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2006 Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan

2006 Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea

2006 Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years

2006 Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke

2004 Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted

2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80

1998 Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies

1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies

1997 Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies

1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92

1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.

1997 Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies

1996 Janaki Ramachandran, Prime Minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies

1996 Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies

1996 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies

1995 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress

1995 Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45

1995 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79

1995 Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1977-79), 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

1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

1992 Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies

1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46

1991 Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46

1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century

1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term

1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns

1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel

1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at 66

1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation

1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands

1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster

1982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb

1981 Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79

1981 Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain

1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo

1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait

1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt

1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister

1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir

1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman

1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar

1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister

1968 Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in New York City

1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister

1965 Karen Sillas, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Prime Suspect

1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97

1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya

1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda

1960 James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day

1960 Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show

1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

1955 Sam Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Prime Risk, Savages

1953 Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997-

1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb

1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher

1949 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister

1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time

1947 John Bruton, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland

1945 Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time

1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin

1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1984-89

1943 John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97

1942 Sandy Gilmour, Montclair, New Jersey, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday

1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks

1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain

1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege

1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden

1937 James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71

1936 John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday

1934 Sam Donaldson, born in El Paso, Texas, ABC White House correspondent, Prime Time

1933 Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine

1933 Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1930 Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France

1930 Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85

1926 Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland

1925 Margaret Thatcher, Grantham England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979-90

1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister

1918 Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1916 Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74

1916 [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76

1915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77

1915 Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979-90

1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978

1912 James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79

1909 Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73

1903 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64

1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48

1898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74

1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57

1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister

1895 Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69

1894 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63

1874 Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65

1869 Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40

1867 Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37

1866 James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35

1858 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23

1848 William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69

1848 Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration

1847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1894-95

1844 Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister, 1884-87

1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08

1830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902

1809 William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94

1804 Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80

1804 Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies

1799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68

1788 Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65

1782 Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28

1779 William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41

1778 Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories

1770 Earl of Liverpool, C, British Prime Minister, 1812-27

1770 George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827

1770 George Canning, C, British Prime Minister, 1827

1769 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister, C, 1828-30

1768 Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35

1764 Charles Earl Grey, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1830-34

1762 Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12

1759 Baron Grenville, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1806-07

1757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, C, British Prime Minister, 1801-04

1738 Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09

1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street

1732 Frederick North, C, British Prime Minister, 1770-82

1730 Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)

1730 Marquess of Rockingham, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1765-66, 1782

1723 Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet

1712 George Grenville, British Prime Minister, 1763-65

1676 Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42

1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53

1596 John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66

1566 John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies

1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612

1494 John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister



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