When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

In 1982, the post of Chairman was abolished, and the General Secretary, at this time held by the same man as the post of Chairman, once again became the supreme office of the Party.

Capellas, Compaq's last Chairman and CEO, became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, to ease the integration of the two companies.

He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions ; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.

Whipple thus became Professor and Chairman of Pathology and the founding Dean of the new School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

The leader of the center-left New Union ( also known as the Social Liberal party ), Artūras Paulauskas, became the Chairman of the Seimas.

In February 1941, Beria became Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and in June, following Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, he became a member of the State Defense Committee ( GKO ).

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

On the 19th of July 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitional government.

After three years of consolidating his power, Kim Jong-il became Chairman of the NDC on October 8, 1997, a position described by the NDC as the nation's " highest administrative authority ," and thus North Korea's de facto head of state.

He emerged as the leader of the Party's right wing, which included two other Politburo members Alexei Rykov, Lenin's successor as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and Mikhail Tomsky, head of trade unions, and he became chairman of Comintern's executive committee in 1926.

General Myers became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on October 1, 2001.

He then became Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( a newly established body with legislative and executive powers for what was described as a transitional period ), and assumed the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed forces, and minister of defense.

Since Jiang Zemin became the national party chief in June 1989, all but one former Shanghai party chief was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body in China, including Jiang Zemin ( General secretary and President ), Zhu Rongji ( Premier ), Wu Bangguo ( Chairman of the National People's Congress ), Huang Ju ( Vice Premier ), and Xi Jinping ( Vice President ).

Eventually he became the Chairman of ICANN.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

Immediately after graduation from Oxford in 1910, Moseley became a demonstrator in physics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Sir Ernest Rutherford.

In the textile sector, such mills became the model for the organisation of human labour in factories, epitomised by Cottonopolis, the name given to the vast collection of cotton mills, factories and administration offices based in Manchester.

The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.

Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

Relegated again in 1931, Manchester United became a yo-yo club, achieving its all-time lowest position of 20th place in the Second Division in 1934.

In 1957, Manchester United became the first English team to compete in the European Cup, despite objections from The Football League, who had denied Chelsea the same opportunity the previous season.

In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.

In the 1998 – 99 season, Manchester United became the first team to win the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League – " The Treble " – in the same season.

The Manchester Poetry Festival's Richard Michael became interested in sponsoring this event, and Henry Normal, an up and coming poet, initially decided to sponsor it himself.

During 1955 and 1956 the Manchester College of Science and Technology achieved independent university status under its own Royal Charter and became separately funded from the University Grants Committee.

This partial list of alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University includes some who attended institutions which became part of present-day MMU.

In 1800, Dalton became a secretary of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and in the following year he orally presented an important series of papers, entitled " Experimental Essays " on the constitution of mixed gases ; on the pressure of steam and other vapours at different temperatures, both in a vacuum and in air ; on evaporation ; and on the thermal expansion of gases.

It later passed through Manchester Green, where the post road became reconnected with Route 6, and, for the first time, U. S. Route 44.

In its own time, the London and national papers shared the horror felt in the Manchester region, but Peterloo's immediate effect was to cause the government to crack down on reform, with the passing of what became known as the Six Acts.

In response, coupled with the lack of suffrage in northern England, a " great assembly " was organised by the Manchester Patriotic Union, a group agitating for parliamentary reform, formed by radicals from the Manchester Observer: founder and journalist Joseph Johnson became secretary of the union, editor James Wroe its treasurer.

After a brief period as medical officer for Hatfield College, Durham, and temporary work for the National Coal Board, he became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1977.

The chief architect of VME / B was Brian Warboys, who subsequently became professor of software engineering at the University of Manchester.

When Sturgeon moved to Manchester in 1840, Joule and he became the nucleus of a circle of the city's intellectuals.