Harold Wilson

In 1964, Wilson narrowly won the general election with a majority of four and became Prime Minister. This was not sufficient to last for a full term and, after a short period of competent government, in March 1966 he won re-election with a landslide majority of 96. He was soon a familiar figure, known for his pipe-smoking (he especially liked Tobacco grown in Rhodesia), his Gannex raincoat, and his habit of taking holidays in the Isles of Scilly. On 1 June 2005 files were released showing that Wilson was concerned that, while on the Isles of Scilly, he was being monitored by Russian ships disguised as trawlers. MI5 found no evidence o ...

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Harold Wilson, Harold Wilson - Birth and Early Life, Harold Wilson - In Parliament, Harold Wilson - Opposition, Harold Wilson - Prime Minister, Harold Wilson - Resignation, Harold Wilson - Death, Harold Wilson - MI5 plot?, Harold Wilson - Other conspiracy theories, Harold Wilson - Harold Wilson's First Cabinet 1964-1970, Harold Wilson - Harold Wilson's Second Government March 1974 - April 1976, Harold Wilson - Changes, Harold Wilson - Titles from birth to death

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1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). 1974 - Events. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - ...

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• 1974 - Events
• 1974 - February
• 1974 - March
• 1974 - April
• 1974 - May
• 1974 - June
• 1974 - July
• 1974 - August
• 1974 - September
• 1974 - October
• 1974 - November
• 1974 - December
• 1974 - Unknown date
• 1974 - Births
• 1974 - January
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• 1974 - April
• 1974 - May
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• 1974 - August
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• 1974 - October
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• 1974 - Deaths
• 1974 - January
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• 1974 - March
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• 1974 - July
• 1974 - August
• 1974 - September
• 1974 - October
• 1974 - November
• 1974 - December
• 1974 - Nobel Prizes
• 1974 - Fields Medalists
• 1974 - Templeton Prize

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1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 13/14 - ...

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• 1916 - Events
• 1916 - March-June
• 1916 - July-August
• 1916 - October-December
• 1916 - Unknown dates
• 1916 - Ongoing events
• 1916 - Disputed events
• 1916 - Births
• 1916 - January-March
• 1916 - April-June
• 1916 - July-December
• 1916 - Deaths
• 1916 - Nobel Prizes

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1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1976 - Events. January 12 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison January 16 - Trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany January 18 - The Scottish Labour Party ...

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• 1976 - Events
• 1976 - February
• 1976 - March
• 1976 - April
• 1976 - May
• 1976 - June
• 1976 - July
• 1976 - August
• 1976 - September
• 1976 - October
• 1976 - November
• 1976 - December
• 1976 - Unknown dates
• 1976 - Births
• 1976 - January
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• 1976 - April
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• 1976 - June
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• 1976 - December
• 1976 - Deaths
• 1976 - January
• 1976 - February
• 1976 - March
• 1976 - April
• 1976 - May
• 1976 - June
• 1976 - July
• 1976 - August
• 1976 - September
• 1976 - October
• 1976 - November
• 1976 - December
• 1976 - Nobel Prizes
• 1976 - Templeton Prize

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In the late 1950s the British, French, Americans and Soviets were all interested in developing supersonic transport. Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Company and France's Sud Aviation were both working on designs, called the Type 233 and Super-Caravelle respectively. Both were largely funded by their respective governments as a way of gaining some foothold in the aircraft market that was until ...

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Concorde, Concorde - Origins, Concorde - Technological features, Concorde - Scheduled flights, Concorde - Passenger experience, Concorde - Paris crash, Concorde - Withdrawal from service, Concorde - Air France, Concorde - British Airways, Concorde - Aircraft histories, Concorde - Cultural and political impact, Concorde - Dimensions and specifications, Concorde - Trivia, Concorde - Possible replacement, Concorde - Films and Television

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On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, 14 unarmed men and boys were shot dead (one of whom died 4 months later) and 13 others were wounded by British paratroopers after a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry Stormont MP Ivan Cooper to protest against internment without trial of Irishmen, predominantly Catholic, in Northern Ireland. While the start of the IRA's campaign against British ...

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• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Events of the Day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The dead
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The perspectives and analyses on the day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The Saville Inquiry
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Impact on Northern Ireland divisions
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Artistic reaction

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The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. He has led the Labour Party since July 1994, (following the death of John Smith in May of that year) and brought Labour into power with a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, replacing John Major as Prime Minister and ending 18 years of Conservative government. He is now the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, and the only person to have led the party ...

