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2008 Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan
2008 Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work 2008 Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected 2006 Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense 2000 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns 1998 New York Giant General Manager 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, Senator-R-Kansas, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president 1995 Senator Bob Packwoord R-Oregon resigns rather than face expulsion 1995 Deputy Governor 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 Lieutenant-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 Prime Minister of Jamaica 1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox 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 Mo Udall, Representative-D-Arizona, 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 Prime Minister 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 Vice President/General Manager 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, Representative-D-New York, convicted of racketeering resigns seat 1987 Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns 1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns 1987 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 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 George 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 Netherlands 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 Prime Minister 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 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns 1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke 1976 Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976, resigns after scandal with Elizabeth Ray 1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister 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, Vice President 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 Secretary-General of NATO 1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel 1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager 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 Prime Minister Britain 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1956 Indonesian Vice President 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 Prime Minister, 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 Yankees General Manager 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 Prime Minister 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister 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 Prime Minister 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 General 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 Baltimore 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 General 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 Secretary 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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