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* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

Category: Former British colonies

Category: Former British colonies

Former Head Office of the British Linen Bank in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.

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Category: Former British colonies

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.

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Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Former parts of the British Empire became independent dominions.

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* April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.

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Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.

Category: Former countries in the British Isles

Former Wales and British Lions rugby player John Bevan now teaches at the school.

Category: Former British colonies

Category: Former countries in the British Isles

Category: Former British protectorates

Former British colonies, whose defence had provided much of the rationale for a British military presence in the region, moved towards independence under British governments of both parties.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Prime Minister of Denmark | Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen hold a joint press conference, April 2010.

Former U. S. President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hold a joint press conference outside Marienborg, July 2005.

* 2007 – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.

Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.

Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was working on Japan's economic revival, signed a treaty with Saudi Arabia and UAE about the rising prices of oil.

Former Prime Minister Patterson visited Washington, DC, several times after assuming office in 1992.

* 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

Former Prime Minister of Canada.

* 1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.

* 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

* 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.

Former Prime Minister and Influential Leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has expressed his support for Nepali Congress ( Democratic ).

* 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.

Image: Margaret Thatcher awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush in 1991

Image: Blair MOF. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Image: Howard MOF. jpg | Former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard receiving the Medal from George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, represented Sedgefield in County Durham from 1983 to 2007.

Former Prime Minister John Turner, who as a child knew Bennett while he was prime minister, praised Bennett's promotion of Turner's economist mother to the highest civil service post held by a Canadian woman to that time.

* 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

Former Prime Minister Edward Natapei became interim prime minister until a new leader could be elected.