Irish political scientist and academic

Louise Richardson

Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York. In January 2016, she became the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly been the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat COVID-19.

Born

1958

June 8

Died

Living

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1950s

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1958 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

218 Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
452 Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1042 Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.

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The world in 1958

When Louise arrived

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Emperor Xizong of Tang (died 888) 862– Jerry Stiller 1927–2020 American actor, comedian and producer (died 2020) John Everett Millais 1829– English painter and illustrator (died 1896) Julianna Margulies 1966– American actress Kathy Baker 1950– American actress Primož Trubar 1508–1586 Slovenian author and reformer (born 1508) Suharto 1921–2008 Indonesian general and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (born 1921) Tomaso Albinoni 1671–1751 Italian violinist and composer (born 1671)

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Adrian Newey 1958– English aerodynamicist and engineer Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Caryl Phillips 1958– Caribbean-English author and playwright Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Chris Columbus 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Sánchez 1958– Mexican footballer, coach, and manager Jennifer Saunders 1958– English actress, comedian and screenwriter

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