2004 The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate
2000 The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president
2000 The Republican party nominates George W. Bush to run for president
1997 Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92
1996 Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78
1996 Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
1996 Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
1995 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S.
1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
1994 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1994 Jerry Rubin, U.S. anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56
1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
1993 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1993 Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election
1993 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72
1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies
1991 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1991 U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of party
1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1990 Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1990 U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1989 East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats)
1989 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1989 FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist
1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1988 Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary
1988 Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party"
1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1987 Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
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
1986 Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73
1984 Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
1984 Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
1984 Emil Coleman, orchestra leader, Arthur Murray Party
1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president
1984 Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1983 Turkey Turgut zals Moederland party wins elections
1983 U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1983 Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress, Party of Five
1982 Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1982 Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
1982 Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79
1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1981 Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71
1980 Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1980 National Black Independent Party forms
1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
1980 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1979 Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1979 Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
1979 Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
1979 Andrew Keegan, actor, Step by Step, Party of Five
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72
1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 "Party with Comden and Green" closes at Morosco New York City after 92 performances
1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 "Party with Comden and Green" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 92 performances
1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1974 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1974 Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1973 Neve Campbell, actress, Party of 5, Scream
1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1973 Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S.
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973 Michael Goorjian, actor, Party Of Five
1972 Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
1972 Jeremy London, actor, I'll Fly Away, Party of Five
1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party
1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
1971 Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1968 Kevin Telles, actor, Party Camp
1968 Tisha Campbell, Newark, New Jersey, actress, Gina-Martin, House Party
1968 Vanessa Vadim, Paris, daughter of Jane Fonda/actress, Last Party
1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 Scott Wolf, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Broken Arrow, Party of 5
1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1967 CBS radio cancels "House Party"
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1967 Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51
1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1966 Matthew Fox, born in Crowheart, Wyoming, actor, Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm
1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party
1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1965 Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party
1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
1965 Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1964 Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1964 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French Communist Party, dies at 64
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero
1962 India Congress Party wins elections
1961 Reginald Hudlin, director, House Party
1961 Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host, Fame, Party Machine
1961 Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party
1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1961 U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1961 Tawny Kitaen, SD California, actress, Bachelor Party, Witchboard
1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party
1961 Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59
1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1959 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair
1959 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
1959 "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances
1959 "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 44 performances
1959 Dianne Brill, born in Tampa, fashion designer and party girl, Queen of the Night
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances
1958 "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances
1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st sect of Communist Party
1957 Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker, World Party
1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70
1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1956 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1956 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms
1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary
1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy
1956 Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1955 Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1955 Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1955 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1954 "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC
1954 Brinke Stevens, [Charlene Brinkman] California, actr, Slumber Party Massacre
1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party
1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria
1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1952 Elayne Boosler, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedienne, Broadway Baby, Party of One
1952 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)
1952 Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1951 Johnny Rodriquez, U.S., actor, Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party
1951 Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer, Howard Stern New Years Party
1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1950 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win
1950 T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in New York City
1949 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1948 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
1948 Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City
1947 Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader, South Africa Democratic Party
1947 Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
1947 Hungarian Communist Party wins election
1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1946 NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1946 Brian Cox, actor, Killer Party, Manhunter
1946 Lesley Gore, Tenafly, New Jersey, singer, It's My Party
1946 SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1946 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1946 Kathleen Noone, actress, All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party
1945 U.S. Communist Party forms
1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1944 Rita Mae Brown, actress, Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre
1944 Jennifer Salt, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party
1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 U.S. Communist Party dissolves
1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1943 Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 Aron Kincaid, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party
1943 Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1942 "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen, South Africa Communist Party
1942 Neil Kinnock, Wales, leader, Labour Party
1941 Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman, Democratic Party
1941 Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1940 Brian Mawhinney, chairman, British Conservative Party
1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 Ricky Nelson, New Jersey, rock star, Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party
