing to negotiate 2015 Event Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, is sentenced to eight months in prison after new evidence emerges proving corruption charges for which he had been acquitted three years ago 2015 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron is re-elected for five more years in a decisive victory that upset predictions of a close election and resulted in the first Conservative majority government since 1992 2015 Event Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi meets with U.S. President Barack Obama, focusing on the fight against ISIS militants; Obama agrees to send humanitarian aid but makes no commitment regarding military supplies or assistance 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to speak out against the pending deal with Iran in which sanctions will be lifted in exchange for cuts in Iranian nuclear capacity; Netanyahu warns the pact may lead to nuclear arms acceleration 2015 Event Lee Kuan Yew, founder of the nation of Singapore and prime minister for 31 years, dies at the age of 91 after suffering for weeks from pneumonia 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling Likud party have retained victory in this week's election; Netanyahu will now focus on forming a coalition government 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new' 2015 Event Creditor nations agree to extend Greece's bailout program by four months as long as required economic reforms continue; new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had campaigned on reversing the reforms but now accepts the terms to avoid financial chaos 2015 Event New anti-austerity Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras halts the public asset privatizations required under Greece's bailout agreement with its foreign creditors; Standard & Poor's has lowered its rating on Greek national debt from stable to negative 2015 Event Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party, is elected as Prime Minister of Greece on an anti-austerity platform 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi make progress in the areas of defense and nuclear trade; the countries plan to cooperate on defense issues, military manufacturing initiatives and nuclear power development 2014 Event In the recent Japan elections, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gains victory, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party wins the majority of lower house elections 2014 Event Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk replaces Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Council 2014 Event Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will step down when he has reached constitutional term limits; Putin has served as either president or prime minister continually since the year 2000 and may run for a final presidential term in 2018 2014 Event After two years of hostility between Japan and China over control of certain islands in the East China Sea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Linping shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit 2014 Event 27 hostages have been freed in Cameroon, including the wife of vice prime minister Amadou Ali and a group of Chinese workers; Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible 2014 Event Pakistani protesters seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif briefly take over the state television station and shut it down; soldiers and paramilitary forces later regained control and restored operation 2014 Event Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has agreed to stop challenging Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister; President Fuad Masum selected al-Abadi for the position earlier this week 2014 Event Arseny Yatseniuk, prime minister of Ukraine, submits his resignation in frustration over inaction of the parliament to address energy needs and military funding 2014 Event Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a role as economic advisor to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in order to help Egypt reform its economy and develop new business opportunities 2014 Event Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is nominated for the position of President of the European Commission in a 26-2 vote over U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who strongly objected to the decision 2014 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin targeting assets stored overseas in an effort to avoid taxes; the Indian government estimates that up to $2 trillion may be in hiding; the nation follows China and Russia in magnitude of offshored wealth 2014 Event Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, advises other nations to be cautious in recognizing the new Palestinian government, formed by agreement between Islamist rival groups Fatah and Hamas; Hamas plans to maintain its anti-Zionist stance 2014 Event India has officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade; K. Chandrasekhara Rao will serve as Telangana prime minister 2014 Event Online business networking site LinkedIn will be expanding its presence in Singapore's central business district; the company established headquarters in Singapore in 2011 and sees the prime location as a means to attract the best talent 2014 Event President Obama meets with Ukrainian acting Prime Minster Yatsenyuk and vows to 'stand with Ukraine' in its conflict with Russia 2014 Event Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union 2014 Event New Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces plans to cut government spending and use the funds to decrease taxes on individuals and regional businesses; Italy's unemployment rate increased 0.2 percent in January to 12.9 percent 2014 Event 39-year-old Former Florentine mayor Matteo Renzi has been inaugurated as Prime Minister of Italy 2014 Event Lebanon's new Prime Minister Tammam Salam declares that he has been able to form a new cabinet, breaking the 10-month impasse between Hezbollah and Sunni rival parties; Salam intends to hold presidential elections on time 2014 Event Italy's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party 2014 Event Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign 2014 Event After eight years in a coma following a stroke in 2006, Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, dies at the age of 85 2014 Event In a coma since 2006, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reportedly in critical condition following renal failure 2013 Event Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan visits the Yasukuni Shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the shrine commemorates those who died while in the service of the Empire of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, which stored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 2013 Event Ukraine's former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko posted messages supporting the anti-government protesters who toppled the last status of Vladimir Lenin on her website, calling on suporters to keep up their demands 2013 Event A meeting between Pope Francis and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is held at the Vatican; discussions include Iran's nuclear program among other global affairs 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 Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2013 Event Australia's outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces he isn't seeking re-election as the leader of the Labor Party 2013 Event Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces a plan