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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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