6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (died 2018)

Peter Carington

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington later served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Group's meetings from 1990 to 1998.

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1919

June 6

Died

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1910s

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913 Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander on his deathbed.
1505 The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, causing severe damage in Kathmandu and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain.
1513 War of the League of Cambrai: In the Battle of Novara, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.

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The world in 1919

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april 10 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
april 10 The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
april 13 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.
april 16 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.

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Colin Quinn 1959– American comedian and actor Karl Ferdinand Braun 1850–1918 German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850) Kenny Pickett 1998– American football player Klaus Tennstedt 1926– German conductor (died 1998) Ninette de Valois 1898– English ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 2001) Sunil Dutt 1929–2005 Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005) Thomas Mann 1875–1955 German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)

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Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) Clifton McNeely 1919– American basketball player and coach (died 2003) David Willcocks 1919–2015 English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015) Doris Lessing 1919–2013 British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919) Edward Brooke 1919–2015 American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (born 1919) Émile Bouchard 1919–2012 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919) Eva Gabor 1919–1995 Hungarian-American actress (died 1995) Eva Perón 1919–1952 Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919)

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