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MARGARET THATCHER
1925 - ...
Maggie Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts. She was Britain's
prime minister from 1979 - 1990, and what a performance the woman
gave...
Margaret Thatcher's Family
Margaret's father was Alfred Roberts. Her mother was
Beatrice Ethel Stephenson.
Maggie did many things you didn't. She studied chemistry at Oxford,
worked as a chemist, practiced law, had twins, became Great
Britain’s first woman prime minister, led her country through the
Falkland Island War, almost died in a terrorist attack,
shook Ronald Reagan's hand repeatedly, was called Iron
Lady, and was (finally) made Baroness.
MARGARET
THATCHER QUOTES
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
As God once said, and I think rightly...
It may be the cock that crows, but it is
the hen that lays the eggs.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If
you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Look at a day when you are supremely
satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing
nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON Margaret Thatcher
October 12, 1984, Brighton, England - The following is a brief
excerpt from the brilliant book Just 2 Seconds (Gavin de
Becker et al.)
Three weeks before Thatcher was to
attend the Tory conference, IRA bomber Patrick Magee
checked into room 629 at the Grand Hotel.
He spent 24 days tearing down a
bathroom wall, loading 100 pounds of gelignite explosive inside
the space, rigging a delay timer, and then rebuilding the wall
without leaving a trace.
The bomb exploded, killing four,
wounding 34, and destroying the hotel. Thatcher was in her room
five floors below, but was not injured. A sweep with bomb dogs
had missed the bomb because it was on a floor above the
conference.
Check out
Assassinations in History.
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