Megawati Soekarnoputri was born on 23 January 1947 in Yogyakarta. An Indonesian politician and the daughter of Sukarno, the country's first president, Megawati led the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle against the authoritarian rule of Suharto. After Suharto's fall in 1998 her party won the largest share of votes in the 1999 election, and she became vice president under Abdurrahman Wahid. When Wahid was removed from office by the legislature in 2001, she took over as the first woman to be president of Indonesia. Her government dealt with the Bali bombings and separatism in Aceh. She lost the 2004 election to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and has remained a powerful figure in her party.
Before and after
- 1947Discovery of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite
- 1947Construction of John F. Kennedy International Airport
- 1947The Dead Sea Scrolls are found
- 8 January 1947Birth of David Bowie
- 23 January 1947Birth of Megawati Soekarnoputri
- 10 February 1947Paris Peace Treaties
- 11 February 1947Birth of Yukio Hatoyama
- 23 February 1947Founding of International Organization for Standardization
- from 27 February 1947 to 16 May 1947228 Incident
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