Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes world's first female PM
1960 · Event
The Sri Lankan leader becomes the first woman ever elected head of government.
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- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
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Around 1960
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)