2015 Event Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen, resigns in the midst of a scandal in which the company confessed to installing software in its cars for the last 7 years in order to fool emissions test devices while violating U.S. clean air standards Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns after a warrant is issued for his arrest on bribery charges; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado will take Perez Molina's place Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigns five days after his re-election to a fifth term; several FIFA officials were recently arrested in a corruption scandal, but Blatter has not been charged 2014 Event U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns; the resignation may be due to disagreements over current U.S. strategy concerning Islamic State militants and the conflict in Syria Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife Frustrated with the lack of progress in resolving the Syrian conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi resigns from his post as United Nations mediator Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union Italy's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party 2013 Event Following a corruption scandal, the Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, resigns Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf 2012 Event Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street Amidst controversy over the anti-doping scandal, Lance Armstrong resigns as chairman of LIVESTRONG, his anti-cancer charity Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C. Less than three years after accepting the position of Chairman of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, resigns Greece Prime Minister Lucas Papademos resigns, calling for a new election within a month Following the News International phone hacking scandal, James Murdock resigns as Chairman of BskyB After a power struggle within his government, Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns Co-founder of Yahoo!, Jerry Yang, resigns from the position of chief executive officer 2011 Event Boris Gryzlov, ally to Vladimir Putin and speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, resigns from his position Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis After losing a referendum on free school lunches, Seoul's mayor, Oh Se-hoon, resigns Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO Chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, resigns as a result of the News International phone hacking scandal In Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party's central committee National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigns after a scandal involving NPR executives 2010 Event The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, resigns Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns 2008 Event Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected 2006 Event Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense 2000 Event Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns 1998 Event New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach 1997 Event 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year 1996 Event Bob Dole, Senator-R-Kansas, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president 1995 Event Senator Bob Packwoord R-Oregon resigns rather than face expulsion Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns 1994 Event Bangladesh government of Zia resigns Italian government of Berlusconi resigns Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments Irish government of Reynolds resigns Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns Swedish government of Bildt resigns Kirgizie government resigns Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia Italian government of Ciampi resigns 1993 Event Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns 1992 Event WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns New York City police commisioner Brown resigns Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox 1991 Event NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns CIA director William H. Webster resigns Mo Udall, Representative-D-Arizona, resigns due to Parkinson disease 1990 Event Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti 1989 Event President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns 1988 Event Mario Biaggi, Representative-D-New York, convicted of racketeering resigns seat 1987 Event Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training 1986 Event Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1984 Event Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO 1983 Event Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns Israel premier Begin resigns 1982 Event Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns Bolivian government resigns Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands 1981 Event 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League Poland premier Jagielski resigns Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns 1980 Event Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns Belgium's Marten's government resigns 1979 Event Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns Iran government of Bazargan resigns Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns India premier Charan Singh resigns Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power 1978 Event CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Belgium government of Tindemans resigns Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair 1977 Event Portugal's premier Soares resigns Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns Israel premier Rabin resigns Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India 1976 Event Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976, resigns after scandal with Elizabeth Ray Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England British premier Harold Wilson resigns 1975 Event Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns Gunsmoke resigns the air Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years 1974 Event Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president Rumor's government in Italy resigns West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns 1973 Event Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam 1972 Event Belgium government of Eyskens resigns 1971 Event Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark 1970 Event Italian Rumor government resigns 1969 Event Italian Rumor government resigns French government of Couve de Murville resigns Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns Suriname government of Pengel resigns 1968 Event Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers 1967 Event Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam 1966 Event Harmel government in Belgium resigns 1965 Event Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets Dutch Marijnen government resigns 1964 Event President Segni of Italy resigns Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns Suriname governor A Currie resigns U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns 1963 Event British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns Greek government of Karamanlis resigns British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1961 Event Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns Belgium government of Eyskens resigns Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel 1960 Event George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees Italian Government Tambroni, resigns Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns 1959 Event Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns Italy government of Fanfani resigns 1958 Event Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle 1957 Event Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria Anthony Eden resigns as British PM Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns French government of Mollet resigns Italian government of Segni resigns Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1956 Event Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him Singapore government of Marshall resigns Jordan government of Samir resigns Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns Indonesian government of Harahap resigns 1955 Event Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party Turkish government of Menderes resigns Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns Dutch Government of Drees resigns Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him 1954 Event Japanese government of Joshida, resigns President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns Belgian Van Houtte government resigns Italy's Fanfani government resigns 1953 Event David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy French government of Mayer resigns 1952 Event French government of Pinay, resigns Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns Belgian Pholien government resigns 1951 Event Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns 1950 Event British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president French government-Bidault resigns Belgian government of Eyskens resigns 1948 Event Belgian government of Spaak, resigns 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns French government of Schuman, resigns Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns Queen Wilhelmina resigns Belgian government of Spaak resigns Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns 1947 Event Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns Belgian government of Huysmans resigns 1946 Event French government of Bidault, resigns Belgian government of Acker, resigns Belgian government of Spaak, resigns 1945 Event Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki 1944 Event Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves 1943 Event Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces 1942 Event Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system French government of Reynaud resigns 1941 Event British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns 1940 Event Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1935 Event Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns 1934 Event W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP 1932 Event German government of von Papen, resigns New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants 1930 Event James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons 1926 Event Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator 1925 Event German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption 1924 Event Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns German government of Marx resigns Baldwin government resigns in England 1923 Event Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns Germany's Stresemann resigns Dutch Premier de Geer resigns 1922 Event Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball 1919 Event German government of Scheideman resigns 1918 Event Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army 1917 Event Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar 1912 Event Caillaux government in France resigns 1909 Event Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns 1908 Event British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns 1907 Event Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns De Master's Dutch government resigns 1906 Event British government-Balfour resigns Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore manager to take over at Detroit in 1907 1905 Event British government of Balfour resigns French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request Hungarian premier Tisza resigns 1902 Event British premier Lord Salisbury resigns 1900 Event General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1897 Event Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns 1896 Event Italian premier Crispi resigns Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony 1895 Event French president Casimir-Perier resigns 1894 Event 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns 1891 Event Dutch Mackay government resigns 1889 Event King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns 1887 Event French president Grevy (80) resigns 1886 Event Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1st British government of Salisbury resigns 1885 Event 2nd French government of Ferry resigns 1881 Event French government-Ferry resigns 1879 Event Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt French President MacMahon resigns 1877 Event Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns 1868 Event 1st British government of Disraeli resigns 1867 Event 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan 1866 Event French Government of De Putte resigns 1862 Event Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns 1861 Event Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army Robert E Lee resigns from Union army Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns 1860 Event Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns 1858 Event Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns 1856 Event Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns 1853 Event Thorbecke government resigns 1849 Event De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns 1848 Event Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns 1840 Event Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands 1830 Event Charles X of France resigns by force 1826 Event Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies 1814 Event Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance 1810 Event Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands 1783 Event Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief 1776 Event Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns 1766 Event English premier Rockingham resigns 1755 Event English minister William Pitt Sr resigns 1746 Event English Pelham government resigns 1744 Event English premier John Carteret resigns 1742 Event British Walpole government resigns 1737 Event French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns 1730 Event Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns 1720 Event Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns 1710 Event Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance 1690 Event Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal 1673 Event Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral 1668 Event Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 1660 Event English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns 1659 Event Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector 1654 Event Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism 1645 Event Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander 1644 Event Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil 1619 Event Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader 1617 Event Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies 1564 Event Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns 1556 Event Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over 1532 Event Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor 1451 Event Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne 1449 Event Anti-pope Felix V resigns 1356 Event Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns 887 Event Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
