Iranian journalist, politician and scientist, first woman Vice President of Iran

Masoumeh Ebtekar

Masoumeh Ebtekar is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs from 2017 to 2021. Her appointment to the Cabinet of Iran in 1997 marked her as the institution's third female member overall and the first female member since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She is currently a full-time professor in the Immunology Department of the School of Medical Sciences at Tarbiat Modares University in the city of Tehran.

Born

1960

September 21

Died

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1960s

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Key dates

1960 Born

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455 Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1170 Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Anglo-Norman invaders.
1217 Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Caupo of Turaida are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
1435 The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.

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The world in 1960

When Masoumeh arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918 Ottoman sultan (born 1842) Don Dunstan 1926–1999 Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (born 1926) Doug Moe 1938– American basketball player and coach (died 2026) Ethan Coen 1957– American director, producer, and screenwriter Gustav Holst 1874–1934 English trombonist, composer, and educator (born 1874) Henry Gibson 1935–2009 American actor (born 1935) Howie Morenz 1902–1937 Canadian ice hockey player (born 1902) Israel Katz 1955– Israeli politician Johanna Vuoksenmaa 1965– Finnish director and screenwriter

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Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach

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