#OnThisDay, 25 July 2007, Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's President. She is the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 23 July 2001, Megawati Sukarnoputri becomes the first woman to be President of Indonesia.

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"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

#OnThisDay, 12 July 1972, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black US Presidential candidate, winning 152 votes in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.

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#OnThisDay, 8 July 2010, Iveta Radicova becomes Prime Minister of Slovakia as leader of a centre-right coalition. She is the first woman to hold the post, but is ousted in 2012 and retires from politics.

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#OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Ciller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She is the first woman to hold the post.

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#OnThisDay, 13 Jun 1993, Kim Campbell wins the Canadian Progressive Conservative Party leadership election making her the new Prime Minister of Canada. She is sworn in on 25 June, becoming the first woman to hold the post.

She lost her seat, and her party lost the general election, in October 1995.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Jun 2009, Rose Francine Rogombé is sworn in as interim President of Gabon, the first woman to hold the role. She holds the role for four months until a new President is elected and she then returns to her post as President of the Gabon Senate.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1929, Margaret Bondfield becomes Minister of Labour in the UK government. She is the first woman to hold a British Cabinet post.

[photo (c) National Portrait Gallery London]

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#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 2009 Meira Kumar is elected unopposed as speaker of Lok Sabha (India's House of the People). She is the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 26 May 2010, Kamla Persad-Bissessar is the first woman to be sworn in as Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is currently the leader of the opposition.

In 2010 she also became the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations.

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#OnThisDay, 25 May 2018, Mia Mottley is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Barbados. She is the first woman to hold the role, and has since been re-elected.

Under her leadership, Barbados became a republic, 55 years after it declared independence from Britain.
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#OnThisDay, 4 May 1979, Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the UK for the first time. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister, and was re-elected twice.

As PM she oversaw the privatisation of state-owned utility companies and the closure of the British mining industry.

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#OnThisDay, 2 May 1999, Mireya Moscoso is elected as President of Panama, winning nearly 45% of the vote. She is the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected the tradition of abstention to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected the tradition of abstention to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

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#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed US ambassador to Denmark.

As well as being the first woman to be appointed as a US Ambassador, she had been the first woman elected to Congress by the state of Florida in 1928. Earlier in the 1920s she had been one of a number of women directing films in the silent era.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 2012, Joyce Banda is sworn in as President of Malawi, the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 2010, Roza Otunbaeva is appointed interim president of the provisional government of Kyrgyzstan, the first woman to hold the role.

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#OnThisDay, 4 Apr 2014, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was sworn in as President of Malta. She is the second woman to hold the post.

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