Theresa May was born on 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne. A British Conservative politician, May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and became prime minister in July 2016 after David Cameron resigned following the Brexit referendum, the second woman to hold the post after Margaret Thatcher. She triggered the formal process of leaving the European Union in 2017 and called a snap election that year in which her party lost its majority. The withdrawal agreement she negotiated was rejected three times by Parliament, and she announced her resignation in 2019. She left the House of Commons in 2024 and sits in the House of Lords as Baroness May of Maidenhead.
Before and after
- 31 July 1956Construction of Luzhniki Stadium
- 11 August 1956Death of Jackson Pollock
- 14 August 1956Death of Bertolt Brecht
- 31 August 1956Birth of Tsai Ing-wen
- 1 October 1956Birth of Theresa May
- 18 October 1956Birth of Martina Navratilova
- 21 October 1956Birth of Carrie Fisher
- from 23 October 1956 to 10 November 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 28 October 1956Birth of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The era
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