1998 Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/President (1961-63), dies
1998 Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
1997 Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies
1997 George Chambers, PM of Trinidad and Tobago (1981-86), dies
1997 Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies
1997 Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies
1997 Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies
1997 Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies
1997 Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1997 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1997 Jagan Guyanes, PM of Guyana (1953, 57-64), dies
1997 Michael Manley, Jamaican PM (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
1997 Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent and Grenadines (1979-84), dies
1996 Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1996 Babrak Karmal, PM of Afghanistan (1980-81), dies
1996 Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1996 Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies
1996 Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
1996 Robert Bourassa, PM of province of Quebec (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
1996 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, PM of Algeria (1979-84), dies
1996 Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies
1996 Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
1996 Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies
1996 Karoly Grosz, PM of Hungry (1987-88), dies at 65
1995 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1995 Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1995 Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1995 Wallace Edward Rowling, PM of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
1995 Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
1995 Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
1995 U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
1994 Antoine Pinay, PM of France (1952-53), dies
1994 Antoine Pinay, French PM (1952)/foreign minister, dies at 102
1994 Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1994 Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM 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 Bahjat Talhouni, PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
1994 Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies
1993 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
1993 Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies
1993 Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993 Pierre Beregovoy, PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
1993 Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
1993 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch PM (social dem, 1965-69), dies
1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
1993 Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies
1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, PM of Laos (1975-91), dies
1992 Adelino Da Palma Carlos, PM of Portugal (1974), dies
1992 John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
1992 Heinz Kuhn, PM (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80
1992 Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1992 Ali Amini, PM of Iran (1961-62), dies
1992 Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1991 Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies
1991 Shapur Bahktiar, PM of Iran (1979), assassinated
1991 Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
1991 Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
1991 U.S. insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM
1990 Nguyen Van Tam, PM of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 Terence O'Neil, lord/PM of Ulster (1963-69), dies
1990 Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
1990 Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1989 Michael Joseph Tamboli, born in Eldesburg, Maryland, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio)
1988 Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
1988 Georgy M Malenkov, PM of U.S.S.R. (1953-55), dies at 86
1988 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82
1987 Errol W. Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1986 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1984 Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards
1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
1983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons)
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years
1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1981 Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1981 PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 Francisco Sa Carneiro, PM of Portugal (1980), dies in air crash
1980 Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM
1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1978 Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1978 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
1977 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 Chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs)
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1973 Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish PM (1923..65), dies at 89
1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
1972 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1957), dies at 75
1972 Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81
1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
1970 Prince Be, rapper, PM Dawn
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64
1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1965 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout)
1965 Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1961 Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39), dies at 73
1961 Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1961 Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM U.S.S.R.) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1960 Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1960 Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered PM Sturgkh, dies at 80
1959 PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59), assassinated at 60
1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
1958 Pierre-tienne Flandin, French PM (1934-35), dies at 69
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1956 PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
1955 Dimitra Papandreau, born in Greece, wife of Greek PM Andreas Papandreau
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes PM of Egypt
1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British PM
1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1951 Berty Ahern, Dublin Ireland, PM of Ireland, 1997-
1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1950 John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
1950 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York)
1945 Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri
1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1944 Colijn, Netherlands PM, buried
1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
1942 David Russell Lange, PM, L, NZ, 1984-89
1942 Graham Bright, private sec to British PM
1941 SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
1941 FRD and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
1941 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
1941 ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1940 Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/President (1936-39), dies at 60
1940 PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
1940 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
1939 Poland's president Moscicki and PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 Joe Clark, [Charles Joseph], P-C, 16th Canadian PM, 1979-80
1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist
1939 Brian Mulroney, P-C, 18th PM of Canada, 1984-93
1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1938 U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
