* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

Category: Former nationalised industries of the United Kingdom

In the 1994 edition, the name of the entry was changed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is officially recognised by the United Nations ( awaiting for the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute ).

Former Compaq headquarters, now the Hewlett-Packard United States campus

Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Former presidents of the United States, while holding no legitimate power, continue to exert great influence in national and world affairs.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and to try their perpetrators.

* 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

* 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

* 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.

Category: Former women's universities and colleges in the United States

Category: Former United States labor unions

* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

Image: Margaret Thatcher awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush in 1991

Image: Blair MOF. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.

Category: Former Roman Catholic universities and colleges in the United States

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that it is " time to set aside debates on so-called ' state terrorism '.

Former United States President John Quincy Adams, who at the time represented Massachusetts in Congress, backed Michigan's claim.

Category: Former regions and territories of the United States

Former United States Navy Commander Matthew Maury, who served as a commander in the Confederate Navy, worked on the development of an underwater electrical mine.

Former Secretary of Defense and future Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney was touted by many as a possible candidate for the presidency, but he declared his intentions not to run in early 1995.

* July 4 – Former US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

* March 28 – Former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D. C ..

* December 26 – Former United States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

** Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.

From this date until the death of Former U. S. President James Madison on June 28 1836, there are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States ( 3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future ) living ; which is more than any other time period in U. S. history.

* February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.

* Charles Strauss, MBA 1967, Former President and CEO of Unilever United States

Category: Former Class I railroads in the United States

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

Former President César Gaviria became Secretary General of the OAS in September 1994 and was reelected in 1999.

* Colin Powell ( 1958 ), Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State

* Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked, in 2003, whether he has duct tape, plastic sheeting, and a three-day supply of bottled water at home.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz commented on the evening, saying " We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling.

Former and future Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formed a presidential campaign exploratory committee, but declined to formally enter the race.

Former Congressman and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp was nominated by acclamation as Dole's running mate the following day.

* Former Congressman and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp of New York

* Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett

* March 2 – Former U. S. Vice-President Henry A. Wallace starts his term of office as U. S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* October 25 – Former U. S. Interior Secretary Albert B.

Image: JamesBuchanan crop. jpg | Former Secretary of State James Buchanan of Pennsylvania

Image: WilliamLMarcy. png | Former Secretary of War William L. Marcy of New York

Image: JamesGBlaine. png | Former Secretary of State James G. Blaine of Maine

Image: Leslie Shaw, Bain photo portrait. jpg | Former Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw of Iowa

Image: Henry_Breckinridge. jpg | Former Assistant Secretary of War Henry Skillman Breckinridge of New York

Image: William Averell Harriman. jpg | Former Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman of New York

Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post.