to help settle Papua New Guinea asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat 2013 Event Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will welcome it's first McDonald's early next year; the site will be run by the son of Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Henry Nguyen 2013 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, hoping the two sides could re-enter peace talks which have been on a three-year hiatus 2013 Event Economist Hazem Al Beblaw is selected as Egypt's interim Prime Minister 2013 Event Egypt names Mohamed ElBaradei Prime Minister 2013 Event The new leader of the Australian Labor Party is former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who won over incumbent Julia Gillard 2013 Event Following a corruption scandal, the Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, resigns 2013 Event Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, declares a state of emergency as the swollen Vltava River threaten the center of Prague 2013 Event Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister elect of Iceland, announces he will indefinitely extend January's freeze on European Union membership talks 2013 Event In Rome, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy, dies at age 94 2013 Event Britain's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, dies of a stroke at age 87 in London 2013 Event Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s 2013 Event In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister 2013 Event The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified 2013 Event Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan responds to air strikes on Syria, saying Israel's government is waging 'state terrorism' 2013 Event In a speech directed at Japan's Self-Defense Forces, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands 2013 Event Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, lays out his intention to renegotiate terms with the EU, and subsequent plan to offer a referendum on his country's withdrawal from the EU if a new deal is agreed 2013 Event The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, loses his position as President of the Euro Group; he is unseated by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance for the Netherlands 2012 Event Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leaves the hospital after undergoing minor surgery to remove a tumor 2012 Event Following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Monti, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament 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 Following controversial elections, Ukraine's Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov and his government, resign en masse 2012 Event Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister 2012 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron announces Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland as the location for the 39th G8 summit in June 2013 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Event In Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced plans to pay for a new education fund with a new 'sin' tax on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling 2012 Event The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post 2012 Event Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the MEP for Belgium voice concerns that the Flemish N-VA party and the far right are 'the same'; N-VA responds by saying their criticism is 'gratuitous' 2012 Event A leadership ballot held by the Democratic Party of Japan is won by Japan's Prime Minster, Yoshihiko Noda 2012 Event After not being seen for weeks, Ethiopia's long-term Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi dies of a mystery illness 2012 Event Ivica Dacic is officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia 2012 Event Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, suggests government spending cuts will be required until the end of the decade 2012 Event Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili 2012 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa 2012 Event Romania's USL, or Social-Liberal Union Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania 2012 Event Greece Prime Minister Lucas Papademos resigns, calling for a new election within a month 2012 Event After a power struggle within his government, Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns 2012 Event In Seville, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy is reelected head of the Popular Party 2012 Event Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign due to major social and political unrest in the country 2012 Event On Australia Day nearly 200 indigenous protesters surround a restaurant in Canberra, trapping Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, opposition leader inside 2012 Event Jamaica's new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announces the country will become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state 2012 Event Queen Elizabeth II appoints John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, and artist David Hockney, to the Order of Merit 2011 Event Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's proposed austerity measures are debated by the Italian senate 2011 Event After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord 2011 Event In Belgium, Parti Socialiste leader Elio di Rupo is set to become Prime Minister, pending approval by the parties' conventions and definition of the cabinet makeup 2011 Event In Bangkok, Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is hospitalized with suspected food poisoning 2011 Event Protesters storm the national Parliament in Kuwait; Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and his cabinet, resign 2011 Event Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister 2011 Event Parliament gives the new Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos a vote of confidence, opening the doors for national unity to help restore financial stability in Greece 2011 Event Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister 2011 Event In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis 2011 Event Greece swears in its new Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos 2011 Event Two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban are indicted in Pakistan for murdering Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto 2011 Event The Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou receives a no-confidence motion against him after failing to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout 2011 Event Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, reveals it is impossible to protect Bangkok from flooding; calls the floods a 'national crisis' 2011 Event Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister 2011 Event Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election 2011 Event The National Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature, approves Yoshihiko Noda as its new Prime Minister 2011 Event Nepal's Parliament elects Unified Communist Party leader Baburam Bhattarai as Prime Minister 2011 Event Riots in England continue; Prime Minister David Cameron hires U.S. law enforcement officer Bill Bratton to advise on dealing with gang-related violence 2011 Event Thailand's parliament officially elects Yingluck Shinawatra as Prime Minister of Thailand; Yingluck is Thailand's first female Prime Minister 2011 Event Vietnam re-elects Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung 2011 Event Australia's