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1996 Clay Jones, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener, dies at 72
1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63 1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 1995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76 1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee 1994 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies 1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies 1994 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49 1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83 1993 French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86 1993 Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 1992 Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident 1992 William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53 1992 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies 1991 Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies 1991 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies 1990 Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83 1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia 1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats) 1989 Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies 1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies 1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party 1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel 1986 Jacob A. W. Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81 1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 1985 John B Kelly, Jr., chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57 1983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon 1982 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed 1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament 1981 Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament 1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament 1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II 1977 RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 1976 Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International 1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 1975 Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm 1975 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78 1974 Stephen Gill Spottswood, U.S. bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77 1974 Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62 1972 Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies 1972 S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee 1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee 1971 Arthur B Springarn, U.S. NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93 1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1969 Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO 1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84 1967 Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51 1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student 1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating 1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament 1964 Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman 1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies 1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80 1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" 1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor 1960 Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60) 1957 Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1955 Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party 1954 Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. 1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP 1954 Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism 1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the U.S.S.R. 1952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO 1952 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL 1952 William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79 1952 Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies 1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman, 1989-91 1951 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65 1951 Robert Mark, U.S. chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41 1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered 1950 Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES 1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 1948 Reed Hundt, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Federal Communications Commission chairman, 1993 - 1997, advisor to McKinsey & Company 1944 Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission 1944 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman, Werelddambond FMJD 1943 Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust 1942 Nigel Walmsley, chairman, Carlton U.K. Television 1941 Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman, Democratic Party 1941 Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1940 Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera 1940 Brian Mawhinney, chairman, British Conservative Party 1940 James Blyth, born in Britain, businessman, head of defense sales for Ministry of Defense, chairman, London Business School, CEO, The Boots Company 1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman, South Africa Progressive Federal Party, 1979-86 1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman 1937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman 1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman, S G Warburg and Co 1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party 1935 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer 1934 John Robertson, deputy chairman, Barclays de Zoete Wedd 1934 J Micheal McCloskey, environmentalist/chairman, Sierra Club 1933 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman 1933 Alan Hardcastle, chairman, Lloyds Regulatory Board 1933 David Rowland, chairman, Lloyd's 1932 Peter John Swales, football club chairman 1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) 1932 Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1932 John Clement, chairman, Unigate Group 1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France 1931 Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council 1931 Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council 1931 David Montgomery, chairman, British Forestry Commission 1930 Clayton K. Yeutter, Nebraska, U.S. trade rep/Republican National chairman 1930 Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88 1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1930 William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation, London University 1930 A N Solomons, chairman, Singer and Friedlander 1929 Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall 1929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security and Exchange Commission 1929 Bill Walker, born in Dundee, Scotland, politician, deputy chairman, Scottish Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire 1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1927 Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman 1927 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74 1927 Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman, 1922 Committee 1927 Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman, Mirror Group 1927 Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman, National Westminster Bank 1927 Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman, Royal College of Art 1926 Brian Howard, deputy chairman, Marks and Spencer 1926 Charles Tidbury, former chairman, Whitbread and Company 1926 Clyde Walcott, cricketer, one of the three W's, later ICC chairman 1925 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee 1925 Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee, 1985-95 1925 Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania 1925 William J Crowe, Jr., Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff 1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1923 Clay Jones, born in England, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener 1923 Stanley Orme, Chairman, British Labour Party 1923 Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress 1922 Brian Young, Chairman, Christian Aid 1922 Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87 1922 David Orr, deputy chairman, Inchcape, CEO, British Council, Unilever 1921 Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand, 1975-84, chairman, IMF 1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman, International Olympic Committee 1919 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman, House of Lords 1917 Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet 1914 Clifford Irving, Chairman, Isle of Man Government 1914 Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman, Comm House of Lords 1914 Archibald J Gumede, South Africa ANC member/chairman, UDF 1913 Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman, Anti-Apartheid 1912 Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies 1912 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch soc dem chairman, 1965-69 1911 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader 1911 Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman 1908 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman, Club of Rome 1908 Christian GK Baeta, Togolese chairman, International Mission Council 1907 Ray C Bliss, R, Ohio State Republican Chairman 1906 William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank, 1951-70 1904 J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman, KRO, 1938-45 1904 Jaap Burger, chairman, PvdA 1904 Arthur F. Burns, economist/chairman, Federal Reserve Board 1903 George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in New York City 1901 Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman, Feyenoord 1899 Ferhat Abbas, Algerian pharmacist/MP chairman, 1962-63 1896 Samuel Gonard, chairman, International Red Cross 1895 Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman, SPD, 1893 Edward J. Hart, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1935 - 1955, 1st chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities 1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1888 Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman, EGKS 1885 Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party 1885 Henri Velge, 1st chairman, Belgian Council of State 1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention 1883 Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder, Daily Trouw, chairman, ARP 1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council 1880 Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic chairman, 1st Chamber 1862 Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman, SDAP 1804 Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 1796 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46 1784 Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 1749 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman, National Convention 1716 Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council 1671 Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62 1608 Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military |
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