Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.

Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.

He was joined in this action by the later prime minister, Harold Wilson.

( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.

He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, and led Harold Wilson in the 1960s to put in place rules to prevent phone tapping of members of parliament for example.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

The Holts meeting with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Prime Minister of the U. K Harold Wilson and Mrs Wilson in 1967.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

* 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1995 )

* 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.

His first Cabinet appointment was as Employment secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan.

He only returned to the Parliamentary Labour Group in 1963 when Harold Wilson became Labour leader after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell.

Harold Wilson – the subject of an enthusiastic campaign biography by Foot published by Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press in 1964 – offered Foot a place in his first government, but Foot turned it down.

When, in 1974, Labour returned to office under Harold Wilson, Foot became Secretary of State for Employment.

The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14 % of the entering class.

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

" Buckland notes that Bush directed creation of a photoelectronic microfilm ' rapid selector ' at MIT during 1938-1940 using stroboscope technology pioneered by his colleague Harold Edgerton.

These southern hostilities were ended by British mediation during Harold Wilson's era, and both sides accepted the award of the Indo-Pakistan Western Boundary Case Tribunal designated by the UN secretary general himself.

In 1975, Giuliani switched his party registration from Democratic to Independent as he was recruited to Washington, D. C. during the Ford administration, where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Harold " Ace " Tyler.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

They personally accepted their awards from Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, during their tour.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

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.

Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October of that same year, fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of England.

Huels sided against Mayor Harold Washington during the " Council Wars " era.

By some accounts, Harold and Dorothy had simply grown apart after Washington was sent to war during the first year of his marriage.

The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the 1950s and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS.

WWII: The Army Air Corps piano was an acoustic instrument invented by Harold Rhodes during World War II in an effort to create a piano that injured soldiers could play while lying in a hospital bed.

Harold Rhodes himself never kept any records of production, but during the 1970s it might have reached ten thousand instruments each year.

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II.

Lieutenant Colonel William Harold Dunn ( 1898-1955 ) wrote a medical and psychiatric report on him in prison to evaluate him as a suicide risk: He gave the impression of clinging to his own theories in a fanatical and unyielding fashion and to have been little influenced by the unfolding during the trial of the cruelty and crimes of the party.

* 1971: Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times, " for his music criticism during 1970.

Experimental side-scan sonar systems were made during the 1950s in laboratories including Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Hudson Laboratories and by Dr. Harold Edgerton at MIT.

Modest multicultural policies were adopted by local administrations from the 1970s and 1980s onwards, initially during the Labour government of Harold Wilson.

His Labour predecessor as prime minister, Harold Wilson, had inherited an unemployment count of around 400, 000 at the time of his general election win of October 1964 but seen unemployment peak at 631, 000 during the spring of 1967, though it had fallen to 582, 000 by the time Heath seized power in June 1970.

Thom's lectures on the stability of differentiable mappings, given at Bonn in 1960, were written up by Harold Levine and published in the proceedings of a year long symposium on singularities at Liverpool University during 1969-70, edited by Terry Wall.

What is known is that with reported worldwide sales of 750m, Harold Robbins sold more books than J. K. Rowling, earned and spent $ 50m during his lifetime, and was as much a part of the sexual and social revolution as the pill, Playboy and pot.