Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.

Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker ( May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990 ) and Berniece Graf ( May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995 ).

Harold Godwinson became king, in all likelihood appointed by Edward the Confessor on his deathbed and endorsed by the Witan.

* Hancock, Ian ( 2000 ), ' Harold Edward Holt ,' in Michelle Grattan ( ed.

( 1936 ) and his Ph. D. ( 1943 ) in political science, from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Harold Lasswell and Charles Edward Merriam.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

One Nation Conservatism was the party's dominant ideology in the 20th century until the rise of Thatcherism in the 1970s, and included in its ranks Conservative Prime Ministers such as Stanley Baldwin, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath.

Finally, on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, Harold became king, reuniting the earldom of Wessex with the crown.

There were other potential claimants, including the powerful English earl Harold Godwinson, who was named the next king by Edward on the latter's deathbed in January 1066.

William argued that Edward had previously promised the throne to him, and that Harold had sworn to support William's claim.

It may have been Norman propaganda designed to discredit Harold, who had emerged as the main contender to succeed King Edward.

Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels, and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar.

One story, deriving from the Vita Edwardi, a biography of Edward, claims that Edward was attended by his wife Edith, Harold, Archbishop Stigand, and Robert FitzWimarc, and that the king named Harold as his successor.

* 1066: Edward the Confessor dies ; Harold Godwinson is killed in the Battle of Hastings, while the Norman Bastard is crowned William I of England.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

* June 18 – United Kingdom general election, 1970: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister, ousting the Labour government of Harold Wilson after nearly six years in power.

* February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

* Lyndon B. Johnson often met with important advisors at the retreat and hosted Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.

* 1967 – Harold Holt, Australian politician ( b. 1908 )

Harold Holt in the 1930s

Harold and Zara Holt in 1950.

Harold Holt was the elder of Thomas and Olive ( Williams ) Holt's two children.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at The Pentagon in July 1966.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1966.

Journalist Ray Martin made a documentary, Who Killed Harold Holt ?, screened in November 2007, which suggested that Holt might have committed suicide.

Melbourne's Harold Holt Swim Centre Photo by Lincoln Ponton

Harold Holt is most famously commemorated by the Harold Holt Swim Centre in the Melbourne ( Australia ) suburb of Glen Iris.

In 1968 the newly commissioned United States Navy Knox class destroyer escort USS Harold E. Holt ( FF-1074 ) was named in his honour.

* the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt

* the Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves – five protected areas in southern Port Phillip, located at Swan Bay, Point Lonsdale, Mud Islands, Point Nepean and Pope ’ s Eye ( The Annulus ).

By way of a folk memorial, he is recalled in the Australian vernacular expression " do a Harold Holt " ( or " do the Harry "), rhyming slang for " do a bolt " meaning " to disappear suddenly and without explanation ", although this is usually employed in the context of disappearance from a social gathering rather than a case of presumed death.

* Harold Holt and LBJ-YouTube Video Documentary

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Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC ( 6 November 1906 – 13 March 1990 ) was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.

The seat of Higgins was created in 1949 and held by Harold Holt CH 1949-1967, Sir John Gorton PC GCMG AC CH 1968-1975, Roger Shipton OAM 1975-1990, Peter Costello 1990-2009 and Kelly O ' Dwyer since 2009 ( all on behalf of the Liberal Party of Australia ).

* Rt Hon Harold Holt, CH MP: Prime Minister

* Rt Hon Harold Holt, CH MP: Prime Minister

Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson CH, PC ( 25 January 1910, Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, Bosham ) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.