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Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in some countries and states.-Examples by country:In many nations, "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister"...
Timeline of Events
1940
6.16.1940
World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France.
1945
2.24.1945
Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1959
7.24.1959
At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1970
10.17.1970
Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1983
9.15.1983
Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1993
3.29.1993
Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
1996
1.24.1996
Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
2005
4.6.2005
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.