History Hop Tags - Replaces

254-05-12

Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope

757-04-26

Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I

1181-09-01

Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III

1494-01-25

Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples

1543-09-03

Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland

1644-09-15

Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X

1655-04-07

Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII

1689-10-06

Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII

1721-05-08

Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII

1793-11-26

Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

1797-01-01

Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY

1851-01-15

Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera

1862-11-05

Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

1863-01-25

General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1863-03-03

Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired

1863-05-01

Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"

1863-06-25

US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive

1864-06-17

General John B Hood replaces General Johnston

1864-07-17

CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood

1866-05-16

US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)

1866-12-03

Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies

1898-01-01

Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay

1911-12-12

Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

1912-04-27

Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands

1916-08-29

General Paul Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff

1916-12-07

David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British PM

1917-06-23

Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game

1918-12-31

Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager

1919-07-06

William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president

1922-09-09

William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins

1922-10-06

Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia

1923-08-12

Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances

1923-11-20

Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark

1924-01-01

Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP

1925-01-11

Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Sect of State

1925-01-16

Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense

1925-05-30

Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals

1925-06-01

Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)

1925-10-31

Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad as Shah of Persia

1926-05-22

Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

1927-05-09

Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia

1928-04-07

44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1

1929-12-20

Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager

1930-09-25

Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager

1931-03-26

New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies

1932-08-02

Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs

1936-12-10

Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1938-03-11

Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country

1939-02-14

Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind

1940-02-05

Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1944-01-01

Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army

1944-07-02

Field Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt

1944-08-17

German field marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy

1946-05-24

Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager

1946-09-02

Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager

1948-07-16

Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager

1950-10-07

Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head

1951-10-08

Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League

1952-07-28

Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell as Cincinnati Reds manager

1955-02-08

Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him

1956-10-25

White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him

1957-12-16

Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1958-01-26

H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense

1959-08-07

The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design

1960-05-07

Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR

1960-10-20

Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager

1961-11-29

John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA

1962-08-16

Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer

1962-09-11

Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles

1963-06-16

Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister

1964-11-29

Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English

1965-02-15

Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf

1965-03-13

Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

1965-04-28

Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA

1965-04-28

William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA

1965-12-09

Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium

1965-12-15

William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball

1967-01-18

Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada

1967-02-23

Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner

1967-05-12

H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student

1968-02-04

Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball

1968-07-11

Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles

1969-06-08

Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones

1969-12-15

SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

1970-09-28

Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar

1972-08-26

Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros

1973-04-19

Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president

1974-03-04

Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier

1974-04-10

Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir

1975-06-01

Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist

1975-08-01

Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees

1976-01-01

NBC replaces the peacock logo

1976-09-29

Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager

1977-01-30

Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame

1977-07-04

Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie

1977-09-23

Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels

1978-07-25

Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager

1979-05-22

Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada

1979-08-31

Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green

1979-10-28

Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin

1980-07-07

Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA

1980-08-24

Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch

1980-08-26

Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick

1980-09-10

Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick

1980-10-27

Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen

1982-04-18

Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act

1982-04-25

Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael

1982-06-10

John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA

1982-08-03

Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as NY Yankee manager

1984-07-23

Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984

1984-10-01

Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball

1985-03-11

Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

1986-06-20

Jim Fregosi replaces Tony La Russa as White Sox manager

1987-05-26

William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA

1988-04-12

Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Balt Orioles

1988-10-17

Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees

1989-02-02

FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader

1989-03-20

Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA

1989-04-01

A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball

1989-08-18

Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager

1990-06-06

Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager

1991-10-29

Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager

1992-12-02

WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC

1993-12-12

WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC

1995-05-13

Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA

1996-07-01

WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC

1997-05-16

Brandi Sherwood (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA

1997-05-23

Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV

1997-05-25

A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

2017-07-29

Trump replaces chief of staff Priebus with retired General Kelly