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1995
Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995
Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1994
Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1994
Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras
1992
Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1990
Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
1988
Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as President of Burma
1988
General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
1988
Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary
1987
Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
1985
Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1984
Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1984
John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
1984
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader
1983
Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
1982
Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan
1982
U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader
1982
Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1982
Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1981
Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR
1980
Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1979
Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria
1978
Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978
Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
1978
Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1976
Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976
Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1976
Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1976
Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1974
Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as President of Portugal
1974
Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina
1974
Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1974
Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1973
Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1973
Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1973
Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1972
Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
1972
S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1971
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1970
Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
1970
Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1969
General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969
Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president
1968
Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968
Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1968
Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1965
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R.
1965
Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party
1965
Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1965
Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary
1965
South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1964
Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia
1964
Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
1964
Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964
Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1963
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1963
G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
1958
Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958
Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958
Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
1958
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1957
Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1957
Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves
1956
Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary
1956
Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1956
E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
1956
William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
1955
Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
1955
Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1955
Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1954
John Str˜dom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1953
Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1953
Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Baltimore Orioles
1953
Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A's
1953
Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary
1953
Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party
1952
Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1952
Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1949
Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1948
5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
1948
Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1946
Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy
1946
Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R.
1945
Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1941
Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
1940
Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
1937
Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1936
Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
1931
Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
1930
Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
1929
Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
1924
Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1923
Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
1916
JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
1908
Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1908
Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1906
Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France
1903
Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1900
Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa
1891
Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname
1890
Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
1839
Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1808
Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1808
Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
1730
Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1726
Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier
1707
Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal
1697
Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1696
De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1691
Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1689
Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
1676
Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Koprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1658
Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector
1645
Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
1645
Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1637
Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1588
Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1576
Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria
1573
Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1564
Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1556
Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi
1547
Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France
1547
9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
1520
Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey
1515
Francois, Duke of Angoulˆme succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France
1513
Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king
1483
Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
1447
Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1422
Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
1416
Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon
1377
Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1325
Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1032
Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy
1031
Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
858
Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
795
Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
496
Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope
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