* 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U. S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

* 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister, ending the rule of James Callaghan's Labour government.

* February 24 – Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms.

* February – Olaf II of Denmark becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margaret as regent.

* Margaret of Parma becomes Governor of the Netherlands in place of her brother, King Philip II of Spain.

* October – Margaret I of Denmark becomes Regent of Denmark after the death of her father Valdemar IV.

In this book, Margaret survives and escapes ( in the care of other, older children ) to Scotland, where she eventually becomes an ordinary little girl, in an ordinary family, and is absorbed into ordinary Scottish culture.

* October 28 – Eric of Pomerania becomes sole ruler of the Kalmar Union ( Sweden, Denmark and Norway ) upon the death of Queen Margaret.

Lucentio becomes Gainlove, Petruchio is Manly, Katherina becomes Margaret ( nicknamed Peg ) and Baptista is Sir William Worthy.

* March 16-Royalist William Cavendish is created Duke of Newcastle ; his wife, Margaret Cavendish, becomes duchess.

In Kitty at St. Clare's, Alison starts worshipping Margaret Winters, the deputy head girl, who becomes head girl after framing Jenny Mills.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " It's the kind of sweet, good-humored comedy that used to star Margaret Rutherford, although Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, its daring top-liners, would have curled Dame Margaret's eyebrows ... That the movie works, and it does, is mostly because of the charm of Mirren and Walters, who show their characters having so much fun that it becomes infectious.

* April 11-Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.

When Margaret becomes pregnant in " Do Not Forsake Me O ' My Postman " ( 1993 ) with another man's baby, Cliff stays with her side and decides to be the stepfather of her baby.

Margaret becomes an equally pretentious character, and enthusiastically agrees with all of Stanley's beliefs.

# Stanley literally becomes a fly on the wall in a morgue, where the inspector is showing Margaret various dead bodies, hoping that she will identify one as Stanley.

It soon becomes apparent, however, that Margaret is actually George's wife.

The Wicked Lady is a 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who secretly becomes a highwayman for the excitement.

An old park that he and Margaret designed becomes scheduled to be torn down.

The Palmer family have further problems as David becomes involved with Margaret Dunne as she nurses him following the shooting and this finally ends his marriage to Beryl once and for all but David's happiness with Margaret is short lived when a plane crash leaves Margaret fighting for her life.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.

Subsequent research by the likes of Hutton and Heselton has shown that in fact the New Forest coven was probably only formed in the early 20th century, based upon such sources as folk magic and the theories of Margaret Murray.

If Orderic Vitalis is to be relied upon, one of Malcolm's earliest actions as King may have been to travel south to the court of Edward the Confessor in 1059 to arrange a marriage with Edward's kinswoman Margaret, who had arrived in England two years before from Hungary.

Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action / animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.

In 1345 the emperor further antagonized the lay princes by conferring Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland upon his wife Margaret of Holland.

In 1457, Albert arranged a marriage between his eldest son John, and Margaret, daughter of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, who inherited the claims upon Hungary and Bohemia of her mother, a granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund.

Her eldest sister Margaret married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1324 ; and in 1345, she became the suo jure Countess of Hainaut upon the death of their brother William in battle.

To strengthen his claim and unite the two feuding nobel houses, Elizabeth and Margaret agreed that Henry should marry Edward IV and Elizabeth's oldest daughter, Elizabeth of York, who upon the death of her brothers became the Yorkist heiress.

They later proceeded by ship to Scotland, where Margaret gained troops and other aid for the Lancastrian cause from the Queen and Regent, Mary of Guelders, in return for the surrender of the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed.

* Tony Blair, depicted with the same mad, staring eye as Margaret Thatcher and a very pointed head which, along with his ears, can be used to make any object ( speed cameras, pylons, giant eye, poodle ) represent him, playing upon his increasingly authoritarian image.

After crossing the border at Berwick upon Tweed on 1 August 1503, Margaret was met by the Scottish court at Lamberton.

Joan was implicated in Queen Margaret's adultery case during 1314 ; Margaret was accused and convicted of adultery with two knights, upon the testimony of their sister-in-law, Isabella.

Drawing upon the work of Margaret Murray and Robert Graves, Stone postulates a prehistoric matriarchal religion, painting ancient societies, including Ancient Egypt as matriarchal paradises, destroyed by the patriarchal Indo-Europeans.

Memorabilia collectors Steve Neimand and Mark Nash were attending a flea market in 1995 when Neimand spotted a small Oscar with Margaret O ' Brien's name inscribed upon it.

The two had met earlier, after Bateson and Margaret Mead had called upon him to analyse the films Mead had made of trance states in Bali.

Escape Me Never is a play written by Margaret Kennedy based upon her 1930s novel The Fool of the Family.

In the case of the Queen's sister, The Princess Margaret, her ex-husband, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, became the Earl of Snowdon upon marriage, with the subsidiary title, Viscount Linley.

* On December 27, probably 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary reported that Jesus permitted her, as he had formerly allowed St. Gertrude, to rest her head upon his heart, and then disclosed to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of his goodness, and that he had chosen her for this work.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

Following the sudden death of John Smith from a heart attack on 12 May 1994, Margaret Beckett became Labour leader, the Party's constitution providing for the automatic succession of the deputy leader for the remainder of the leadership term, upon the death or resignation of an incumbent leader in opposition.

Ramsay already had to maintain a daughter from his previous marriage as well as his two surviving sisters, but told Sir Alexander that he could provide Margaret with an annual income of £ 100 which would increase ‘ as my affairs increase, and I thank God, they are in a way of increasing ’ and that his only motive for the marriage was ‘ my love for your Daughter, who, I am sensible, is entitled to much more than ever I shall have to bestow upon her ’.

Michael and Margaret stumble upon " The Master " ( Tom Neyman ) and several women dressed in translucent nightgowns, later revealed to be his wives, who are asleep.

Other popular parodies by Carpi include Guerra e Pace ( 1986, based upon War and peace by Leo Tolstoy ), Paperino e il vento del Sud ( 1982, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ), Paperino e il giro del mondo in otto giorni ( 1962, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne ), Paperin Caramba y Carmen Olè ( 1979, Carmen by Georges Bizet ), Paolino Pocatesta e la bella Franceschina ( 1980, Inferno by Dante Alighieri ), Topolino corriere dello Zar ( 1966, Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne ), La metamorfosi di un papero ( 1991, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ).