Condoleezza Rice was born on 14 November 1954 in Birmingham. An American political scientist and diplomat, Rice served as National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005 and as Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009, under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to be National Security Advisor and the first Black woman to be Secretary of State. A specialist in Soviet and Eastern European affairs, she had been provost of Stanford University. She was a key figure in the response to the September 11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and diplomacy over Iran and North Korea. After leaving office she returned to Stanford, directing the Hoover Institution. She is also an accomplished pianist.
Before and after
- from 1 November 1954 to 9 September 1962Algerian War
- 3 November 1954Death of Henri Matisse
- 8 November 1954Birth of Kazuo Ishiguro
- 11 November 1954Publication of The Two Towers
- 14 November 1954Birth of Condoleezza Rice
- 19 November 1954Birth of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
- 28 November 1954Death of Enrico Fermi
- 9 December 1954Birth of Jean-Claude Juncker
- from 15 December 1954 to 10 October 2010Netherlands Antilles
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 12 March 1947 to 25 December 1991Cold War
- from 3 April 1948 to 1 December 1951Marshall Plan
- 10 December 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 26 July 1953Cuban Revolution
- from 14 October 1962 to 28 October 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 26 December 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The era
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