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• Tony Blair - Family background
• Tony Blair - Early political career
• Tony Blair - In opposition
• Tony Blair - Leader of the Labour Party
• Tony Blair - First term 1997 to 2001
• Tony Blair - Establishment of the Third Way
• Tony Blair - Control over House of Commons
• Tony Blair - Domestic policies
• Tony Blair - Second term 2001 to 2005
• Tony Blair - Iraq war
• Tony Blair - Domestic politics
• Tony Blair - Attempted impeachment
• Tony Blair - Health problems
• Tony Blair - Third term 2005 to present
• Tony Blair - G8 and EU presidencies
• Tony Blair - 2012 Summer Olympics
• Tony Blair - 2005 London bombings
• Tony Blair - Departure
• Tony Blair - Common criticisms of Blair
• Tony Blair - 'Spin'
• Tony Blair - Authoritarianism
• Tony Blair - Relationship with USA
• Tony Blair - Criticisms by the left
• Tony Blair - Satire
• Tony Blair - Works

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United Kingdom This article is part of the series: Politics of the United Kingdom Parliament The Crown: Queen Elizabeth II House of Lords Lord Chancellor: Lord Falconer House of Commons Speaker: Michael Martin Prime Minister: Tony Blair Cabinet Government departments Scottish Parliament Scottish ExecutiveIncluding:

• British monarchy - History
• British monarchy - English monarchy
• British monarchy - Scottish monarchy
• British monarchy - Since the Union of the Crowns
• British monarchy - Succession
• British monarchy - Regency
• British monarchy - Political role
• British monarchy - Royal Prerogative
• British monarchy - Commonwealth role
• British monarchy - Finances
• British monarchy - Residences
• British monarchy - Style
• British monarchy - Arms of Dominion

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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 - 1 July 1980) was a scientist and novelist. Born in Leicester, he was educated at University College, Leicester and Cambridge University, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. He served as a Minister in the Labour government of Harold Wilson. Snow is most noted for his lectures and books regarding his concept of "The Two Cultures", as developed in The Two C ...

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Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. The setting was, at first, the private office of a government minister and, in the sequel, 10 Downing Street. All 38 episodes were written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn and all but one are 30 minutes in length. Yes Minister - Plot. The running theme of most episodes of the programmes is the struggle between (Mr) James "Jim" Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the ...

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• Yes Minister - Plot
• Yes Minister - Critical reception
• Yes Minister - Background
• Yes Minister - Inspirations
• Yes Minister - Episode list
• Yes Minister - Yes Minister
• Yes Minister - Yes Prime Minister
• Yes Minister - Character list
• Yes Minister - Remakes

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The Cambridge Five (also sometimes known as the Cambridge Four) was a ring of British spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s. It has been suggested they may also have been responsible for passing Soviet disinformation to the Nazis. Proven members included Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks), and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson). Several other persons h ...

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• Cambridge Five - Known members
• Cambridge Five - The Fifth Man

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Birding or birdwatching is a hobby concerned with the observation and study of birds (the study proper is termed ornithology). The term "birding" is of American origin; "birdwatching" is (or more correctly, was) the commonly used word in the United Kingdom and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States. Since visual observation is routinely complemented with auditory observation, the term "birding" is more accurate, and is growing ...

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• Birdwatching - Socio-Psychology of birdwatching
• Birdwatching - Celebrity birders

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The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be "little-used" and unprofitable railway lines. Beeching Axe - Background. The Beeching Axe was a reaction to the failed railway modernisation plan of the 1950s, which spent huge amounts of money on buying new equipment such as new diesel and electric locomotives without first examining the railways' role, what was actu ...

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• Beeching Axe - Background
• Beeching Axe - Rail closures by year
• Beeching Axe - Beeching II
• Beeching Axe - Changing attitudes and policies
• Beeching Axe - Overview
• Beeching Axe - Re-openings

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The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It began when Israel launched what it considered a pre-emptive attack against Egypt, following the latter's closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the deployment of troops in the Sinai near the Israeli border, and after months of increasingly tense bord ...

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• Six-Day War - Background
• Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war
• Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies
• Six-Day War - Warfare
• Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack
• Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula
• Six-Day War - West Bank
• Six-Day War - Golan Heights
• Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea
• Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation
• Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims
• Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war
• Six-Day War - U.S. and British support
• Six-Day War - Soviet instigation
• Six-Day War - Footnotes

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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1967 - Events. 1967 - January. January 2 - Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong in England. January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddo ...

