At the age of 68

• 23-April-2005 : Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, rereforms the government after its dissolution 3 days earlier.
• 31-December-1999 : Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
• 09-August-1999 : Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• 05-November-1991 : The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 25-March-1990 : Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.
• 15-October-1980 : James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party.
• 28-October-1962 : Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
• 13-July-1962 : In what the press dubs the "the Night of the Long Knives", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses 1/3 of his Cabinet.
• 18-March-1959 : American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
• 08-January-1959 : Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.