Margaret Thatcher (Cinco De Mayo)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (born 13 October 1925) is a former British politician who served as Prime Minister of the British Empire from 1984 until its dissolution in 1991, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until stepping down in 1992. She is widely credited with opening up British society in the 1980's and helping end the Cold War, an effort for which she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. With free-market oriented reforms, Thatcher is credited with helping break the power of the British Royal Socialist Party over the country and dissolving the British Empire, which was in economic and political decline by the close of the 1980's due to costly overseas engagements and stagnating policies at home.