Harold Macmillan - Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. The First Earl of Stockton Period in Office: 11 January, 1957 - 19 October, 1963 PM Predecessor: Anthony Eden PM Successor: Alec Douglas-Home Date of Birth: February 10, 1894 Place of Birth: London Political Party: Conservative Nickname: Super Mac Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life 2 Government 3 Retirement 4 External Link 5 Harold Macmillan's Government, January 1957 - October 1963 5.1 Changes Early life Harold Macmillan was born in London. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He served with distinction in WW I, being wounded on three occasions..
Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton - Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been a member of the European Parliament for South West England, since 1999. He was one of the hereditary peers to have been exclude from the House of Lords. He inherited his peerage from his grandfather, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom..
Maurice Macmillan - Maurice Macmillan Maurice Macmillan (1921-1984) was a Tory politician and member of Parliament for Halifax. He was the son of Harold Macmillan. He served as Secretary of State for Employment under Edward Heath. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kim Philby - Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby (1912 - May 11, 1988) was an employee of British intelligence and a Soviet spy. He was member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Philby was nicknamed Kim after a fictional spy. Born in Ambala, India the son of the British diplomat, explorer, author, Arabist and converted Muslim Harry St. John Philby, at one time an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. After leaving Westminster School in 1928, Philby went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While a student there Philby was introduced to, and came to admire, the ideals of Communism. He was not exactly 'recruited' as a spy - he volunteered. He asked one.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State. 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers. 1929 - The comic book character of Tintin was created by Hergé who went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages and loved across the world. 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress. 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations. 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom. 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published. 1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS. 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola..
John Profumo - He married the actress, Valerie Hobson. In 1960, he was appointed Secretary of State for War (a now obsolete title) under Harold Macmillan, but became embroiled in a relationship with Christine Keeler, a showgirl who was simultaneously involved with an attache at the Soviet Embassy. Although there was no suspicion of his having passed on any state secrets, Profumo was forced to resign when the details of the affair were discovered. He retired from public life, becoming a charity worker, and was awarded the CBE in 1975. His son is the journalist and novelist, David Profumo. See also: Profumo Affair.
Iain Macleod - served as a minister in the Conservative Governments of the 1950s being responsible at different times for transport and for decolonisation. When Harold Macmillan acted to block the succession of Richard Austen Butler as his successor as party leader and prime minister, Macleod (along with Enoch Powell) refused to serve under Alec Douglas-Home. He was at one time editor of The Spectator, and the coinage of the word stagflation is attributed to him. Shortly before his death he had been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Prime Minister Edward Heath. He left behind him an outline budget which most observers found surprisingly hard-line in its proposals for control of public spending and tax reform. Many conservative politicians of generations following Macleod recalled him as an inspirational speaker, and John Major.
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire - married aides-de-camp to their father while he was Governor General: Lady Maud Cavendish married Captain Angus Mackintosh in 1917, and Lady Dorothy Cavendish married Captain Harold Macmillan, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, in 1920. Their youngest son, Charles Arthur Francis, married Adele, the sister of Fred Astaire, in 1932. On the death of his father, who represented West Derbyshire, he succeeded his father unopposed, becoming the youngest member of the House of Commons. He remained elected to that seat until 1908. He also acted as Treasurer to His Majesty's Household from 1900 to 1903, then Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1903 to 1905. He was Mayor of Eastbourne from 1909-10 and of Chesterfield from 1911-12, and a Civil Lord of the British Admiralty between 1915 to 1916. He.
Head of State - Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (constitution), Article 59 (1) states - The Federal President shall represent the Federation in its international relations. He shall conclude treaties with foreign states on behalf of the Federation. He shall accredit and receive envoys. Chief Appointments Officer: He or she appoints all the key officials in the state, including members of the cabinet, the prime minister (if there is one), key judicial figures and all major office holders. Some countries have exceptions - under Article 4 of the Instrument of Government 1974, the constitution of Sweden grants to the parliamentary speaker the role of formally appointing the Prime Minister. In practice parliamentary numbers may make the decision a formality. The last time a United Kingdom monarch actually had a choice over who to.
History of Indonesia - the announcement of the pro-independence vote. In October 1999, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) revoked the 1976 decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET) assumed responsibility for administering East Timor until it became independent. Sukarno Unsuccessful rebellions on Sumatra, Sulawesi, West Java, and other islands beginning in 1958, plus a failure by the constituent assembly to develop a new constitution, weakened the parliamentary system. Consequently, in 1959, when President Sukarno unilaterally revived the provisional 1945 constitution, which gave broad presidential powers, he met little resistance. From 1959 to 1965, President Sukarno imposed an authoritarian regime under the label of "Guided Democracy." He also moved Indonesia's foreign policy toward nonalignment, a foreign policy stance supported by other prominent leaders of former colonies who rejected.
