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Bandaranaike ; January 8, 1899 – September 26, 1959 ) was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon ( later Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959.
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Bandaranaike International Airport is the most common direct stop out of the Maldives as it is served by SriLankan Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Emirates who operate a combined total of up to 8 flights daily between Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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* 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister ( d. 1959 )
** Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Ceylon ( b. 1899 )
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* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )
* 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.
* 1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
* July 20 – Ceylon elects Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as its Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
* The IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo – Sri Lanka's only international airport
* May 3 – A bomb believed to have been planted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonates aboard Air Lanka Flight 512, the Lockheed L-1011-385 TriStar City of Colombo, while it is on the ground at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, with 148 people on board.
Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho better known as Talduwe Somarama ( 1915 – 1962 ) shot and killed Solomon Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ( then called Ceylon ) in 1959.
* Weeramantry, L. G: Assassination of a Prime Minister – The Bandaranaike Murder Case, Geneva, 1969.
** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport
** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport
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Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959.
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Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.
Meir was Israel's first woman prime minister, and the third in the world ( after Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Indira Gandhi ).
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956.
SLFP was founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who was the Cabinet minister of Local Administration, before he left the UNP in July 1951.
On June 9, 2009, Rae was denied entry by Sri Lankan Immigration officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka on grounds that he was " a threat to national security and sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers rebel group ".
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (, ) born June 29, 1945 ) was the 5th President of Sri Lanka, serving from November 12, 1994 to November 19, 2005.
Hailing from one of the most prestigious aristocratic families that has a long history in the socio-political arena of the country, her father, S. W. R. D Bandaranaike was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became Prime Minister.
Chandrika's mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, then became the world's first female prime minister in 1960 and her brother Anura Bandaranaike was a former Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former minister.
He was found to be involved in the assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali by a presidential commission appointed by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
Bandaranaike was able to take advantage and lead the SLFP to victory in the 1956 elections.
Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike ( Sinhala: ස ි ර ි ම ා ව ෝ රත ් වත ් ත ේ ඩයස ් බණ ් ඩ ා රන ා යක ) ( Tamil: ச ி ற ி ம ா வ ோ ரத ் வத ் த டயஸ ் பண ் ட ா ரந ா யக ் க );( April 17, 1916October 10, 2000 ) was a Sri Lankan politician and the modern world's first female head of government.
Bandaranaike was the widow of a previous Sri Lankan prime minister, Solomon Bandaranaike and the mother of Sri Lanka's fourth Executive President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, as well as Anura Bandaranaike, former speaker and cabinet minister.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was born on April 17, 1916, as Sirimavo Ratwatte to a prominent Radala family, who were descended from Ratwatte Dissawa, Dissawa of Matale, a signatory on behalf of the Sinhalese to the Kandyan Convention of 1815.
Bandaranaike was educated at St Bridget's Convent, Colombo, but was a practising Buddhist.
Bandaranaike was a socialist who continued her husband's policies of nationalizing key sectors of the economy, such as banking and insurance, and also nationalizing all schools then owned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1961.
Bandaranaike was on a roller-coaster ride from the moment she took office.
Bandaranaike had disbanded the government's intelligence service, suspecting that it was loyal to the opposition United National Party ( UNP ).
Bandaranaike held her own seat in 1977, but in 1980, she was charged with abuse of power for the 1975-77 delay in elections.
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Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
In 1964, Shastri signed an accord with the Sri Lankan Prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike regarding the status of Indian Tamils in the then Ceylon.
Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike with Soviet Union Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, Tissa Wijeyeratne and Anura Bandaranaike
The ULF broke down in 1964 when the then Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike offered ministerial posts to LSSP and the CP.
* The Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon Bandaranaike
She was the world's third longest-serving female Prime Minister, behind Indira Gandhi of India and Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and the world's longest continuously serving female Prime Minister ever.
* A. C. Alles, Famous Criminal Cases of Sri Lanka, Volume III: The Assassination of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike ( Dec-1979 ): Published by the author.
* Lucian G. Weeramantry, The Assassination of a Prime Minister-The Bandaranaike Murder Case ( Hardcover, Geneva, Switzerland, 1969 ).
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