English politician

Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.

Born

1954

May 2

Died

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1950s

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1954 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1194 King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter.
1230 William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1250 Mamluks under Baybars murder the Ayyubid sultan Turanshah for fear of losing their privileges.
1388 The surrender of the Acropolis of Athens to Nerio Acciaioli ends the Catalan presence in the Duchy of Athens.

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The world in 1954

When Dawn arrived

april 1 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
april 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
april 22 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
april 25 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 2

Athanasius Kircher 1601–1680 German priest and scholar (died 1680) Elias Boudinot 1740–1821 American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (died 1821) John André 1750–1780 English soldier and spy (died 1780) Patrick Hillery 1923–2008 Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (born 1923) Vicente Martín y Soler 1754– Spanish composer (died 1806)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1954

Alan Kulwicki 1954–1993 American race car driver (born 1954) Annie Lennox 1954– Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist Archie Griffin 1954– American football player Chris Huhne 1954– English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Clem Burke 1954–2025 American drummer (born 1954) Cliff Martinez 1954– American drummer and songwriter David Keith 1954– American actor and director David Lee Roth 1954– American singer-songwriter and producer Dennis Haysbert 1954– American actor and producer

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