Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the seventh and final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.

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1936Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1864)^[†]

Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Venizelos served as prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms from 1910 to 1933.

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TAX RECEIPTS RISE 45% OVER YEAR AGO; Income Payments From Jan. 1 to March 16 $361,428,990 -- $248,060,133 in 1935. TOP TREASURY ESTIMATES Opposition to Re-enactment of Old Process Levies Gains Ground With Returns. TAX RECEIPTS RISE 45% OVER YEAR AGO

BUFFALO AREA GETS 24 INCHES OF SNOW; Soggy Fall Continues and City, Out of Removal Funds, Lets Traffic Halt.

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