Newspapers of the period reported that the announcement of the new party came as a complete shock to MPs from all sides of the Commons, including members of the Manifesto Group, as the ' Gang of Four ' had kept their preparations a closely guarded secret.

The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.

Four members remain: Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

Among the most prominent members were the loose collective of The Four: acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald, her sister the artist Frances, and her husband, the artist and teacher Herbert MacNair.

alt = Four symbols representing the four members of Led Zeppelin in a horizontal row

Four current or former faculty are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Four team members were crushed to death under the cars and another half dozen seriously injured.

Four of the members of the Assembly form the Executive Council, which devises policy and acts as an advisory body to the Administrator.

* 1959 – Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

* 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

Four years later, PLR members also returned to Paraguay and began participating in the electoral process.

Four members of the Fadayan-e Islam were later executed for the murder.

On each day of the holiday, members of the household recite a blessing over the lulav and etrog ( Four species ).

Four months after they formed, however, the group disbanded when members were unable to agree on operating procedure.

Four members of parliaments in an event of the Unification Church in the Parliament of Great Britain.

* October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members ( see Lufthansa Flight 181 ).

* January 28 – Bal des Ardents: Four members of the court of Charles VI of France die in a fire at a masquerade ball.

* 28 March: Four family members killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home, and shot them.

With army backing and the support of Marshal Ye Jianying, on October 10, the Special Unit 8341 had all members of the Gang of Four arrested in a bloodless coup.

All members of the Gang of Four have since died ; Jiang Qing committed suicide in 1991, Wang Hongwen died in 1992, and Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan died in 2005.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

In the fourth series, in the absence of The Fraser Hayes Four, the cast members were regularly called on to show off their vocal talents.

Mackintosh met fellow artist Margaret MacDonald at the Glasgow School of Art and they became members of a collaborative group known as “ The Four ”.

These close companions would later be known as the collaborative group “ The Four ”, prominent members of the " Glasgow School " movement.

Four years later, he moved to Canada, where he earned a living as a wrestler and heavyweight boxer, with several notable wins in the ring.

* Four Counties Ring-a canal cruising ring that includes part of the Trent and Mersey

Four holes were cut into the ring, three for illumination by a bright light, and another to allow viewing through a microscope.

Four general types of systems are in use ; a cordon area around a city center, with charges for passing the cordon line ; area wide congestion pricing, which charges for being inside an area ; a city center toll ring, with toll collection surrounding the city ; and corridor or single facility congestion pricing, where access to a lane or a facility is priced.

Guerrero was one of the final nine men in the battle royal until he was tossed out of the ring by Four Horsemen members.

These were the Four Avenues, the ring road around the central business district, which restricts cars from doing more than 3 consecutive laps of between 10pm and 5am.

In September 2005, the channel began showing new idents comprising a central BBC Four logo surrounded by four quadrants which show different stages of the same footage thus making for a sort of optical illusion ; for example, a swimming pool where a person on an inflatable ring appears in the bottom-left corner, though ripples don't enter the remaining quarters.

Four further bells, also cast by Taylor, were installed in 2011: two completing the original ring to twelve, and two smaller ones to give the option of a lighter sound.

* Four Counties Ring-a canal cruising ring that includes part of the Shropshire Union

Following his recovery, Eudy was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as the newest member of Ric Flair's Four Horsemen, and he was billed by the ring announcers as being from " wherever he damn well pleases ".

Four judges score the fights in each of the corners in the square ring.

While standing in the ring, surrounded by Ric Flair and newest Horsemen members Steve McMichael and Benoit, Anderson declared that his last official act as the " Enforcer " for the Four Horsemen was to offer his " spot " in the group to Curt Hennig, as he was forced to retire due to extensive neck and upper back injuries.

Lucchino is the only man known to have World Series rings ( Orioles ’ 83, Red Sox ’ 04 and ’ 07 ), a Super Bowl ring ( Redskins ’ 83 ) and a Final Four watch ( Princeton, ’ 65 ).

They feuded heavily with Four Horsemen members Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, who constantly mocked them and attacked them outside of the ring.

In early 2006, recognizing his comparisons to Anderson, he made the request that he be called " The Canadian Enforcer " from that point onward, and began coming to the ring in sequined robes reminiscent of the flashy style popularized by the Four Horsemen and Rick Rude in the late 1980s.

She vanished leaving behind her ring, which is part of the Saint Something Four, the Something Old.

* Four diamonds surrounded by a solid ring

*" Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring ", The Washington Times, November 5, 2005.

* Four Counties Ring-a canal cruising ring that includes the Wardle Canal