The following year, Raúl Castro became Acting President, replacing his brother as the de facto leader of the country.

Acting quickly before all parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and the Governor-General dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November – December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation.

In 1943 Stillman left for war work and Gode became Acting Director of Research.

Animosity developed between Earle Page and Menzies which was aggravated when Page became Acting Prime Minister during Lyons ' illness after October 1938.

Ten days after the battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, the Secretary left for a massage, and Roosevelt became Acting Secretary for four hours.

The CPRR Engineering Department was taken over by Samuel S. Montegue as his successor as Chief Engineer, and Chief Assistant Engineer ( later Acting Chief Engineer ) Lewis Metzler Clement who also became Superintendent of Track.

Acting and characterization became more elaborate.

W. T. Pearce became Acting Headmaster until Hughes returned at the end of the war.

Acting quickly before all ALP parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and Kerr dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

In 1969, Scofield became the sixth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Male of the Species.

On December 15, 2005 Shaath became Acting Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority after Ahmad Qurei resigned.

Lt. Frank X. McKenna became the Acting Chief of Police and in 1989 was promoted to Chief.

In July-August 1912, General Ma Fuxiang was " Acting Chief Executive Officer of Kokonur " ( de facto Governor of the region that later became Qinghai ).

That same year, Félix Eboué became the Acting Governor of the island, and an American, Frank Perret, established Le Musée Volcanologique at Saint Pierre.

* The death of William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, in 1841: no President had ever before died in office, and the Constitution did not specify whether the incumbent Vice President John Tyler became President or Acting President.

Following their discovery of the then unknown Brian Nelson's fingerprints on security documents, the Inquiry team encountered a wall of silence as they tried to investigate further: Brian Fitzsimmons, Acting Head of the RUC's Special Branch, became evasive telling Stevens: We can't help you with this man ; and, at the Grosvenor Road station, Nelson's card in the intelligence card system was initially whipped away from the investigators.

Michael Wynne-Parker had been Principal Secretary from the late 1970s, and following the Marquess of Bristol's death also became the league's Acting Chancellor until 1987 when Count Nikolai Tolstoy was appointed to that position.

Acting on these ideas, the Communist International became less revolutionary and more willing to compromise with " reactionary " forces, for example by advising its Chinese section to back the Kuomintang's efforts to unify China.

Also, United States Senator Lafayette Foster later became Acting Vice President after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

President Sherrill resigned in December 1958 and Harvey became Acting President General of the UNIA.

From 11 October 2000 to 26 October 2000, following the death in office of the then First Minister Donald Dewar, his deputy Jim Wallace became Acting First Minister, until the Labour party appointed a new leader, and consequently First Minister.

Wallace also became Acting First Minister between 8 November 2001 and 22 November 2001, following the resignation of Henry McLeish.

In 1972, LuPone became one of the original members of The Acting Company, formed by John Houseman.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.

President Kasavubu became exasperated with Lumumba and fired him.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* Revolution of 1930: Second military overthrow of government, in which President Washington Luís was replaced by Getúlio Vargas, who became the Provisional President.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

Beech became President of the Curtiss-Wright's airplane division and VP of sales, but became dissatisfied with being so far removed from aircraft production and quit to form Beechcraft, using the original Travel Air facilities and employing many of the same people.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

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

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

Yen's presidency was interim ; Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the Premier, became President after Yen's term ended three years later.

When Chiang became President of China after the Northern Expedition, he carved out Ningxia and Qinghai out of Gansu province, and appointed Muslim Generals as Military Governors of all three provinces: Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Qi.

He traveled extensively and became a member of the Foreign Policy Association, and was called upon to advise then – U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

In 1956, Rogers became the first President of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.