* 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.

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.

Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister in January ( 1976 )

Meir was Israel's first woman prime minister, and the third in the world ( after Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Indira Gandhi ).

Following the parliamentary election in July 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the prime minister and the world's first elected female head of state.

* 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.

The LSSP joined the coalition government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, three of its members, NM Perera, Cholmondely Goonewardena and Anil Moonesinghe, becoming the first Trotskyist cabinet ministers in history.

In 1964, Shastri signed an accord with the Sri Lankan Prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike regarding the status of Indian Tamils in the then Ceylon.

* Sri Lanka: In 1972, the Government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, through the Land Reform Law, imposed a ceiling of twenty hectares on privately owned land and sought to distribute lands in excess of the ceiling for the benefit of landless peasants.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They were expelled in 1964 after demanding a discussion of the significance of the Sri Lankan LSSP's entry into the government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

He served as Governor-General during the tenure of different governments headed by the SLFP led regime of Sirimavo Bandaranaike and the UNP led regime of Dudley Senanayake.

In 1978, Kumaratunga married Chandrika Bandaranaike, daughter of the late Sri Lankan prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike and former prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

The policy of standardization by the Sirimavo government to rectify disparities created in university enrollment, which was in essence an affirmative action to assist geographically disadvantaged students to obtain tertiary education, resulted in reducing the proportion of Tamil students at university level and acted as the immediate catalyst for the rise of militancy.

During this time Sirimavo was brought forward as legitimate successor to her husband's party leadership and she entered politics.

In 1960 M. P. de Zoysa Jnr stepped down from his seat in the Senate ( appointed upper house of Parliament ) paving the way for Sirimavo to be appointed as a member of the Senate from the SLFP.

His cadres campaigned openly for the United Front of Sirimavo R. D.

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.

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956.

The Federal Party ( FP ) launched a movement of non-violent resistance ( satyagraha ) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement ( Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact ) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict.

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.

G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress ( ACTC ) in 1944.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

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.

People who have been described as Buddhist socialists include Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Han Yong-un, U Nu and Norodom Sihanouk.

# REDIRECT S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike ( Sinhala: ස ො ලමන ් ව ෙ ස ් ට ් ර ි ජ ් ව ේ ඩයස ් බණ ් ඩ ා රන ා යක ) ( Tamil: ச ா லமன ் வ ெ ஸ ் ட ் ர ி ச ் சர ் ட ் டயஸ ் பண ் ட ா ரந ா யக ் க ா) ( frequently referred to as S. W. R. D.

It was founded by S. W. R. D Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena.

In retrospect it has become the traditional wisdom to say that it was not the Old Left but the SLFP which benefited from the hartal in the form of the popular upsurge of 1956 which felled the UNP and brought S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike to power as prime minister.

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.

# REDIRECT S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.

* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.

* 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister ( d. 1959 )

Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959.