Prime Minster Julia Gillard introduces details of plan to implement a carbon tax 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, confirms the United Kingdom is sending Apache attack helicopters to assist the 2011 Libyan uprising 2011 Event In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested 2011 Event An investigation is launched by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gillani to determine how bin Laden lived undetected in Abbottabad 2011 Event Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visits areas devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011 Event Exiles in Tibet vote for a new Prime Minister, and also for 43 members of the Tibetan parliament 2011 Event Speaking in Cardiff, Wales, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the U.K., declares war on 'enemies of enterprise' 2011 Event Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas 2011 Event Lawmakers in Nepal vote to elect a new Prime Minister 2011 Event Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces he will leave politics soon after the Presidential elections are held 2010 Event Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad publicly declares Palestinians have changed; they are now fully committed to non-violence 2010 Event Rallies protesting constitutional abuses by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, Russia 2010 Event Hezbollah members are indicted for killing Lebanon�s former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing 2010 Event David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, embarks on an official visit aimed at building closer economic ties to the People's Republic of China 2010 Event In Italy, a package at the Bologna Airport, addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames during an inspection by police 2010 Event Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat 2010 Event Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation 2010 Event Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejects demands by Thai protesters to dissolve Parliament in 30 days 2010 Event In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there 2010 Event Gordon Brown, United Kingdom's Prime Minister, gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry 2009 Event Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi is knocked to the ground and hit in the face after a political rally in Milan, Italy 2009 Event Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi 2009 Event At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed 2009 Event Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2009 Event Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine 2008 Event Taro Aso becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan 2008 Event Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia 2006 Event Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan 2006 Event Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea 2006 Event Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years 2006 Event Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke 2004 Event Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted 2003 Death Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2000 Death Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80 1998 Death Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies 1998 Death Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies 1998 Death Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies 1998 Death Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies 1997 Death George Chambers, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1981 - 1986, dies 1997 Death Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies 1997 Death Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway 1989 - 1990, dies 1997 Death Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada 1974 - 1979, dies 1997 Death Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1945 - 1946, 1975, 1976, dies 1997 Death Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92 1997 Death Muhammad Fadhel, Prime Minister of Iraq 1953 - 1954, dies 1997 Death Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1959 - 1960, dies 1997 Event Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. 1997 Event 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life 1997 Death Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana 1953, 1957 - 1964, dies 1997 Death Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister, PNP, 1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992, dies 1997 Death Milton Cato, Prime Minister of San Vincent and Grenadines 1979 - 1984, dies 1997 Death Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies 1996 Death Stanko Todorov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1971 - 1981, dies 1996 Death Babrak Karmal, Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1980 - 1981, dies 1996 Death Junius Richard Jayawardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1977 - 1978, dies at 90 1996 Death Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morroco 1979 - 1983, dies 1996 Death Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1996 Death Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63 1996 Death Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria 1979 - 1984, dies 1996 Death Michel Debre, Prime Minister of France in 1959 - 1962, dies 1996 Death Andreas George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece 1981 - 1989, 1993 - 1996, dies at 76 1996 Death Janaki Ramachandran, Prime Minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies 1996 Death Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies 1996 Death Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies 1996 Death Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungry 1965 - 1967, dies at 85 1996 Death Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies 1996 Death N T Rama Rao, Prime Minister of Andhra Pradesh India 1983 - 1984, 1984 - 1989, 1994 - 1995, dies 1995 Death Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 1995 Event Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress 1995 Death Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1995 Death Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1974 - 1975, dies at 68 1995 Death Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of Britain 1963 - 1964, dies 1995 Death Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1975 - 1976, dies at 84 1995 Death Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1995 Death Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1977-79), dies 1995 Death Vieno J Sukselainen, Prime Minister of Finland 1959 - 1961, dies 1995 Death U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma 1948 - 1956, 1957 - 1958, 1960 - 1962, dies 1994 Death Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies 1994 Death Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Death Yao Yilin, Vice Prime Minister of China 1979, dies 1994 Death Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies 1994 Death Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Death Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies 1994 Death Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies 1993 Death Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies 1993 Death Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1993 Death Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67 1993 Death Hedi Amira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia 1970 - 1980, dies 1993 Death Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch Prime Minister, social democrat, 1965 - 