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.

Harold Edward Holt, CH ( 5 August 190817 December 1967 ) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.

* 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.

* 2001 – Harold Stassen, American politician ( b. 1907 )

At the convention, Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the keynote speaker, announced for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

* April 13 – Harold Stassen, American politician ( d. 2001 )

* Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota and perennial candidate

File: Harold Stassen. jpg | Former Governor of Minnesota Harold Stassen

At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

* Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota

Image: Harold E. Stassen. jpg | Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin ; he took 14 delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates.

File: HaroldStassenOfficialOil. jpg | Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

At the 1944 Republican Convention, his chief rivals, Ohio governor John W. Bricker and former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen both withdrew and Dewey was nominated almost unanimously.

In a debate before the Oregon primary with Harold Stassen, Dewey argued against outlawing the Communist Party of the United States of America, saying " you can't shoot an idea with a gun.

* Harold Stassen, former governor, presidential candidate, statesman, and university president

Image: HaroldStassenOfficialOil. jpg | Harold Stassen, the 25th Governor of Minnesota

In 1948, a radio debate was held in Oregon between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold Stassen, Republican primary candidates for president.

* 4 – Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.

The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, and with choreography by Bennett.

In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor who was looking for new fiction, read what she had written and saw that it could be a best-seller.

Harold Eugene " Doc " Edgerton ( April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990 ) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* April 29 – Harold Shapero, American composer

* April 29 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1981 )

After more speeches against the Bill during early 1969 and with left-wing Labour MPs against Lords reform as well ( they wanted its abolition ), Harold Wilson announced on 17 April that the Bill was being rescinded.

In the April 4, 1989 general election Daley faced Aldermen Timothy C. Evans, candidate of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican candidate Edward Vrdolyak, a former Democrat who had antagonized Washington on the city council while Washington served as mayor.

Harold Lee Washington ( April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987 ) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.

Harold Washington was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy and Bertha Washington.

* The Right Honourable Harold Wilson, OBE, FRS, MP ( 6 December 1969 – 23 April 1976 )

* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS, MP ( 23 April 1976 – 9 June 1983 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan ( 15 September 1964 – 2 April 1976 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, OM ( 2 April 1976 – 24 February 1984 )

Eastern Air Lines was a composite of assorted air travel corporations, including Florida Airways and Pitcairn Aviation, the latter of which was established on April 19, 1926, by Harold Frederick Pitcairn, son of Pittsburgh Plate Glass founder John Pitcairn, Jr.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

During this time he once interviewed Mahatma Gandhi in Bombay on his own volition ( 10 April 1945 ). Narayanan then went to England ( 1945 ) and studied political science under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics ( LSE ); he also attended lectures by Karl Popper, Lionel Robbins, and Friedrich Hayek.

Harold Steele, principal of the then new Tucson High School, organized the first Scout troop in Tucson on April 20, 1911.

" In April 2012, Harold was immortalised in wax for the Madame Tussauds attraction in Darling Harbour.

Harold Clifford Keel ( April 13, 1919November 7, 2004 ), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer.

Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

* Harold G. Kiner ( April 14, 1924 – October 2, 1944 ) United States Army Medal of Honor winner was born here.

When the Labour Party came to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, Thomas was made joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, In April 1966 he was appointed Minister of State for Wales, and was one of the first on the scene of the Aberfan disaster in October 1966.

It ended its run at the King's Road Theatre on 31 March 1979 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre ( now the Harold Pinter Theatre ) to begin performances on 6 April 1979.

Premium Bonds were first introduced by Harold Macmillan in his budget of 17 April 1956, with the aim of controlling inflation and to encourage people to save in the period after the war.