Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home served as British Prime Minister for one year from October 1963 to October 1964. He became famous for a series of records:…
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Sir Anthony Eden succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in April 1955. Having been a brilliant Foreign Secretary, he was seen as the natural and promising heir.…
1 9 1 8 – 1 9 8 1 Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as president from 1970 to…
Born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Arthur Scargill became a miner on leaving school and was soon a trade union and political activist in the Young…
Trained as a Muslim theologian, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the arch-prophet of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran. Bitterly opposed to the Westernised regime of Shah Mohammed…
Fidel Castro overthrew the US-backed Batista dictatorship in January 1959 to take control of Cuba, and in 1960, he took over US oil refineries in…
When, on the day before her 22nd birthday in April 1969, Irish psychology student Bernadette Devlin became the youngest woman ever elected (for the Northern…
In 1997 the consequences of two alleged sexual misdemeanours coincided in a nightmare scenario for President Clinton. During a sexual harassment case relating to alleged…
William George Hayden was born in Ipswich, Queensland, the son of an Irish-American sailor. He was educated at Brisbane State High School and served in…
The Black Panthers wanted to be the vanguard of a revolution that would create economic, social and political equality across gender and colour lines. Since…
Born in 1929, Bob Hawke built up a position of great influence in the Australian trade union movement during 20 years with the Australian Council…
1 9 2 5 – 1 9 6 8 Younger brother and close associate of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy trained as a lawyer, and entered…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 8 1 Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sands came of age at the height of ”the Troubles” in…
In 1985 Boris Yeltsin was appointed head of the Moscow City Party Committee. He alienated party conservatives via his attempts to eradicate corruption and was…
1 8 9 0 – 1 9 7 0 Born in Lille, Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1911 and was…
1 9 2 8 – 1 9 6 7 Che Ernesto Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina, and trained there as a doctor, but left…
The term ”Cold War” was first used by Bernard Baruch, advisor to US President Truman, in a speech made in April 1947. He spoke about…
In 1959 a revolution took place in Cuba and Fidel Castro came to power. He introduced a Soviet-style government on the island and he looked…
On 15 June 1992, US vice president Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell ‘potato’ by adding an ‘e’ to the end during a spelling…
1 8 8 6 – 1 9 7 3 An Israeli statesman and socialist politician, Ben-Gurion was one of the founders of the state of…