1936 Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies
1935 John Swan, PM, Bermuda
1934 Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden, 1986-91, 94-
1934 Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies
1934 Jean Chretien, Canada PM, Lib, 1993-
1933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
1930 Edward Seaga, PM, Jamaica
1930 Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia, Liberal, 1975-83
1930 Lynden O Pindling, PM of Bahamas, 1967-92
1929 Robert J L Hawke, Lab, PM Australia, 1983-91
1929 Furst Bernhard von Bulow, PM Prussia (1900-09), dies at 80
1929 John Turner, born in Richmond, England, L, 17th Canadian PM, 1984
1928 Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy, 1988-89
1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101
1927 Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden, 1969-76, 1982-86, assassinated
1926 Lee Kuan Yew, PM, Singapore
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1924 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM, 1987-89
1923 Andrew Bonar Law, English PM (C), dies at 64
1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
1921 Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon
1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1921 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ger chancellor/PM (Prussia), dies at 64
1920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji, 1960-70, 70-, /President, 1994-
1920 Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados, DLP, 1966-76, 1986-87
1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM (-1917), assassinated by soldiers
1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM, 1972-74, convicted of bribe-taking
1918 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies
1917 Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM, 1966-77, 1980-84
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1916 Gough Whitlam, ALP, Australia, PM, 1972-75
1916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77
1916 Pierre Messmer, PM, France
1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1911 Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov
1910 Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, PM of Brazil, 1962
1910 Trygve Martin Bratteli, Norwegian PM, Labour, 1971-72, 1973-76
1908 Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France, 1952, 52-56
1908 Harold Holt, PM of Australia, 1966-67, ; supported U.S. in Vietnam
1908 William McMahon, PM of Australia, Liberal, 1971-72
1907 Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63
1905 Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
1905 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM, 1980-85
1905 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium, 1949, 1958-61, 1968-72
1904 Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM, 1960-72
1904 Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
1902 Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies
1902 Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM, 1953-55
1901 Achmed Sukarno, born in Java, PM of Indonesia, 1945-67
1901 Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974
1897 Antonio Canovas del Castillo, PM of Spain, murdered at 69
1897 Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957
1896 Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies
1895 John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM, C, 1957-63
1894 Robert Menzies, Australian PM, 1939-41, 1949-66
1894 Juan Negrin, PM of Spanish Republic, 1936-39
1893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China PR, 1949-76
1893 John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
1893 Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ, 1949-57
1892 Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM, 6 times, 1942-63
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM, 1947-64
1888 Milan Stoyadinovich, born in Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM, 1935-39
1886 David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel, 1948-53, 55
1886 Willem Drees, PM of Netherland, PvdA, 1948-58, /Indonesia, AOW
1885 John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM, Labor, 1941-45
1884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
1882 Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, L, 12th Canadian PM, 1948-57
1881 Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM, 1917
1880 Manuel Azana y Diaz, PM/president of 2nd Spanish republic, 1936-39
1878 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM, most of 1946-54
1878 Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand, 1925-28
1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King, L, 10th Canadian PM, 1921-30, 1935-48
1874 Winston Churchill, C, British PM, 1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953
1874 Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada, 1920, 21, 26
1874 Arthur Meighen, C, 9th PM of Canada, 1920-21, 1926
1874 Konstantin Pats, Estonian PM, 1921-23, 1932-33, dictator, 1933-40
1874 Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland, 1920-21, 1923, 1926
1873 Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM, 1924-26, 1929-42
1872 Albert P Sarraut, Fren Governor-General of Indo-China, 1911..19, /PM, 1933/36
1871 Pietro Badoglio, Italy, gen/Libya Governor, 1928-33, /PM of Italy, 1943-44
1870 Richard B. Bennett, C, 11th Canadian PM, 1930-35
1867 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM, 1944-47
1863 Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician
1862 Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa, 1910-19
1860 Raymond Poincare, France, president/PM, 1912
1854 Robert Laird Borden, C, 8th Canadian PM, 1911-20
1853 Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62
1849 Furst Bernhard HM von Bulow, German chancellor/Prussian PM, 1900-09
1849 Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia, 1900-03
1844 John S D Thompson, C, 4th PM of Canada, 1892-94
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, L, 7th Canadian PM, 1896-1911
1841 Georges Clemenceau, France, PM, 1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss
1835 Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM
1827 Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer
1822 Alexander MacKenzie, L, 2nd PM of Canada, 1873-78
1821 Charles Tupper, C, 6th Canadian PM, 1896
1821 John Abbott, born in Quebec, Canada, C, 3rd Canadian PM, 1891-92
1818 George Brown, Canada, publisher, Toronto Globe, PM, L, 1858
1815 John A. MacDonald, C, 1st PM of Canada, 1867-73
1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1806 William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
1792 John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM, 1846-52, 1865-66
1785 Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM, 1835-36
1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
1766 Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM, 1815-18, 1820-21
1759 William Pitt, the Younger, C, English PM, 1783-1801, 1804-06
1730 Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, Engl PM, 1765-76
1723 Philip, French duke of Orleans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
1712 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
1708 William Pitt the Elder, Whig, U.K. PM, 1756-61, 66-68, 'Great Commoner'
1702 Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61
1674 Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
1641 Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, PM of France, dies at 81
1632 Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-94, /founder, Tories
1621 Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43
1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
1612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48
1609 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM, 1660-67
1592 George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM, 1625-28
1560 Maximilien de Bethune, duke of Sully/baron of Rosny/PM of France
1553 PM John Dudley captured in Cambridge
421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
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