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50 years ago today, Margaret Thatcher was elected Leader of the Conservative Party on the second ballot in the leadership election:
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RT @AmIRightSir: The January 1910 general election concluded on this day - result: - Liberals 274 (43.5%) - Conservatives/Liberal Unionis…
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The January 1910 general election concluded on this day - result: - Liberals 274 (43.5%) - Conservatives/Liberal Unionists 272 (46.8%) - Irish Parliamentary Party 71 - Labour 40 (7%) - All-for-Ireland League 8 - Others 5
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Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party 1957-63, was born on this day in 1894
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the contingent election at which John Quincy Adams was elected US President by the House of Representatives, no candidate in the 1824 election having received a majority in the electoral college:
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RT @AmIRightSir: The oldest living Olympic champion, French cyclist Charles Coste (gold in team pursuit, 1948), is 101 today - he was one o…
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RT @AmIRightSir: The current oldest living former state leader, Khamtai Siphandone, President of Laos 1998-2006 (and Prime Minister before…
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The oldest living Olympic champion, French cyclist Charles Coste (gold in team pursuit, 1948), is 101 today - he was one of the torch bearers at the opening ceremony of last year’s Paris Olympics:
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The current oldest living former state leader, Khamtai Siphandone, President of Laos 1998-2006 (and Prime Minister before that), is 101 today:
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RT @AmIRightSir: From today @LadyBasildon becomes the second longest-serving Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords @LabourLordsU…
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The 1906 general election concluded on this day - result: - Liberals 397 (48.9%) - Conservatives 156 (43.4%) - Irish Parliamentary Party 82 - Labour 29 (4.8%) - Others 6
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Elected at the age of 27, Dafydd Elis-Thomas was the youngest MP in the February 1974 Parliament
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From today @LadyBasildon becomes the second longest-serving Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords @LabourLordsUK, surpassing Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos (1982-92) and second only to Viscount Addison (1940-51)
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RT @AmIRightSir: Today's introduction of Lord Pitkeathley of Camden Town (the son of Baroness Pitkeathley) means there are now two parent/c…
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The other parent and child in the current House of Lords is Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill and her daughter, the Advocate General for Scotland Baroness Smith of Cluny
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The last known living witness to the German surrender ceremony in WWII on 7 May 1945, Louis Graziano, is 102 today:
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