[Name] has been described as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world, and the leader of the free world.
He was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate prior to becoming president.
[Name] is best known for his six marriages and, in particular, his efforts to have his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, annulled.
With the 1936 elections, the conservative Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups lost by a narrow margin and the leftist Popular Front came to power.
During his years in power West Germany achieved democracy, stability, international respect and economic prosperity ('Wirtschaftswunder', German for 'economic miracle').
During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior except between March 2004 and May 2005 when he was minister of Finances.
As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.
He went on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in summer 1945 general election.
He is nicknamed Il Cavaliere (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014.
The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant, [name] was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte.
She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children.
A Soviet journalist dubbed her The 'Iron Lady,' a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.
He previously served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
As General Secretary, [name] holds an ex-officio seat on the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body.
During [name]'s rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet military during this time.
[Name] was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled the 21-year authoritarian rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Raised in a poor family in small towns of northern Illinois, [name] graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations.
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