page_title: April 1969
section_title: April 28, 1969 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1969 / April 28, 1969 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Pas de lieu. Le 23 Avril 1969. Vue de messieurs Poher, Monnerville et Eeckhoutte donnant une conférence de presse.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1969:
context_section_description: Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before, abiding by a pledge to step down if the voters showed no confidence in his plan, and bringing an end to 11 years in office.  In a brief statement issued from his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, de Gaulle announced, "I am ceasing the exercise of my functions as President of the Republic.  This decision takes effect at noon today."   "With a complete absence of formality," the Associated Press noted, Alain Poher, the President of the French Senate, was named as the Acting President of France by being delivered a letter from the French Constitutional Council advising him that a vacancy in the presidency existed and noting that the constitution authorized him to serve as the chief executive until elections could be held for a new President.
  Terence O'Neill resigned as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland after seven years in office and increasing civil rights violence between the UK nation's Protestant majority and Roman Catholic minority.  O'Neill had previously advocated a gradual reform of Northern Ireland's political system.
caption: Acting French President Poher
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