1969, dies 1993 Death Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France 1957, dies 1993 Death Rene Pleven, Prime Minister of France 1950 - 1951, 1951 - 1952, dies 1992 Death Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister of Laos 1975 - 1991, dies 1992 Death Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal 1974, dies 1992 Event John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 Event P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica 1992 Death Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 1992 Death Menachem Begin, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, Nobel 1979, dies at 85 1992 Death Ali Amini, Prime Minister of Iran 1961 - 1962, dies 1992 Event George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1992 Death Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies 1991 Death Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies 1991 Death Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated 1991 Death Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium 1952 - 1954, dies 1991 Death Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1991 Death Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia 1952 - 1974, dies 1991 Death Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1990 Death Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 - 1970, dies 1990 Death Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies 1990 Event Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Event Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe 1990 Death Terence O'Neil, lord/Prime Minister of Ulster 1963 - 1969, dies 1990 Death Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies 1990 Death Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese Prime Minister 1945, dies 1989 Event Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1988 Event Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan 1988 Death Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland 1948 - 1958, dies at 101 1988 Death Georgy M. Malenkov, Prime Minister of U.S.S.R. 1953 - 1955, dies at 86 1988 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century 1988 Death Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972, dies at 82 1987 Event Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term 1987 Death Errol W. Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados 1961 - 1976, dies at 67 1986 Death [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1957 - 1963, dies at 92 1986 Event Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns 1986 Event Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 1986 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 Event Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme 1986 Death Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 1984 Event Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi 1984 Event Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1984 Event Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1984 Death Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1984 Event Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner 1984 Event Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1983 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation 1983 Event Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law 1983 Event Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) 1983 Event British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Event Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1982 Event Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years 1982 Event Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster 1982 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington 1981 Death Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1981 Death Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Event Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1981 Death Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79 1981 Event Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC 1980 Death Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 1980 Death Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash 1980 Event Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness 1980 Event Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname 1979 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain 1979 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1978 Event India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1978 Death Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister 1969 - 1974, dies in Jerusalem at 80 1978 Event Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1978 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Death Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died 1978 Death Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1978 Event Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Event Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister 1977 Event Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India 1977 Event Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1976 Event Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns 1976 Event Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England 1976 Death Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 1975 Event Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) 1975 Event Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1974 Event Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 1973 Death Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923 - 1965, dies at 89 1973 Death Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1973 Event Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman 1972 Death Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 1972 Event Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar 1970 Event Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1969 Event Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister 1968 Event Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in New York City 1968 Death Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Death Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1966 Event Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain 1966 Event Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1965 Event Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by Prime Minister Ian D Smith 1965 Birthday Karen Sillas, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Prime Suspect 1965 Death Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90 1963 Death Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya 1963 Death Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 1962 Death Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil 1962, dies at 52 1961 Event John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 Death Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 1961 Death Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62 1961 Death Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1949 - 1957, dies at 67 1960 Birthday James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day 1960 Event Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show 1960 Death Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1960 Death Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered Prime Minister Sturgkh, dies at 80 1959 Death Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1959 Death Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1958 Event Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa 1958 Death Pierre-etienne Flandin, French Prime Minister 1934 - 1935, dies at 69 1957 Event Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain 