At the age of 53

• 15-September-2002 : The Swedish parliamentary election, 2002 leaves Prime Minister Goran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.
• 07-November-2000 : Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
• 07-March-2000 : George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election.
• 21-January-1997 : Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representativestativesto be disciplined internally for ethical misconduct.
• 24-February-1993 : Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
• 26-February-1991 : Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
• 12-April-1988 : Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
• 25-February-1986 : People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president. Salvador Laurel becomes her Vice President.
• 14-October-1981 : Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt 1 week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
• 08-September-1971 : In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Artsis inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's ''Mass''.