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Anne Begg
1955Dec, 6

Anne Begg

Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician
Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South between 1997 and 2015.

She chaired the Work and Pensions Select Committee between 2010 and 2015, and was the first permanent wheelchair user in the House of Commons since Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh in 1880.

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Events on 1955

  • 7Jan

    Metropolitan Opera

    Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
  • 13Feb

    Dead Sea Scrolls

    Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • 18Feb

    Nevada Test Site

    Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  • 14May

    Warsaw Pact

    Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
  • 23Oct

    State of Vietnam referendum, 1955

    Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.