1997 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
1995 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1995 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1995 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1994 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
1994 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
1994 Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
1993 Kakuei Tanaka, premier of Japan (1972-74), dies at 75
1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1993 Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
1993 Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
1993 Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
1993 Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1993 Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1992 Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1992 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
1992 Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1991 Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
1991 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago
1991 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
1991 Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
1991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
1991 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of U.S.S.R.
1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1990 Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece
1989 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
1989 Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
1989 Janos Kadar, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
1988 Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1988 Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86
1987 Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1987 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68
1987 Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
1987 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1987 Rene Levesque, Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65
1987 Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60), dies at 90
1987 Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the U.S.
1986 Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1986 Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85
1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1986 Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1986 Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan
1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1985 Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
1985 France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior
1985 Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1984 China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
1984 Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82
1983 Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
1983 Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1983 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 Israel premier Begin resigns
1983 Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
1983 Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan
1982 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1982 Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55), dies
1982 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
1981 Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV
1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns
1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
1980 Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
1980 Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal
1979 Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
1979 Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
1979 India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
1978 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
1978 Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1978 Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83
1978 Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares
1978 Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered
1978 Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1977 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1977 Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1977 Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
1977 Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
1977 Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
1977 Israel premier Rabin resigns
1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
1977 Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
1977 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
1977 Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1976 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
1976 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1976 Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
1975 Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69
1975 Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns
1975 Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77
1975 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
1975 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1975 Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65), dies at 58
1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1975 Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of U.S.S.R. (1955-58), dies at 79
1975 Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of Romania (1955-61), dies at 66
1975 Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1975 Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1974 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1973 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 Theo Lefevre, premier Belgium, dies
1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
1972 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/sect-gen (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73
1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
1971 Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch min of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry
1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian premier (1952..56), dies at 78
1970 Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
1970 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
1970 "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 West German chancellor and East German premier Willy Brandt meet
1970 Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1970 Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
1969 Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya
1969 Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies
1969 Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies at 73
1969 Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76
1968 Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1968 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
1967 Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1967 Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government
1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
1966 Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies
1966 Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier
1966 Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies
1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1966 Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85
1966 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61
1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
1965 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1965 Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary
1965 South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62
1965 Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered
1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1964 Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1964 Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam
1964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
1964 Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
1964 Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1964 Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1964 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69
1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79
1963 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1963 Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart
1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77
1963 Matya Rakosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71
1963 Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
1963 Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV
1962 Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1962 John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 John F. Kennedy dines with premier MacMillan in London
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1961 Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1961 India's premier Nehru arrives in New York
1961 Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1961 Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1961 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1961 Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76
1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S.
1961 Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1961 Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1961 Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34
1961 Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
1960 Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1960 President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo
1960 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1960 Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1960 Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
1959 U.S. premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1959 Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary
1959 Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
1959 Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
1958 Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1958 J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname
1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium
1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1958 French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st sect of Communist Party
1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1958 Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary
1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1957 Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72
1957 Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1956 Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67
1956 Pietro Badoglio, Premier of Italy (1943-44), dies at 85
1956 Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67
1956 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1956 Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1955 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88
1955 Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
1955 India premier Nehru visit U.S.S.R.
1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1955 Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him
1955 HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1955 Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51
1954 John Str˜dom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1954 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of U.S.S.R.
1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1953 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired
1953 Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary
1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1953 South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1953 Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
1953 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1953 Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties
1953 Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84
1952 Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier
1952 Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary
1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950 William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77
1949 Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
1949 Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR
1949 Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
1949 Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1949 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67
1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier
1949 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1947 Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80
1947 Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1947 Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier, 1993-
1946 Leon Blum elected French premier
1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1946 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over
1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender
1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945 Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1944 Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London
1944 Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35), dies
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
1944 Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier
1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S.
1944 British premier Churchill travels to Scotland
1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1944 General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France to meet Montgomery
1943 David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada, L, 1982-
1943 Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel)
1943 Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan
1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa
1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S.
1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
1942 James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76
1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1942 British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
1942 British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London
1942 President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C.
1942 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida
1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York
1941 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1941 Czech premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis
1941 Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
1941 Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore, 1990-
1941 Maria Liberia-Peters, premier of Dutch Antilles, 198?-93
1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1941 Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname
1941 Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies
1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
1940 Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
1940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1940 Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile
1940 Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1939 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian premier, 1981-82, 86-89, 90-
1939 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68
1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
1938 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
1938 British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich
1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies
1937 Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1937 Erskine Sandiford, premier, Barbados, 1987-94
1936 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1936 Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936 Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
1936 Wilfried Martens, premier, Belgium, 1979-81, 1981-92
1936 Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1936 Kennedy A. Simmonds, premier, St. Kitts and Nevis, 1983-95
1936 Manuel Azana becomes Spanish premier
1935 Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1935 Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89
1934 Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1934 Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74
1934 J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 Pedro Pires, premier, Cape Verde, 1975-91
1934 Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier, 1983-87
1934 Edithe Cresson, premier of France, 1991-92
1933 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1933 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1933 Paul, [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1933 Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain, 1976-81
1933 Robert Bourassa, born in Montreal, premier of Quebec, 1970-76, 1985-
1933 Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia
1932 Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1932 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1932 Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France
1932 Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1932 Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
1931 Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
1931 Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1931 Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1931 Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier, CDA, 1977-82
1931 Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan, 1989-91
1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
1930 Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1930 Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president, Sudan
1929 Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
1929 Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88
1929 Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress
1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1929 Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of U.S.S.R., 1985-1991
1929 French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe
1929 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1928 Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, premier of Kwazulu, Shaka Zulu
1928 Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1928 Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier, Netherland's Antilles
1928 Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75
1928 Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier, Pakistan
1927 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1927 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, premier of Poland, 1989-90
1926 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert
1926 Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1925 Pierre Beregovoy, French premier, 1992-93
1925 Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia, 1981-
1925 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1925 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1925 Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies
1925 Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo
1925 Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier
1925 Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier, Rhodesia
1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
1925 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1924 Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983-
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R.
