2006 Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense
2000 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns
1998 New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
1997 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
1996 Bob Dole, Sen-R-KS, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president
1995 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
1995 Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1994 Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1994 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
1994 Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns
1994 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
1994 Kirgizie government resigns
1994 Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
1994 Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns
1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 Italian government of Ciampi resigns
1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1993 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
1993 Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1993 Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
1992 WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR
1992 Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
1992 New York City police commisioner Brown resigns
1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1992 Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1991 Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 CIA director William H. Webster resigns
1991 Morris K. Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989 India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1989 East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee VP/GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
1988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time
1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1983 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 Israel premier Begin resigns
1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1982 Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns
1982 Bolivian government resigns
1982 Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by Schultz
1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Neth
1981 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
1981 Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns
1981 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
1980 Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 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
1980 Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1979 Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
1979 Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1979 India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1979 Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
1979 South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1978 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1978 Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
1977 Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1977 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
1977 U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns
1977 Israel premier Rabin resigns
1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
1976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1976 Wayne L. Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1975 Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms
1975 Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns
1975 Gunsmoke resigns the air
1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president
1974 Rumor's government in Italy resigns
1974 West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns
1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns
1973 Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1973 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1971 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
1971 Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark
1970 Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France
1969 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns
1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets
1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1964 President Segni of Italy resigns
1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1964 Suriname governor A Currie resigns
1964 U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1961 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1961 Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns
1961 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of New York Yankees
1960 Italian Government Tambroni, resigns
1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League
1959 Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
1959 U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns
1958 Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns
1958 Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1958 French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
1957 Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns
1957 French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria
1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
1957 French government of Mollet resigns
1957 Italian government of Segni resigns
1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1956 Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1956 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
1956 Jordan government of Samir resigns
1956 Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
1955 Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1955 Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1955 Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him
1954 Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
1954 President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1954 Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns
1954 Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1953 French government of Mayer resigns
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president
1952 Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1950 French government-Bidault resigns
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1948 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India
1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1948 Belgian government of Spaak resigns
1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1946 French government of Bidault, resigns
1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system
1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1940 Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1938 U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1935 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1934 W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1932 German government of von Papen, resigns
1932 New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1932 John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns
1924 German government of Marx resigns
1924 Baldwin government resigns in England
1923 Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1923 Germany's Stresemann resigns
1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini
1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
1918 Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
1918 Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1907 Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns
1907 De Master's Dutch government resigns
1906 British government-Balfour resigns
1906 Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1905 British government of Balfour resigns
1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1900 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1897 Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1895 French president Casimir-Perier resigns
1894 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
1891 Dutch Mackay government resigns
1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1887 French president Grevy (80) resigns
1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1886 1st British government of Salisbury resigns
1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1881 French government-Ferry resigns
1879 Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1879 French President MacMahon resigns
1877 Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1868 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
1867 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
1866 French Government of De Putte resigns
1862 Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army
1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1860 Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns
1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
1856 Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1853 Thorbecke government resigns
1849 De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns
1848 Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1840 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1830 Charles X of France resigns by force
1826 Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1810 Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1783 Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief
1776 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1766 English premier Rockingham resigns
1755 English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1746 English Pelham government resigns
1744 English premier John Carteret resigns
1742 British Walpole government resigns
1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1730 Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns
1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
1710 Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
1673 Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1668 Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France
1668 King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1617 Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies
1564 Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
1556 Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1356 Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns
887 Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
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