Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (born 1906)

J. R. Jayewardene

Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second president of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989. He was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon and served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. A longtime member of the United National Party, he led the party to a landslide victory in the 1977 parliamentary elections and served as prime minister for half a year before becoming the country's first executive president under an amended constitution.

Born

1906

September 17

Died

1996

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1900s

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1996 Died

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1111 Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
1176 The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks.
1382 Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.
1462 Thirteen Years' War: A Polish army under Piotr Dunin decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Świecino.

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The world in 1906

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april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906) Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Buddhadasa 1906– Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993) Chandra Shekhar Azad 1906–1931 Indian revolutionary (born 1906) Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Constance Stokes 1906–1991 Australian painter (died 1991) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 German pastor and theologian (born 1906) Eleanor Hibbert 1906– English author (died 1993) Endre Kabos 1906– Hungarian fencer (died 1944)

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