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 Intl, 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 Czech
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)
1955 Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N.
1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1954 Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP 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 1924-52), 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, FCC chairman
1944 Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission
1944 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman, Werelddambond FMJD
1942 Nigel Walmsley, chairman, Carlton U.K. Television
1941 Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman, Democratic Party
1940 Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera
1940 Brian Mawhinney, chairman, British Conservative Party
1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman, South Africa Prog Fed 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 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 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security and Exchange Commission
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 William J Crowe, Jr., Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff
1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office
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 NZ, 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 [Jacob AW] 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 Hart, Rep-D-NJ, /1st chairman of Com 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, Fren Nat 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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