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Here’s a have a look at the lifetime of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990.
Personal:
Birth date: October 13, 1925
Death date: April 8, 2013
Birth place: Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
Birth title: Margaret Hilda Roberts
Father: Alfred Roberts, grocer
Mother: Beatrice Ethel (Stephenson) Roberts, grocer
Marriage: Sir Denis Thatcher (December 13, 1951-June 26, 2003, his loss of life)
Children: Mark and Carol (twins), August 15, 1953
Education: Somerville College at Oxford College, Chemistry, 1943-1947. Passed the bar, 1953
Other Facts:
The first feminine prime minister of Great Britain.
Called the Iron Lady, for private and political toughness.
Only British prime minister of the twentieth century to win three consecutive phrases. (Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s first of three phrases started within the twentieth, however ended within the twenty first.)
During her time as prime minister, she emphasised the rights of the person versus that of the state, ethical absolutism and nationalism.
In her first time period, Thatcher diminished or eradicated many authorities subsidies to enterprise, a transfer that result in a pointy rise in unemployment. By 1986, unemployment had reached 3 million.
Enjoyed an in depth friendship and dealing relationship with President Ronald Reagan, with whom she shared comparable conservative views.
Timeline:
1950 – Runs unsuccessfully for Parliament.
1959 – Wins a seat within the House of Commons by successful the Conservative seat in Finchley, in north London.
1961-1964 – Serves as a parliamentary secretary within the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
1969-1970 – Serves as chief opposition spokesperson on schooling.
1970-1974 – Secretary of State for schooling and science within the Conservative authorities of Edward Heath.
1975 – Is elected chief of the Conservative Party.
1976 – In a speech, she lashes out towards Communism. This causes the Soviet press to nickname her the “Iron Lady.”
May 4, 1979 – Becomes prime minister after main the Conservatives to electoral victory.
April 2, 1982 – Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. Thatcher instantly authorizes forces to recapture the Falklands. After a number of months of combating, Argentine troops give up on June 14, 1982.
June 9, 1983 – Wins re-election in a landslide and positive aspects a parliamentary majority with simply over 42% of the vote.
1984 – Escapes an IRA terrorist bombing in Brighton on the annual Conservative Party convention.
June 11, 1987 – The Conservative Party wins its third normal election.
1989 – Thatcher introduces the ballot tax, a cost levied on group residents slightly than property. The unpopular tax results in rioting within the streets, and Thatcher’s ouster by Conservative Party politicians frightened that the tax and Thatcher’s unpopularity would carry down the occasion.
November 1990 – Is pressured to resign as prime minister after a management battle inside her personal occasion.
March 7, 1991 – Receives the US Medal of Freedom from President George Bush.
June 5, 1992 – Is named a life peer on the Queen’s honor listing. Thatcher’s title is Baroness.
June 30, 1992 – Swearing-in ceremony on the House of Lords, the place Thatcher formally turns into the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
July 1, 1993-June 30, 2000 – Is chancellor of the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
February 4, 1994 – Formal investiture as chancellor of the College of William and Mary.
1995 – Her autobiography, “The Path to Power,” is printed.
March 22, 2002 – Retires from public life after struggling a sequence of small strokes.
June 11, 2004 – Attends Ronald Reagan’s funeral companies.
September 2005 – The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom is established.
August 2008 – Daughter Carol confirms Thatcher is affected by dementia, first seen in 2000.
December 30, 2009 – The British National Archives releases the 1979 state papers from Thatcher’s early months as prime minister.
April 8, 2013 – Dies after struggling a stroke.