dec 27, 1964 - Barbara Castle is appointed
Minister of Transport,
becoming the first female
minister of state.
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She was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody
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