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1 day ago · Golda Meir was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 3, 1898, and passed away in Jerusalem on December 8, 1978. She was the first female Prime Minister of Israel, and also the first female occupant of the role in the entire Middle East. Meir signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence, becoming the first female head of state in the Middle East, and ...
3 days ago · David Ben-Gurion (born October 16, 1886, Płońsk, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died December 1, 1973, Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel) was a Zionist statesman and political leader, the first prime minister (1948–53, 1955–63) and defense minister (1948–53; 1955–63) of Israel. It was Ben-Gurion who, on May 14, 1948, at Tel Aviv ...
1 day ago · Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc was a young French woman who led the French army to important victories during the Hundred Years' War with England. She's considered a "hero" in France. Margaret Thatcher ...
5 days ago · Jawaharlal Nehru (born November 14, 1889, Allahabad, India—died May 27, 1964, New Delhi) was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence ...
- Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of India after it gained independence. He previously was one of the prominent leaders of the Indian N...
- Jawaharlal Nehru had a largely Western upbringing. As a boy, he was homeschooled in India, mostly by a series of English governesses and tutors. He...
- Jawaharlal Nehru was a key leader of the Indian National Congress and the independence movement. He often balanced the religiosity and traditionali...
- Jawaharlal Nehru helped lead India to independence, which ended the British raj. As India’s first prime minister, he worked to make India an import...
3 days ago · Angela Dorothea Merkel ( German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ⓘ; [a] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician and chemist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the ...
2 days ago · David Ben-Gurion ( / bɛnˈɡʊəriən / ben GOOR-ee-ən; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן [daˈvid ben ɡuʁˈjon] ⓘ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel as well as its first prime minister. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later ...
3 days ago · Sheikh Hasina. Sheikh Hasina Wazed ( Bengali: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again since January 2009. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first ...
