South Yemen



1959-1967


YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER HIGH COMMISIONER
1959 11 february Federation of Arab Emirates of the South under UK rule Sir William Henry Tucker Luce
1960 23 october Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston
1962 4 april Federation of South Arabia under UK rule Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston
1963 17 january Hassan Ali Bayumi
1963 9 july Zayn Abdu Baharun Sir Gerald Kennedy Nicholas Trevaskis
1964 21 december Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull
1965 7 march Abdel-Qawi Hasan Makkawi
1965 25 september Ali Musa id al-Babakr
1966 30 august Salih al-Awadli
1967 22 may Sir Humphrey Trevelyan

1967-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER
1967 30 november Popular Republic Qahtan Muhammad ash-Shabi -
1969 22 june Salem Ali Rubayyi Mohammed Ali Haithem
1970 30 november Popular Democratic Republic Salem Ali Rubayyi Mohammed Ali Haithem
1971 2 august Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani
1978 1 july Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani (I)
1978 27 december Abd al-Fattah Ismail
1980 21 april Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani (II)
1985 14 february Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (I)
1986 24 january Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Yasin Said Numan
1990 22 may Union to Yemen
1994 21 may Democratic Republic Ali Salim al-Baidh Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (II)
1994 7 july Reunion to Yemen


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