When the Labour government fell in 1979, the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher won a victory which served to push the Liberals back into the margins.

When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-old Louis relayed the election returns from the telephone in his father's store.

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 Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.

When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein.

When that was not forthcoming, he and three other Welsh Liberals ( David Alfred Thomas, Herbert Lewis and Frank Edwards ) refused the whip on 14 April 1892 but accepted Lord Rosebery's assurance and rejoined the official Liberals on 29 May.

When Labour won more seats ( though fewer votes ) than the Conservative Party in February 1974 and Heath was unable to persuade the Liberals to form a coalition, Wilson returned to 10 Downing Street on 4 March 1974 as Prime Minister of a minority Labour Government.

When Menzies ' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.

When a new election was called, Clark expected his party would be able to defeat the demoralized and leaderless Liberals easily, since Trudeau had announced his intention to step aside.

When Mulroney took over the reins of the Progressive Conservatives, Trudeau's Liberals attacked them with the slogan " Bring back Joe!

When the dissident Liberals eventually formed the Liberal Unionist Council, which was to become the Liberal Unionist party, Chamberlain organised the separate National Radical Union in Birmingham.

When the 1954 elections brought to power a coalition of Socialists and Liberals, the new Education Minister, Leo Collard, immediately set out to reverse the measures taken by his predecessor, sparking mass protests by the Catholic bloc.

When the Liberals turned him down, Layton announced he would introduce a motion requesting a February election.

When the Liberals came to power under Jean Chrétien following the 1993 election he became Minister of Industry.

When the Liberals returned to power in August 1892, Spencer was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty *.

When the Liberals and Irish Nationalists ( which were a majority in the new Parliament ) successfully voted against the government, Salisbury resigned the premiership on 12 August.

" When Stewart too went down to defeat in 1935, King was pleased " not to have to consider him " in assembling his new cabinet, and opted instead to leave Alberta unrepresented to punish it for failing to elect any Liberals.

When the Liberals went into opposition in December 1972, Peacock became a senior member of the Liberal frontbench.

When Prime Minister Malcom Fraser lost in March 1983, The Liberals were in opposition for the first time since 1975, with intally Andrew Peacock as opposition leader ( 1983 – 85 ), then John Howard ( 1985 – 89 ), then Andrew Peacock again ( 1989-1990 ), and then John Hewson.

When the accord expired in 1987, Premier David Peterson called an election and the Liberals were re-elected with a large majority.

When asked why he had joined the Liberal party in the early 1960s, he replied that the Liberals were a party without a general and that he was a general without a party.

When the Liberals again returned to power in 1905 he took office, aged 78, as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.

When the Liberals split in 1886 on the issue of Irish Home Rule, Lubbock joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule.

When Giulio died unexpectedly of a throat abscess in 1915, Enrico was distraught, and immersed himself in scientific study to distract himself.

When a misfire or jam occurs, gun safety dictates that the handler should exercise extreme caution, as a cartridge whose primer has been struck in a misfire or which has been deformed in a jam can discharge unexpectedly.

When he unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 1975, his share of TSR passed to his wife, a woman whom Gygax characterized as " less than personable ... After Don died she dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch.

When Charles Bluhdorn died unexpectedly, his successor Martin Davis dumped all of G + W's industrial, mining, and sugar-growing subsidiaries and refocused the company, renaming it Paramount Communications in 1989.

When the Crusader force — reckoned to be the largest the kingdom ever produced from its own resources, but still outmatched by the Muslims — advanced, the Ayyubids unexpectedly moved down the stream of Ain Jalut.

When the radius of Vega was measured to high accuracy with an interferometer, it resulted in an unexpectedly large estimated value of times the radius of the Sun.

When the killers ( who had expected to kill Moran and maybe two or three of his men ) were unexpectedly confronted with seven men, they simply decided to kill them all and get out fast.

When shared between threads, however, even simple data structures become prone to race hazards if they require more than one CPU instruction to update: two threads may end up attempting to update the data structure at the same time and find it unexpectedly changing underfoot.

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

When, however, the only legitimate son of his uncle, Leopold II, died as a child, and Albert's older brother, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, who had been subsequently prepared for the throne, also died young, Albert, at the age of 16, unexpectedly became second in line ( after his father ) to the Belgian Crown.

When Harry graduates from college, he unexpectedly brings home a wife, whose father has offered Harry an excellent job.

When Jan returns to Earth, approximately 80 years later by Earth time, he finds an unexpectedly altered planet.

When Kaye unexpectedly died in 1975, Blume's father, Melvin, purchased Kaye's shares, and the company was re-formed as TSR Hobbies.

When Random House returned an unexpectedly high percentage the year's inventory of unsold novels and sets of Dragon Dice for a fee of several million dollars, TSR found itself in a cash crunch.

When Willus unexpectedly died, he inherited the gold watch and chain, in a collection of his personal belongings, which shortly disappeared, and he never recovered it.

When Hephaestion unexpectedly died in 324 BC, he was appointed his successor as commander of the Companion cavalry and chiliarch ( vizier ).

Jennie Tuttle Hobart remembered, " When this attractive young law student appeared in our home I, then a young girl in my teens, unexpectedly played a rôle of importance by losing my heart to him ".

When Elvis Presley walked in unexpectedly, Johnny Cash was called into the studio by Phillips, leading to an impromptu session featuring the four musicians.

When Muldoon unexpectedly called an early general election, the Labour Party adopted Palmer ’ s paper as its economic policy.

When the governor of Transalpine Gaul, Metellus Celer, died unexpectedly, this province was also awarded to Caesar.

When the long-term operator died unexpectedly, the carousel was put up for auction, with fears that it would leave Coney Island or be broken up for sale to collectors.

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

When Max unexpectedly finds out that he is moving to Chicago after his father, Donald " Don " Keeble ( Robert Carradine ), gets a promotion, Max is initially upset at having to move, but later plots to exact revenge against Jindrake, Troy, Dobbs, and the Evil Ice Cream Man, believing that when they try to retaliate, Max will be gone.

When each of Bertha's four brothers died leaving no issue, William's marriage became unexpectedly valuable.

When Porco's plane is finished, he is unexpectedly joined by Fio on his flight home, with the justification that if the secret police ( who have been discreetly observing them ) arrest the team, they can say that Porco forced them to help and took Fio as a hostage.