Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1925)

Allan Blakeney

Allan Emrys Blakeney was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982. Originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, and worked in the province's civil service before running for office with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) under Tommy Douglas. Blakeney became leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1970. Altogether, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1960 to 1988.

Born

1925

September 7

Died

2011

Era

1920s

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Allan, in brief

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Key dates

1925 Born
2011 Died

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878 Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
1159 Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli is elected Pope Alexander III, prompting the election of Cardinal Octaviano Monticelli as Antipope Victor IV the same day.
1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1228 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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The world in 1925

When Allan arrived

april 10 The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
april 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
april 17 The Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in Japanese-ruled Korea (Chōsen) in Keijō (now Seoul) by Kim Yong-bom and Pak Hon-yong.
april 19 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.

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Abdurrahman Wahid 1940–2009 Indonesian journalist and politician, fourth President of Indonesia (born 1940) David Cannadine 1950– English historian and author Diane Warren 1956– American songwriter Don Messick 1926–1997 American voice actor and singer (born 1926) George Hirst 1871– English cricketer and coach (died 1954) Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836–1908 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836) James Van Allen 1914–2006 American physicist and academic (born 1914) Julie Kavner 1950– American actress Kiyosi Itô 1915–2008 Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915)

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Albert Bandura 1925– Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2021) Alexander Shulgin 1925–2014 American pharmacologist and chemist (died 2014) Arkady Ostashev 1925–1998 Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (born 1925) Art McNally 1925– American football referee (died 2023) Carlos Castaneda 1925–1998 Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925) Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Chuck Bednarik 1925–2015 American lieutenant and football player (born 1925) Dominick Dunne 1925–2009 American journalist and novelist (born 1925) Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013 American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (died 2013)

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