When Eskil stepped down as Archbishop of Lund in 1177, he chose Absalon as his successor.

On November 25, 1994, Morita stepped down as Sony chairman after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while playing tennis.

November 25 1994 his stepped down as Sony chairman.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

No. 1 ( Commander / Leader ) for the 2011 – 2012 seasons was originally Commander Dave Koss ; effective 27 May 2011, Koss " stepped down Friday in the wake of a subpar performance at a Virginia air show.

Cuba has been ruled by Castro's Communist Party of Cuba, although Castro himself formally stepped down as leader in 2008, to be replaced by his brother Raúl Castro.

By the time he stepped down in 1988 he had completed 13 years at the production helm.

Capellas stepped down on November 12, 2002, just six months on the job, to become CEO of MCI Worldcom where he would lead its acquisition by Verizon.

In 1849 Atchison stepped down as President pro tempore in favor of William R. King.

It was also the last season as head coach for Adams, who stepped down after the season to concentrate on his duties as general manager.

Raymond stepped down as the president of the Open Source Initiative in February 2005.

* 642: She ascended the throne as Kōgyoku-tennō, and she stepped down in response to the assassination of Soga no Iruka ( see: Isshi Incident ).

After Junna stepped down from the throne, two former Emperors were alive.

Westerwelle stepped down as party leader in 2011 after the party was wiped out in Saxony-Anhalt, Rhineland-Palatinate and lost half its seats in Baden-Württemberg.

" When he stepped down as director he received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Federal Service.

Through a peace settlement arranged by the US charge'd ' affaires in Tegucigalpa, Bonilla stepped down and the war with Nicaragua came to an end.

Veeck would sell his shares in the White Sox in, and Greenberg stepped down as general manager on August 26 of that season.

He retained his posts as foreign minister and vice chancellor through German reunification and until 1992, when he stepped down for health reasons.

Gaddafi stepped down as General Secretary of the General People's Committee in 1977, being succeeded by Abdul Ati al-Obeidi.

He stepped down as expected the same day and was succeeded by Ali Tarhouni.

In 1998 Rau stepped down from his positions as SPD Chairman and Minister President, and on 23 May 1999, was elected Federal President by the Federal Assembly of Germany to succeed Roman Herzog ( CDU ).

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

While the low volume of business conducted by Universal in Germany made such threats largely hollow, the State Department, under pressure from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and the Screen Actors Guild, stepped in and the German government backed down.

Former Wizard / Sporting Kansas City player Sasha Victorine provided color commentary in the beginning of 2011 but stepped down to spend more time with family.

Soon afterwards he stepped down as Blackburn manager to become Director of Football at the club, before leaving altogether in 1996.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

Most French stepped out after independence in 1975.

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

Konaré stepped down after his constitutionally mandated limit of two terms and did not run in the 2002 elections.

Most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being " Love and Death ," which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and " Starbound ," for which Gareth Gwenlan ( who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989 ) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Belbin retired due to ill health afterwards, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon.

Still, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

Coubertin took over the IOC presidency when Demetrius Vikelas stepped down after the Olympics in his own country.

Coubertin created the modern pentathlon for the 1912 Olympics, and subsequently stepped down from his IOC presidency after the 1924 Olympics in Paris, which proved much more successful than the first attempt in that city in 1900.

Many of them stepped out after the recognition of Syrian independence, but their influence is still evident on fluency of French by the educated class in Syria.

Mariette DiChristina is the current editor-in-chief, after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009.

When President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.

Bidders for the club had indicated that Gretzky would no longer be associated with the team after it emerged from bankruptcy, and on September 24, 2009, Gretzky stepped down as head coach and head of hockey operations of the Coyotes.

Shortly after Yahya Khan stepped down, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reversed Rahimuddin Khan's verdict, released Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London.

In the years after The Dance, Christine returned to England to be near her family and stepped out of public view almost completely, although in 2000 she appeared in public to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of Greenwich, England.

She, also, stepped down from her throne on Olympus, after Dionysus was made a God.

Her last words were " Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it ", to Henri Sanson the executioner, whose foot she had accidentally stepped on after climbing the scaffold.

The child had been trailing after his sisters and brothers and stepped off the median strip at the last minute.

Immediately after the sale, Ken Williams stepped down as CEO of Sierra.

The day after the referendum, Parizeau stepped down as PQ leader and Premier of Quebec.

Gilles Duceppe, who had served as interim leader after Bouchard stepped down, became leader of the Bloc in 1997 and remained leader up until 2011, resigning after the 2011 federal election.