Ursula von der Leyen was born on 8 October 1958 in what is now Belgium. A German physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union, von der Leyen served in the cabinet of Angela Merkel for fourteen years, as minister of family affairs, labor and then defense, before being nominated as President of the European Commission in 2019. Born in Brussels, the daughter of a long-serving state premier, she was the first woman to lead the Commission. Her term has covered the COVID-19 pandemic and its vaccine procurement, the European Green Deal, the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and negotiations on trade and migration. She was re-elected for a second term in 2024.
Before and after
- 30 August 1958Birth of Anna Politkovskaya
- from 1 September 1958 to 1 June 1976Cod Wars
- 22 September 1958Birth of Andrea Bocelli
- 1 October 1958NASA is founded
- 8 October 1958Birth of Ursula von der Leyen
- 9 October 1958Death of Pius XII
- 23 December 1958Construction of Tokyo Tower
- 1959Invention of Floyd–Warshall algorithm
- 1959Construction of Ngorongoro Conservation Area
More in Science & technology
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- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
The era
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