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Israeli premier Golda Meir resigns in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war. |
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U.S. President Richard M. Nixon resigns during the Watergate Scandal. |
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Robert E. Lee, offered command of the Union Forces, resigns from the U.S. Army so that he may command the forces of the South. |
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Lord North resigns as British Prime Minister |
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Jose Ignacio Lopez, an executive of Volkswagen, resigns today under the charge of industrial espionage against General Motors, his former employer. |
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Ireland's premier Jack Lynch resigns |
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Robert Malval, the premier of Haiti, resigns.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, resigns. |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns. He would be re-elected on May 13, 2001. He is ranked on Forbes' list as the wealthiest politician in the world, with an estimated $10.3 billion new worth. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev announces his resignation as head of the Soviet Union |
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Iraq's President Al-Bakr resigns and is succeeded by Vice-President Saddam Hussein. |
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Pope John Paul II accepts the resignation of Boston Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law. |
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill announces his resignation. |
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The Bush White House accepts resignation of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt. |
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Israeli Labor Party leader Benjamin Ben-Eliezer resigns from government after Ariel Sharon rejects deal to save coalition. |
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Martha Stewart resigns from the board of the New York Stock Exchange. |
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Karen Hughes, advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush, resigns. |
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Argentina's President Fernando De la Rua resigns. |
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The President of Senegal , Leopold Senghor, resigns. |
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Gary Winnick, Chairman of Global Crossing resigns following complaints that he sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of company stock in advance the company's bankruptcy declarations. |
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Embattled Enron Chairman, Kenneth Lay, resigns claiming that Federal inquiries are distracting him from his efforts to rescue the company |
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The Chief Operating Officer at AOL Time Warner, Robert W. Pittman, resigns under pressure from investors unhappy with the merger between AOL and Time Warner. |
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CEO Michael Cannon resigns from Maxtor to take the CEO position at Solectron. |
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Col. William Mitchell resigns from the U.S Army and commences a four-month, coast-to-coast lecture tour in which he shows films of his successful airplane bombings of captured German war ships. |
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Afghan King Amanullah is forced to resign and be replaced by his brother, Inayatullah. |
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Juan Perón offers to resign the presidency of Argentina and the CGT organizes a general strike. |
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The German government accepts Gen. Erich Ludendorff's resignation. He is replaced by Groener. |
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Former Pentagon official Richard Perle resigns as chairman of a group that advises Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on policy issues, to avoid the controversy over his business dealings. |
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Einstein resigns from the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
and declares that he will not return to Germany. |
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Embattled U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman over the Watergate Break-in Scandal. |
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Resignation