1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman, South Africa Prog Fed Party, 1979-86
1939 Judy Chicago, [Cohen], Chicago, artist, Dinner Party
1939 King and Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1937 Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer, Let's Have a Party
1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
1936 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1935 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1935 M. Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg, New York, actor, Wildcats, War Party
1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1934 "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
1933 German party Catholic Center disbands
1933 German social-democratic party, SPD, forbidden
1933 Austrian Communist Party banned
1933 Buddy Knox, born in Happy, Texas, rock vocalist, Party Doll, Lovey Dovey
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1933 Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD)
1933 James Goldsmith, Paris, France, corporate raider, Referendum Party
1933 Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party
1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1932 Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party, CDA
1931 John Macchia, California, actor, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party
1931 British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley
1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1930 David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
1930 Shirley Williams, co-founder, Social Democratic Party, labour minister
1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1929 Marilyn Clark, Spokane, Washington, actress, House of Party Beach
1929 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party
1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1928 Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress, Masquerade Party
1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies
1928 Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party
1928 George Grizzard, born in North Carolina, actor, Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica
1927 Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of South Africa Labour Party
1927 Mort Sahl, Montreal, comedian/political satirist/beatnik, Big Party
1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1926 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
1926 Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament, Dutch Lib Party
1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1925 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1925 Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip, South Afr Conserv Party
1925 Communist Party of Holland splits
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1925 Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1925 Estonia forbids communist Party
1925 British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party
1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party
1923 Stanley Orme, Chairman, British Labour Party
1923 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
1923 Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
1922 Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1921 Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party, 1968-69
1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1921 Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1921 Robert Q. Lewis, born in New York City, TV host, Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show
1921 Andries Treurnicht, [Dr. No], founder, South Africa Conservative Party
1920 Yugoslav government bans Communist Party
1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago
1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party
1920 U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920 Liam Cosgrave, leader, Fine Gael Party
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1919 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem party minister, CRM 1965-66
1919 Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber, Dutch Liberal Party
1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1919 Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1919 Jinx Falkenburg, Barcelona Spain, actress, Masquerade Party
1919 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1918 Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1918 Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms
1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party
1918 Buddy Weed, Ossining, New York, pianist, Penthouse Party
1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz)
1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader, Unionist
1916 John Young, actor/TV panelist, Masquerade Party
1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1914 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies
1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913 Edward Gierek, party leader, Polish CP
1913 National Woman's Party forms
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1912 Hendrik Koekoek, Dutch MP, Farmers Party
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1911 Sam Levenson, New York City, humorist, Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party
1909 Julio A Abraham, president, Democratic Party Bonaire
1909 Madge Evans, born in Manhattan, New York City, TV panelist, Masquerade Party
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1908 Ray Carter, born in Chicago, Illinois, orch leader, Arthur Murray Dance Party
1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1907 Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 Harm van Riel, Dutch politician, Dutch Liberal Party
1906 Kathryn Murray, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, dancer, Arthur Murray Dance Party
1906 British Labour Party organizes
1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1904 Juan E Yrausquin, founder, Party of Patriot Arubans, /minister
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader, 1976-1983
1903 Frank Parker, born in New York City, singer, Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party
1903 Ilka Chase, born in New York City, actress, Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien
1903 Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1902 Michail A Suslov, Russian party ideologist
1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1900 Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party and Socialistenbond merge
1900 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party
1900 U.S. Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1900 British Labour Party forms
1900 Labour Party forms in England
1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1895 Arthur Murray, born in New York City, dancer, Arthur Murray Dance Party
1895 Arthur Murray, dancer, Arthur Murray's Dance Party
1895 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, founder, Peruvian Aprista Party
1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1894 Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy
1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1892 Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian party leader/premier, 1952-53
1891 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1888 Kathrin Mansfield, NZ writer, Aloe, Garden Party
1888 Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd VP, 1941-45, /founder Progressive Party
1888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1885 Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party
1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP
1884 Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in U.S.
1882 Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder, Calvinist party
1880 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder, National-India Party
1878 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate
1876 Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60
1874 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1874 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer, The World a Dancing Party
1872 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1871 Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist, Sparta Party
1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party
1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party
1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1869 Marcel Cachin, co-founder, French Communistic Party
1866 Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP party
1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party
1860 Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1859 Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist, founded Federalist Party
1857 Jose Celso Barbosa, born in Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1856 1st national meeting of Republican Party in Pittsburgh
1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisconsin
1854 1st meeting of Republican Party in Michigan
1854 Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader, Irish Unionist Party
1854 Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
1843 Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1839 1st U.S. anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1837 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder, CVP
1837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader, CHU
1836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
1836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York)
1813 Zachariah Chandler, U.S., merchant/politician, found Republican Party
1803 Samuel Adams, U.S. revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81
1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1773 Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
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