Harold Macmillan
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
8 dated entries naming Harold Macmillan, drawn from 6 separate years between 1894 CE and 1986 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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- 1957January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
- 1960February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – modern-day Ghana – on January 10).source
- 1960January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).source
- 1960September 29 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev angrily interrupts British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, banging the desk and shouting in Russian. Macmillan drily says "I should like that to be translated, if I may".source
- 1962July 13 – In what the press dubs the "Night of the Long Knives", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses one-third of his Cabinet.source
- 1963October 19 – Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
- 1986December 29 – Harold Macmillan, 92, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source