When the Liberals were defeated at the 1972 election by the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam, he became a member of the opposition front bench under Billy Snedden's leadership.

When Whitlam won the election, McMahon resigned the Liberal leadership and was replaced by Snedden, who became the new Opposition Leader.

When Kerr announced his resignation as Governor-General on 14 July 1977, Whitlam commented, " How fitting that the last of the Bourbons should bow out on Bastille Day.

When Whitlam finally led Labor to office at the 1972 election, Crean became Treasurer, although Whitlam had no real confidence in him.

When McMahon was defeated by the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam in 1972, Snedden was duly elected Liberal leader.

When he failed to make any headway against Whitlam, Fraser mounted a second challenge, and Snedden was deposed in March 1975, becoming the first leader of the Liberal Party not to gain the Prime Ministership.

When the national service scheme was ended following the election of the Whitlam Government in late 1972, the 3rd Division lost a large number of personnel.

When Fraser was appointed Prime Minister following the dismissal of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, he gave Chipp three portfolios in his caretaker ministry — Social Security, Health, and Repatriation and Compensation.

When he told Whitlam they both laughed.

When the McMahon government was defeated by Labor under Whitlam in December 1972, Wentworth returned to the backbench.

When Whitlam responded by immediately calling an election for both the House and Senate ( a double dissolution ), McManus informed the Victorian Central Executive that Billy Snedden had agreed to the Liberals running a joint Senate ticket with the DLP, which would have guaranteed him a winnable Senate spot.

When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.

When Anne and her brother returned home for the holidays in June 1846, she resigned her position.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.

When the Nazis came to power, there was only one resignation from the Foreign Office: German Ambassador to the United States Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron resigned because he could not in good conscience serve the Nazi regime.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

When she resigned, Short denounced " the centralisation of power into the hands of the Prime Minister and an increasingly small number of advisers " The Butler Review of 2004 condemned Blair's style of " sofa government ".

When the war was over, he quarreled with the Emperor, resigned and spent the rest of his life in Europe.

When Labor reinstated the more radical Ted Theodore as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet.

When the university officials reneged on their promise, Appleton resigned and accepted a position at Harvard College.

When the litigation concluded, Lemoine resigned from SACEM and set up a shell company, Arima, with Alexandre Taverne for collecting Ravel's royalties.

When Hickey unexpectedly resigned in February 1999, Martin was in a position to succeed her, and was soon appointed as Opposition Leader.

When his older brother Ezekiel's studies required Webster's support, the young man resigned from the law office and worked as a schoolteacher — as young men often did then, when public education consisted largely of subsidies to local schoolmasters.

When Harold Wilson resigned in 1976, Callaghan was elected the new Labour leader.

When Fraser became Liberal leader in 1975, Gorton resigned from the party, sat as an independent, and openly campaigned against Fraser, whom he detested.

When he resigned to run for the presidency in 1999, Rosario Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City.

When economic hardships were causing many architectural practices to close in 1913, he resigned from Honeyman and Keppie and attempted to open his own practice.

When Pierre Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader in 1979 following an election loss, Turner announced that he would not be a candidate for the Liberal leadership.

When Clark received an endorsement by only 66. 9 per cent of delegates at the party convention in January 1983 in Winnipeg, Clark resigned and ran to regain his post at the 1983 leadership convention.

When Cain resigned after a collapse in his political support in August 1990, Kirner was elected Labor leader and thus became Victoria's first female Premier.

When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members.

When the ALP split over conscription during the First World War in 1916, Earle, a pro-conscriptionist, followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out of the Labor party.

When Strickland objected, stating that such a course was unfair to Labor, Holman had him replaced.

When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.

* When Hurricane Frances hit South Florida on Labor Day weekend ( over 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County ), 9, 800 Miami-Dade applicants were approved by FEMA for $ 21 million in storm claims for new furniture ; clothes ; thousands of new televisions, microwaves and refrigerators ; cars ; dental bills ; and a funeral even though the Medical Examiner recorded no deaths from Frances.

When Scullin resigned as Labor leader in 1935, Curtin was unexpectedly elected ( by just one vote ) to succeed him.

When Labor won the 1929 election, he became Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs in the Scullin government.

When conflict with the Groupers precipitated a national split in the ALP, leading to the formation of the breakaway Democratic Labor Party ( DLP ), the national organisation of the AWU swung its support behind ALP leader Dr H. V. Evatt and disbanded the Groups.

When Julia Gillard became Prime Minister on 24 June 2010 after the parliamentary Labor Party decided to replace Kevin Rudd as leader, she declared that she would not move into The Lodge until she had " fulsomely earned the trust of the Australian people to be prime minister " at an election ; instead, she remained living in her home in Altona in Melbourne and her flat in Canberra.

When Seidel returned to the United States he joined the Socialist Labor Party of America.

When President Barack Obama altered federal guidelines in April 2010 governing the employment of unpaid interns under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Stossel criticized the guidelines, appearing in a police uniform during an appearance on the Fox News program America Live, commenting, " I ’ ve built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great – I learned more from you than I did in college.

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When Labor came to power under John Curtin in 1941, Evatt became Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs ( Foreign Minister ).

When Ben Chifley ( still Labor leader ) died suddenly a few months later, Evatt was elected unopposed as his successor.

When the New York courts ruled decisively in favor of the claim of DeLeon, Kuhn, and the Regulars in the matter of the ownership of the name, logo, and publication of the Socialist Labor Party, against the claim of the dissidents, the Rochester group changed the name of their organization to " Social Democratic Party of America ," anticipating a rapid merger with Berger, Debs, and the Midwestern organization of the same name.

When the first federal Parliament was elected in 1901, Cook was elected, unopposed by Labor, member for Parramatta, a seat which then included the Lithgow area.

When Labor won a surprise victory at the election, Madden found himself appointed Minister for Sport and Recreation, despite having no prior political experience.

When Munro Ferguson granted Cook a double dissolution, he was furiously denounced by the Labor Party, who maintained that Cook was manipulating the Constitution to gain control of the Senate.

When Hughes was expelled from the Labor Party after the first referendum, Munro Ferguson allowed him to stay in office as a minority Prime Minister and encouraged Hughes and Cook to form a new party, the Nationalist Party, on a " win the war " platform.

When the Republicans took control of Congress in 1947, Taft focused on labor-management relations as Chair of the Senate Labor Committee.