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• 1967 - Events
• 1967 - January
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• 1967 - Dates unknown
• 1967 - Deaths
• 1967 - January
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• 1967 - September
• 1967 - October
• 1967 - November
• 1967 - December
• 1967 - Unknown date
• 1967 - Nobel Prizes

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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The United States, which had become an influential global power, experienced much of the transition. While the sixties saw social activism, society became more self-absorbed in the seventies. Analyst and writer Tom Wolfe epitomized this feeling in 1976, calling the seventies th ...

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• 1970s - Worldwide trends in the Seventies
• 1970s - Economy of the Seventies
• 1970s - Oil crisis
• 1970s - Social movements
• 1970s - Environmentalism
• 1970s - Feminism
• 1970s - Gay rights
• 1970s - Culture during the Seventies
• 1970s - Emerging social perspectives in the Seventies
• 1970s - The Seventies in music
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• 1970s - The Seventies in television
• 1970s - The Seventies in literature
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• 1970s - National issues
• 1970s - In the Middle East
• 1970s - In Africa
• 1970s - In India and Pakistan
• 1970s - In Southeast Asia
• 1970s - In Japan
• 1970s - In the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
• 1970s - In the United States
• 1970s - In the United Kingdom

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The 1973 oil crisis began in earnest on October 17, 1973, when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), during the Yom Kippur War, announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt -- that is, to the United States and its allies in Western Europe. At around the same time, OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil in order to quadruple world oil prices. The complete dependence ...

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• 1973 oil crisis - Origins of the 1973 world oil shock
• 1973 oil crisis - World competition over resources
• 1973 oil crisis - Founding of OPEC
• 1973 oil crisis - The Yom Kippur War
• 1973 oil crisis - Arab oil embargo
• 1973 oil crisis - Chronology
• 1973 oil crisis - Immediate economic impact of the embargo
• 1973 oil crisis - Price controls and rationing
• 1973 oil crisis - Conservation and reduction in demand
• 1973 oil crisis - Search for alternatives
• 1973 oil crisis - Macroeconomic effects
• 1973 oil crisis - Perception of the oil industry
• 1973 oil crisis - Effects on international relations
• 1973 oil crisis - Decline of OPEC
• 1973 oil crisis - Notes and references

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History of Yemen. History of Yemen - Ancient history. Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a feature recognized by the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia (better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning "fortunate Arabia." Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was dominated by three ...

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• History of Yemen - Ancient history
• History of Yemen - Persian period
• History of Yemen - Medieval history
• History of Yemen - Modern History
• History of Yemen - Former North Yemen
• History of Yemen - Former South Yemen
• History of Yemen - Republic of Yemen

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The Right Honourable Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT,1 PC (2 July 1903–9 October 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. As such, he held a series of records: He was the last member of the House of Lords to be appointed Prime Minister, the only Prime Minister to resign from the Lords and contest a by-election to enter the House of Commons and, to date, the las ...

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• Alec Douglas-Home - Cricket Career
• Alec Douglas-Home - Political Life
• Alec Douglas-Home - Appointment as Prime Minister
• Alec Douglas-Home - Defeat and opposition
• Alec Douglas-Home - Titles from birth to death
• Alec Douglas-Home - Nicknames
• Alec Douglas-Home - Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Government October 1963 – October 1964
• Alec Douglas-Home - Changes
• Alec Douglas-Home - Notes

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Classical liberalism (also called classic liberalism or simply liberalism) is the original form of and nowadays a tendency within liberalism. It is a political school of thought that first emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries, upholding individualism and free market economics. Classical liberalism focuses on concepts of individual autonomy and private property, and argues that the sole legitimate function of government is to defend these. Classical liberals promote the use of precisely delineated constitutions that are difficult or impossible to modify, intended to ...

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• Classical liberalism - Introduction
• Classical liberalism - Origins
• Classical liberalism - Classical liberal philosophy
• Classical liberalism - Classical liberalism during the Great Depression and the rise of dictatorships
• Classical liberalism - Classical liberalism economic freedom and their relationship with civil and political freedoms
• Classical liberalism - Classical liberalism and rhetorical liberalism as practiced in the United States
• Classical liberalism - External articles

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