Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the
United States; he took office January 20, 2017. Previously, he was a real estate mogul, and a former reality TV star. He was born in Queens, New York, in 1946, Trump became involved in large, profitable building projects in Manhattan. In 1980, he opened the Grand Hyatt New York, which made him the city's best-known developer. According to a September 2017 Forbes estimate, Donald Trump’s net worth is $3.1 billion. Of that, $1.6 billion is in New York real estate; $570 million is in golf clubs and resorts; $500 million is in non-New York real estate; $290 million is in cash and personal assets; and $200 million is in brand businesses. That’s down from $3.7 billion in 2016, according to Fortune, mostly due to declining New York real estate values.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and promoting peaceful international relations.
Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in
Privolnoye, Russia. In 1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. He resigned in 1991, and has since founded the Gorbachev Foundation and remains active in social and political causes. MARGARET THATCHER
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), the
United Kingdom’s first female prime minister, served from 1979 until 1990. During her time in office, she reduced the influence of trade unions, privatized certain industries, scaled back public benefits and changed the terms of political debate, much like her friend and ideological ally, U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Nicknamed the “Iron Lady,” she opposed Soviet communism and fought a war to maintain control of the Falkland Islands. The longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, Thatcher was eventually pressured into resigning by members of her own Conservative Party. Margaret Hilda Roberts, later Margaret Thatcher, was born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, a small town in Lincolnshire, England. Her parents, Alfred and Beatrice, were middle-class shopkeepers and devout Methodists. Alfred was also a politician, serving as a town council member for 16 years before becoming an alderman in 1943 and mayor of Grantham from 1945 to 1946. (https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/margaret-thatcher, 2019)
ÁLVARO URIBE VÉLEZ
Álvaro Uribe Vélez was born in July 4th , 1952, Medellín, Colombia, Colombian politician who served as president of Colombia from 2002 until 2010. Uribe earned a law degree from the University of Antioquia, Medellín, and later studied management and administration at Harvard University. In the 1970s, he worked in the state government of Antioquia before serving as secretary general in the Ministry of Labour in Medellín and as a director of civil aeronautics at the national level. He was mayor of Medellín from 1982 to 1984.
During this time his father, a cattle rancher, was slain
during a botched kidnapping by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia; FARC) guerrillas. Uribe served consecutive terms as a national senator between 1986 and 1994 and was governor of Antioquia from 1995 to 1997.