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Bandaranaike was born in Colombo, Ceylon to an elite Sinhalese Anglican Christian family and was the son of the powerful Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranike the Maha Mudaliyar ( the chief native interpreter and advisor to the Governor ) of Horagolla Walauwa in Atthanagalla, during British colonial rule.
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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956.
Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959.
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.
Bandaranaike and born
He was born in Kandy as the eldest son of a family of seven children to Andrew Dissanayake who served as an MP and a deputy minister in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party government of S. W. R. D Bandaranaike.
Bandaranaike and Colombo
Bandaranaike International Airport, the country ’ s only international airport, is located in Katunayaka, 35 km ( 22 mi ) north of Colombo.
* 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.
First Sir Arthur C Clarke Memorial Oration, talk delivered at Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies ( ACCIMT ), Colombo, 19 March 2009, Published by Publications and Public Relations Unit, ISRO HQ, 2009
His saffron robes gave him free access to ' Tintagel ', the private residence of Bandaranaike, in Rosmead Place, Colombo.
In his message to the nation from his bed in the Merchant's Ward of the General Hospital in Colombo, Bandaranaike referred to his unknown assassin " as a foolish man dressed in the robes of a monk ", but requested that the authorities " show compassion to this man and not try to wreak vengeance on him.
After completion, it would be one of two international airports in Sri Lanka, after the Bandaranaike International Airport situated at Colombo.
** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport
** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike and Ceylon
G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress ( ACTC ) in 1944.
** Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Ceylon ( b. 1899 )
* July 20 – Ceylon elects Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as its Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
** Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.
** In Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People ’ s Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government.
In 1964, Shastri signed an accord with the Sri Lankan Prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike regarding the status of Indian Tamils in the then Ceylon.
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.
As a young lawyer Bandaranaike became active in the Ceylon National Congress ( CNC ).
* The Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon Bandaranaike
The Sinhala Maha Sabha ( Sinhala: ස ිං හල මහ ා සභ ා) was a political party in Sri Lanka ( Ceylon at the time ) founded by Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike in 1934-35, in order to promote Sinhalese culture and community interests.
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.
" Journalists in Ceylon, however, suggested a different motive: to kill a fellow Buddhist was a sin, which he had committed by killing Bandaranaike, but by converting he would spare the gaolers and hangmen from committing the same sin.
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