1956 Event Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary 1956 Event Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) 1956 Birthday Jan Peter Balkenende, born in Biezelinge, Netherlands, politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party 1955 Birthday Sam Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Prime Risk, Savages 1955 Birthday Dimitra Papandreau, born in Greece, wife of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreau 1955 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1954 Event Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt 1953 Event Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion retires 1953 Birthday Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Birthday Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- 1953 Birthday Guy Verhofstadt, born in Dendermonde, Belgium, politician, liberal, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium 1999 - 2008, member, European Parliament 1952 Birthday Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, second President of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of Russia 1952 Birthday Hun Sen, born in Peam Koh Sna, Cambodia, politician, Cambodian People's Party, Prime minister of Cambodia, governed since the 1979 overthrow of the Khmer Rouge 1952 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Event Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher 1951 Event Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1951 Death Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1951 Birthday Bertie Ahern, Dublin Ireland, Prime Minister of Ireland, 1997 - 2008 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Birthday Gordon Brown, born in Govan, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former television journalist 1950 Death John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Event Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR 1949 Birthday Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister 1949 Birthday Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008 1949 Event Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1948 Death Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1948 Death Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64 1948 Event William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada 1948 Event "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1947 Birthday John Bruton, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland 1945 Birthday Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time 1945 Death Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/Prime Minister 1937 - 1939, 1940 - 1941, commits harakiri 1945 Death Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1945 Event Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1945 Birthday Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006 1945 Event Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister 1945 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Event Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki 1944 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 Birthday Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1984-89 1944 Birthday Quentin Davies, born in Oxford, England, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford 1987 - 1997, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Prime Minister, Gordon Brown 1944 Birthday Said Musa, born in San Ignacio, Belize, lawyer, politician, People's United Party, Fifth Prime Minister of Belize 1943 Death Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1943 Birthday Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister Solomon Islands 1943 Birthday John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1942 Birthday Sandy Gilmour, Montclair, New Jersey, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday 1941 Event Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1941 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 Event Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence 1941 Death Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 1940 Death Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 1940 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1940 Event British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission 1940 Event Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks 1940 Event Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) 1940 Event Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 1940 Event Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain 1940 Event Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege 1939 Event Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Birthday Brian Mulroney, P-C, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 - 1993 1938 Event British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1937 Event Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania/begins spread of Judaism 1937 Death James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1937 Event Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England 1936 Birthday John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday 1936 Death Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister 1918 - 1923, 1929 - 1933, dies 1934 Birthday Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1986 - 1991, 1994 - 1996 1934 Death Jules Renkin, Belgian Prime Minister 1931 - 1932, dies 1934 Birthday Sam Donaldson, born in El Paso, Texas, ABC White House correspondent, Prime Time 1933 Birthday Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine 1933 Birthday Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1930 Birthday Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France 1930 Death Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85 1930 Birthday Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1975 - 1983 1930 Birthday Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister of Bahamas, 1967 - 1992 1929 Birthday Robert J L Hawke, Lab, Prime Minister Australia, 1983 - 1991 1929 Death Furst Bernhard von Bulow, Prime Minister Prussia 1900 - 1909, dies at 80 1928 Birthday Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, Prime Minister of Italy, 1988 - 1989 1928 Event Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101 1927 Birthday Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated 1926 Birthday Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland 1925 Birthday Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 1924 Event Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England 1923 Death Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 1923 Birthday Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister 1923 Event Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK 1921 Death Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 1920 Birthday Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 - 1920 Birthday Errol Walton Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados, DLP, 1966 - 1976, 1986 - 1987 1919 Birthday Kiichi Miyazawa, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, politician, 78th Japanese Prime Minister 1919 Birthday Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1918 Death Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1918 Death Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister 1896 - 1911, dies 1918 Birthday Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1916 Birthday Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74 1916 Birthday [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76 1915 Birthday Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77 1915 