and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.

* 1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.

As provided, Robert Mugabe will remain president, Morgan Tsvangirai will become prime minister, ZANU-PF and the MDC will share control of the police, Mugabe ’ s Zanu ( PF ) will command the Army, and Arthur Mutambara becomes deputy prime minister.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

Based on the Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood, the film stars Mae Clarke as Myra, a chorus girl in World War I London who becomes a prostitute.

* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

* 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.

* 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

* 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.

In Robert Bloch's 1956 short story " A Way Of Life ", science fiction fandom is the only institution to survive a nuclear holocaust and eventually becomes the basis for the reconstitution of civilization.

* September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.

* January 31 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

* April 18 – Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom ; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.

* January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member, by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

** Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires.

* June 23 – Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury becomes British Prime Minister.

It becomes a motion of no confidence which leads to the resignation of Robert Walpole.

* March 24 – Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that had been advertised in Scientific American.

* July 25 – Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( Conservative Party ( UK )) becomes Great Britain's 30th Prime Minister.

* February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC ( Victorian Economic Development Co-operation ) Crisis.

* May 11 – Captain Robert Gray on the Columbia Rediviva becomes the first white man to enter the Columbia River.

* September – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.

* April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ( although this is more a term of disparagement at this time ).

* February 22 – Robert II becomes the first Stuart king of Scotland after the death of his uncle, David II.

Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Bruce hurried from Dumfries to Glasgow, where, kneeling before Bishop Robert Wishart he made confession of his violence and sacrilege and was granted absolution by the Bishop.

The royal robes and vestments which Robert Wishart had hidden from the English were brought out by the Bishop and set upon King Robert.

Mr. McKenna succeeded Robert Bishop, who remained vice chairman of the board of directors.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

* Robert F. Vasa ( born 1951 ), Bishop of Baker

Godwin returned from exile in 1052 with armed forces and a settlement was reached between the king and the earl, with the earl and his family being restored to their lands and the replacement of Robert of Jumièges, a Norman whom Edward had named Archbishop of Canterbury, with Stigand, the Bishop of Winchester.

The pursuit of this aim led them to revolt against William in favour of Robert in the Rebellion of 1088, under the leadership of the powerful Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who was a half-brother of William the Conqueror.

* Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford

* June 6 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester

* July 26 – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Scottish-American educator and minister ( d. 1855 )

* June 26 – Robert, Bishop of Hereford

* Robert of Chichester becomes Bishop of Exeter.

* July 28 – Robert Blackadder, Bishop of Glasgow

* Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor

* June 27 – Robert FitzRalph, Bishop of Worcester

When he appointed Robert of Jumièges as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051, he chose the leading craftsman Spearhafoc to replace Robert as Bishop of London.

The appeals for help of the Bishop of Chartres, Joseaume, were answered by Robert, Marquis of Neustria, Richard, Duke of Burgundy and Manasses, Count of Dijon.

Wallace was succeeded by Robert Bruce and John Comyn as joint guardians, with William de Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews being appointed in 1299 as a third, neutral Guardian to try and maintain order between them.

* Robert Wishart — Bishop of Glasgow ( 1272 – 1317 )