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Events on Tuesday 11 February 1975 1
1975Margaret Thatcher elected Conservative Party leaderFirst woman to lead a major UK political partyMargaret Thatcher defeated incumbent Edward Heath to become leader of Britain's Conservative Party on 11 February 1975. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She went on to become prime minister in 1979.