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Ricardo Lagos
b. 1938
Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
- Born
- 2 Mar 1938 · Santiago
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 2 Mar 1938BornBorn in Santiago
- 1990 – 1992RoleMinister of Education of Chile
- 1991AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
- 1994 – 1998RoleMinister of Public Works of Chile
- 2000 – 2006RolePresident of Chile
- 2000AwardMedal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- 2000AwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2001AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross
- 2001AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
- 2001AwardGrand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
- 2002AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2002AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 2002AwardGrand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)
- 2004AwardCollar of the Order of the Star of Romania
- 2004AwardGrand Order of King Tomislav
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1938 – today).
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
Biography
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾojˈlan ˈlaɣos eskoˈβaɾ]; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.
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