2014 Event Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign 2013 Event Italian government ministers belonging to Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party resign 2013 Event Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announces she will resign from her position to become the President of the University of California 2013 Event David Milliband announces plans to resign as Britain's Foreign Secretary and move to U.S. state of New York to head the International Rescue Committee 2013 Event Citing frail health, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation effective February 28, 2013; he is the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415 2012 Event Following controversial elections, Ukraine's Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov and his government, resign en masse 2012 Event Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign due to major social and political unrest in the country 2011 Event Protesters storm the national Parliament in Kuwait; Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and his cabinet, resign 2011 Event Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas 2011 Event President Mubarak asks his government to resign 1998 Event President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference 1993 Event Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign 1991 Event Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign 1990 Event George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees 1984 Event Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America 1974 Event President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 1973 Event Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign 1971 Event Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army 1968 Event Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) 1961 Event NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign 1959 Event Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox 1929 Event Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign 1879 Event Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign 1861 Event Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign 1832 Event John Calhoun becomes 1st Vice President to resign over differences with President Jackson 1569 Event Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
