Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian politician who served as the prime minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, as the chairman of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2005, and as the third president of Mongolia from 2005 to 2009. He is the first person to have held all three top positions in the Mongolian government. Enkhbayar was also the chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1997 to 2005 and the head of the splinter party with the same name, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, from 2010 to 2021. Due to his corruption scandal, he is regarded by the public media as the "godfather" of corruption in Mongolian politics.

Born

1958

June 1

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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1958 Born

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1298 Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
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1495 A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

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The world in 1958

When Nambaryn 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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