• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt?
• after just two months as Bishop, Jakob Sverdrup Smitt was replaced by his cousin at the appointment of his uncle, Norwegian Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup?
• the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
• The Happy Land, a play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, was briefly banned in 1873 for portraying a singing, dancing Prime Minister Gladstone (newspaper illustration pictured)?
• Moth Ki Masjid (pictured) was a new type of mosque built in 1505 by Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during Sikander Lodi's reign in the fourth city of medieval Delhi of Delhi Sultanate?
• British free market economist Ralph Harris, considered to be an architect of Thatcherism, became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
• Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru?
• Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six?

Facts on topics related to Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls?
• David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?
• British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins's promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan?
• Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire, for use as the official country residence of the British Prime Minister?
• Cambridge House on Piccadilly used to be home to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
• John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister, sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II?
• St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
• Terry Major-Ball, elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
• although British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced in 1972 that hooding was illegal, British soldiers were engaging in the practice in the Iraq War?
• an edition of BBC radio programme Any Questions?, featuring former Prime Minister Edward Heath, was broadcast live from St Philip's Church, Hove in 1995?

Prime Minister of Canada

• U.S. President LBJ once battered Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson over Canada's Vietnam War policy?
• Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King rebounded from the 1931 Beauharnois scandal to be elected to another 13 years in office?
• Édouard Richard, a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian, practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
• William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa, Canada, because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father?
• former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau?
• in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?

Prime minister

• British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?