Birthday Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 1915 Birthday Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979 - 1990 1913 Birthday Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978 1913 Birthday Kofi Busia, born in Wenchi, Ghana, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Catholic, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972 1912 Birthday James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79 1910 Birthday Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil, 1962 1909 Death Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 1908 Birthday Edgar Faure, thriller writer/Prime Minister of France, 1952, 1952 - 1956 1908 Birthday Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67, ; supported U.S. in Vietnam 1908 Birthday William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1971 - 1972 1905 Event Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes Prime Minister of England 1905 Birthday Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium, 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972 1904 Death Peter Prime Minister Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76 1903 Birthday Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64 1902 Death Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 1902 Death Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister 1866, dies 1901 Birthday Achmed Sukarno, born in Java, Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1945 - 1967 1898 Birthday Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74 1897 Death Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, murdered at 69 1897 Birthday Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57 1896 Death Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (C), dies 1896 Event Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister 1895 Birthday Levi Eshkol, Sjkolnik, Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69 1894 Birthday [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63 1894 Birthday Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of Spanish Republic, 1936 - 1939 1893 Birthday Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, Prime Minister of China PR, 1949 - 1976 1893 Death John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 1893 Birthday Sidney Holland, New Zealand, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949 - 1957 1886 Birthday David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel, 1948 - 1953, 1955 1886 Birthday Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland, PvdA, 1948 - 1958, Indonesia, AOW 1884 Birthday Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II 1883 Birthday Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 1878 Birthday Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925 - 1928 1874 Birthday Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Birthday Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65 1874 Birthday Arthur Meighen, Canada, Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Birthday Arthur Meighen, C, 9th Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Birthday Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, Prime Minister of Poland, 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926 1871 Birthday Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944 1869 Birthday Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40 1867 Birthday Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 1866 Birthday James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35 1862 Birthday Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919 1858 Birthday Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23 1853 Birthday Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Birthday Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony 1849 Birthday Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia, 1900 - 1903 1848 Death William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 Birthday Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration 1847 Birthday Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister, 1894 - 1895 1844 Birthday John S D Thompson, C, 4th Prime Minister of Canada, 1892 - 1894 1844 Birthday Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, New Zealand prime minister, 1884-87 1836 Birthday Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08 1830 Birthday Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902 1822 Birthday Alexander MacKenzie, L, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, 1873 - 1878 1815 Birthday John A. MacDonald, C, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, 1867 - 1873 1809 Birthday William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94 1806 Death William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain 1783 - 1806, dies at 46 1804 Birthday Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80 1804 Death Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1799 Birthday Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 1788 Death Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 1782 Birthday Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28 1779 Birthday William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41 1778 Birthday Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1770 Birthday Earl of Liverpool, C, British Prime Minister, 1812-27 1770 Birthday George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827 1770 Birthday George Canning, C, British Prime Minister, 1827 1769 Birthday Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister, C, 1828-30 1768 Birthday Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35 1764 Birthday Charles Earl Grey, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1830-34 1762 Birthday Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12 1759 Birthday Baron Grenville, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1806-07 1757 Birthday Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, C, British Prime Minister, 1801-04 1738 Birthday Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09 1735 Event Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street 1732 Birthday Frederick North, C, British Prime Minister, 1770-82 1730 Event Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min) 1730 Birthday Marquess of Rockingham, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1765-66, 1782 1723 Death Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent 1715 - 1723, Prime Minister 1723, dies 1723 Birthday Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet 1712 Birthday George Grenville, British Prime Minister, 1763-65 1712 Death Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 1702 Death Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 1676 Birthday Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42 1674 Death Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English Prime Minister 1660 - 1667, dies at 65 1661 Death Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1641 Death Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 1621 Death Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 1612 Death Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 1612 Death Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48 1596 Death John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1566 Death John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1563 Birthday Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612 1560 Birthday Maximilien de Bethune, duke of Sully/baron of Rosny/Prime Minister of France 1553 Event Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1494 Birthday John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister
