1977 Event Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election 1960 Event In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM 1960 Event Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon 1959 Death Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1959 Death S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk 1956 Event Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon 1956 Event M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon 1916 Birthday Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77 1899 Birthday Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon, 1956-59