Hugh Gaitskell - later defeated Bevan in the party leadership contest, following the resignation of Clement Attlee in 1955. Gaitskell's election as leader coincided with one of the Labour Party's leanest periods, and he is regarded by some as "the best Prime Minister we never had". In 1959 the Labour Party had been widely expected to win the election but were undermined by public doubts about the credibility of proposals to raise pensions and by a highly effective populist campaign run by Harold Macmillan under the slogan "Life is better with the Conservatives, don't let Labour ruin it". Gaitskell was an early moderniser, trying (unsuccessfully) to amend Labour's Clause IV which committed the party, on paper, to massive nationalisation of industry. He also, successfully, resisted attempts to commit Labour to a unilateralist position on.
United Kingdom general elections - as the Liberal Democrats. On the other hand, supporters of the system cite it as a reason for the lack of extremist parties from mainstream UK politics, the infrequency of coalitions, and the direct connection between constituencies and their MP. Society In the UK general elections are generally affairs in which public opinion changes gradually from general election from election. However this can often have dramatic effects due to the first-past-the-post election system as support for a given political party tips sufficiently to give a landslide result. Currently the Labour party under Prime Minister Tony Blair has had two such landslides, giving him a strength in parliament that has rivalled the legacy of the Baroness Thatcher. Post-election Polls close at 10 pm and the votes are, in most constituencies, counted immediately..
Famous Smokers - - Fictional Detective Rudyard Kipling - Poet Sean Lemass - Former Taoiseach of Ireland Jack Lynch - Former Taoiseach of Ireland Douglas MacArthur Harold MacMillan - Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom A.A. Milne - Writer Patrick Moore - Astronomer Eric Morecambe - Comedian Popeye - Fictional Sailor Bertrand Russell Joseph Stalin - Former leader of the USSR JRR Tolkien - Writer Mark Twain - Writer Vincent Van Gogh - Painter Harold Wilson - Former Prime Minister for the United Kingdom.
February 10 - 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington. 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct. 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace. 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law. 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10. Births 1890 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+ 1960) 1893 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian,.
Earl of Stockton - in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1984, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Macmillan of Ovendon, which is the courtesy title of the heir to the title being the eldest son of the present holder. Earl of Stockton (1984) Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (b. 1943).
Edward Heath - 1965 to 1975. His spell in office represented a transition between the traditional, squirearchical leadership of the party under figures such as Harold Macmillan and that of later, self consciously meritocratic figures starting with Margaret Thatcher. The Right Hon. Sir Edward Heath Period in Office: 9 June, 1970 - 6 March 1974 PM Predecessor: Harold Wilson PM Successor: Harold Wilson Date of Birth: 9 July, 1916 Place of Birth: St. Peters-in-Thanet, Kent Political Party: Conservative Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Youth and Parliament 2 Government 3 The End 4 Retirement Youth and Parliament Born in 1916 of a humble background, and educated at a state grammar school before attending Oxford University (Balliol College), Heath was a statesman and a fervent pro-European, believing in political as well as economic union. His background.
December 29 - and conductor (†1973) 1879 - Billy Mitchell, United States Army officer, United States Air Force pioneer (†1936) 1881 - Jess Willard, boxing champion (†1968) 1890 - Käthe Dorsch, actress (†1957) 1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, theologian (†1993) 1914 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician 1917 - Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California (†1998) 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress 1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football star (†1998) 1937 - Barbara Steele, actress 1938 - Jon Voight, actor 1942 - Rick Danko, musician ("The Band") (†1999) 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, singer 1947 - Ted Danson, actor 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, dancer 1972 - Jude Law, actor Deaths 1170 - St. Thomas a Becket, English bishop, assassinated 1894 - CHristina Rosetti, poet 1916 - Grigori Rasputin,.
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - or not the title has actually been conferred. Labour Party leader Clement Attlee held the post in the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill, and had general responsibility for domestic affairs, allowing Churchill to concentrate on the war. Richard Austen Butler held the post in 1962-3 under Harold Macmillan, but was passed over for the premiership in favour of Alec Douglas-Home. William Whitelaw was Margaret Thatcher's deputy from 1979-1988, a post he combined with that of Home Secretary in 1979-83 and Leader of the House of Lords after 1983. Sir Geoffrey Howe was given the title in 1989, on being removed from the post of Foreign Secretary. He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 1990, making a resignation speech that is widely thought to have hastened Thatcher's downfall. Thatcher's successor.
Deaths in 2001 - 2001 28 Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist and philosopher 12 Perry Como, 87, American singer. 11 Douglas Adams, 49 (heart attack), British author, works included Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently, Doctor Who. 5 Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of Cliff Notes (stroke). April 2001 15 Joey Ramone, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones. 11 Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show. 10 Willie Stargell, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. March 2001 22 William Hanna, American animatorm, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. 21 Norma Macmillan, American cartoon voice actress. 18 John Phillips, American singer, co-founder of Popular Music group The Mamas and the Papas. 15 Ann Sothern, actress 12 Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels. 12.
1894 - October 20 (O.S.) = November 1 (N.S.) - Russian Tsar Alexander III dies and is succeeded by his son Nicholas II. December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament. December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister. Art, Culture & Fashion 1894 in film 1894 in literature 1894 in music 1894 in sports March 22 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. Births Chaim Soutine, painter January 20 - Walter Piston, composer January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (+ 1943) February 1 - John Ford, director, producer (+ 1973) February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse, author and philosopher (+ 1971) February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great.
