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1995 Event - Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland

1995 Event - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee

1994 Event - Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile

1994 Event - Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras

1992 Event - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria

1990 Event - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

1988 Event - Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma

1988 Event - General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma

1988 Event - Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary

1987 Event - Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR

1985 Event - Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania

1984 Event - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi

1984 Event - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada

1984 Event - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader

1983 Event - Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria

1982 Event - Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan

1982 Event - U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader

1982 Event - Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager

1982 Event - Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager

1981 Event - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR

1980 Event - Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness

1979 Event - Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria

1978 Event - Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya

1978 Event - Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa

1978 Event - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA

1976 Event - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP

1976 Event - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader

1976 Event - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party

1976 Event - Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier

1974 Event - General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal

1974 Event - Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina

1974 Event - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president

1974 Event - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain

1973 Event - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew

1973 Event - Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1973 Event - Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs

1972 Event - Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics

1972 Event - S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee

1971 Event - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1970 Event - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader

1970 Event - Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia

1969 Event - General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded

1969 Event - Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

1968 Event - Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president

1968 Event - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia

1968 Event - Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

1965 Event - Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R.

1965 Event - Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party

1965 Event - Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece

1965 Event - Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary

1965 Event - South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier

1964 Event - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia

1964 Event - Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany

1964 Event - Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria

1964 Event - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece

1963 Event - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII

1963 Event - G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank

1958 Event - General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan

1958 Event - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia

1958 Event - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

1958 Event - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

1957 Event - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister

1957 Event - Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves

1956 Event - Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary

1956 Event - Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan

1956 Event - E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP

1956 Event - William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker

1955 Event - Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president

1955 Event - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1955 Event - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal

1954 Event - John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa

1953 Event - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager

1953 Event - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Baltimore Orioles

1953 Event - Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A's

1953 Event - Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary

1953 Event - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

1952 Event - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister

1952 Event - Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves

1949 Event - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister

1948 Event - 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax

1948 Event - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff

1946 Event - Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy

1946 Event - Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R.

1945 Event - Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander

1941 Event - Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

1940 Event - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania

1940 Event - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister

1937 Event - Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier

1936 Event - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V

1931 Event - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China

1930 Event - Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand

1929 Event - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister

1924 Event - Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

1923 Event - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier

1916 Event - JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies

1908 Event - Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier

1908 Event - Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium

1906 Event - Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France

1903 Event - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier

1900 Event - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa

1891 Event - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname

1890 Event - Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany

1839 Event - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey

1808 Event - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey

1808 Event - Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies

1730 Event - Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark

1726 Event - Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier

1707 Event - Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal

1697 Event - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden

1696 Event - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance

1691 Event - Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII

1689 Event - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

1676 Event - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Koprulu as Turkish grand vizier

1658 Event - Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector

1645 Event - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar

1645 Event - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia

1637 Event - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor

1588 Event - Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark

1576 Event - Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria

1573 Event - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands

1564 Event - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor

1556 Event - Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi

1547 Event - Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France

1547 Event - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England

1520 Event - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey

1515 Event - Francois, Duke of Angoulame succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France

1513 Event - Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king

1483 Event - Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England

1447 Event - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V

1422 Event - Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France

1416 Event - Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon

1377 Event - Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England

1325 Event - Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal

1032 Event - Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy

1031 Event - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France

858 Event - Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope

795 Event - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I

496 Event - Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope

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