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Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
Margaret Thatcher History: November 28, 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
November 22, 1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
January 3, 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century
June 11, 1987 - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term
May 24, 1986 - Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel
December 19, 1984 - China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
October 12, 1984 - IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
June 9, 1983 - Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
January 9, 1983 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
July 9, 1982 - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
May 3, 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain
February 20, 1975 - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
December 13, 1951 - Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
October 13, 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 More Notable Events on February 11: 1993 Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General
1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens
1929 Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome
1878 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat
