Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was born on 29 April 1968 in Rijeka. A Croatian diplomat and politician, Grabar-Kitarovic served as the President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020, the first woman to hold the post. A member of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union, she studied in Zagreb and Washington and worked as Croatia's foreign minister, ambassador to the United States and later as an assistant secretary-general of NATO. As president she promoted closer ties with the United States and the Three Seas Initiative, and attracted wide attention when she attended the 2018 World Cup in Russia in support of the Croatian team, which reached the final. She lost her re-election bid in 2020.
Before and after
- 2 April 1968Release of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 4 April 1968Launch of Apollo 6
- 4 April 1968Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 7 April 1968Founding of Club of Rome
- 29 April 1968Birth of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
- from 2 May 1968 to 23 June 1968May 68
- 13 May 1968Birth of Scott Morrison
- 26 May 1968Birth of Frederik X of Denmark
- 28 May 1968Birth of Kylie Minogue
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The era
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