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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