1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
1924 Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe
1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1923 Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
1923 Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government
1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1923 Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
1923 Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown
1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
1923 Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles, NVP, 1973-77
1923 Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana, 1964-85
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1922 William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
1922 Rene Levesque, Quebec premier, 1976-85
1922 Anchor Jorgenson, premier of Denmark, 1972-82
1922 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia, 1970-77
1922 Yitzak Rabin, premier Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994
1922 Eric Gairy, premier, Grenada
1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1921 Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1921 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1921 Robert Muldoon, premier NZ, 1975-84, /chairman, IMF
1921 Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana, Bechuanaland
1921 P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India, 1991-
1920 Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos, Pathet Lao, 1991-92
1920 Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier, 1971-73
1919 Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68
1919 Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire
1919 Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies
1919 Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan, 1991-93
1919 Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1919 Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier, PVDA, 1973-77
1919 Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium, 1966-68, 1978-79
1919 [Douglas] Ian Smith, premier of Rhodesia, 1964-..
1919 Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1919 Andrea George Papandreou, Greek premier, 1981-89, 93-
1919 Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
1919 Giulio Andreotti, 7 x premier, Italy
1918 Konstantinos Mitsottakis, premier of Greece, 1990-
1918 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan, 1982-87
1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier, 1953, 1957-64
1918 Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Hungarian governor/premier, 1910-12
1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1917 Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles
1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
1917 Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier, 1963-65
1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1916 Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname
1916 Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta
1916 Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles, 1968-69
1916 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname, 1963-69
1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1915 Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier, KVP, 1967-71
1914 Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark, 1962-68, 71-72
1914 Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier, KVP, Mammoth Law
1914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63
1912 Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
1912 Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1912 August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1912 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 Janos Kadar, premier Hungary, 1956-58
1912 Heinz Kuhn, German premier, North-Rhine Westphalia
1912 Michel J-P Debre, premier of France, 1959-62
1912 Raymond Poincare becomes premier of France
1911 Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies
1911 Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies
1911 Pjotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11), murdered at 49
1911 Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president
1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1911 Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73
1911 Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland, 1947..70
1911 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia
1911 Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France
1911 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
1911 Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, premier, Queensland
1910 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1910 Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66
1909 Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
1909 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia, 1945-47
1909 Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
1908 Chivu Stoica, premier of Romania, 1955-61
1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1908 Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1907 Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles
1907 U Nu, premier Burma, 1948-58, 1960-62
1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan
1907 Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium, 1952-54
1907 Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
1907 Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier, 1968-69
1907 Roy Welensky, Premier, Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63
1906 Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France
1906 Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, 1968-74
1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1905 Guy Mollet, French socialist premier, 1956-57
1905 Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1905 Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1905 Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland
1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1905 Pierre Mendes-France, French Premier, 1954-55
1904 Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier, 1964-66
1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1904 Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier, 1964-80
1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1903 Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7
1903 Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark, 1947..55
1903 Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
1902 Leopold Figl, premier of Austria
1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1902 Louis J. M. Beel, premier of Netherland, 1946-48, 58-59
1902 Kalman Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71
1902 Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1901 Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1901 Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated
1901 Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63
1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1901 Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier, 1946-69
1901 Rene-Jean Pleven, French premier, 1950-52
1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, Nobel 1974
1901 Mario Scelba, premier Italy, 1954-55
1900 Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64
1900 Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland, 1956-81
1900 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1900 Jean Duvieusart, premier, Belgium 1950
1899 Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon, 1956-59
1899 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO, 1957-61
1898 Achiel H. Acker, born in Belgian premier, 1945-46, 1954-58
1897 Antonio Canovas del Castillo, premier of Spain, murdered at 69
1896 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1946-53
1896 Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan, 1957-60
1896 Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City)
1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
1896 Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India, 1977-79
1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1895 Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
1895 Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan, 1947-51
1895 Nikolai A. Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of U.S.S.R., 1955-58
1894 Willem Schermerhorn, Netherlands premier, 1945-46
1894 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece, 1944, 50-51
1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1894 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1893 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
1893 John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa, 1954-58
1893 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
1892 Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian party leader/premier, 1952-53
1891 Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, /minister of Foreign affairs
1891 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya opposition leader/1st premier, 1963-78
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