program. 1  Obs. a proclamation. a prospectus or syllabus. 2  the acts, speeches, musical pieces, etc. that make up an entertainment, ceremony, etc. a printed list of these. 3  a scheduled broadcast on radio or television. 4  a plan or procedure for dealing with some matter.
Trent Affair: 1861-1862. The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
John Profumo in 1960, at his desk as Secretary of State for War. The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan 's government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.