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2001 Harold Stassen, perennial presidential candidate/politician, resigned as governor of Minnesota to enlist for WWII, dies at 93

1991 J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.

1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM

1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff

1973 Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned

1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams

1958 Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1953 John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War


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