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2012 Event - Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2012 Event - Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo 2012 Event - The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked 2012 Event - U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro, says America 'is ready' to attack Iran to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons 2011 Event - In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee 2010 Event - The U.N. environment agency appoints actor Don Cheadle Goodwill Ambassador at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day 2010 Event - Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing 2010 Event - According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years 2003 Death - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001, died from complications from an appendectomy 2002 Death - Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94 1997 Event - 1st U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam 1997 Death - Pamela Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to France, dies of stroke at 76 1996 Event - "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk," opens at Ambassador Theater New York City 1995 Event - "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City 1995 Event - "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 40 performances 1995 Event - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 40 performances 1994 Event - Dutch Ambassador to U.S. christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton) 1991 Death - Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 1991 Event - Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union 1990 Event - U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait 1990 Event - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait 1990 Event - U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute 1990 Event - U.N. appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador 1989 Death - Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies 1989 Event - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances 1988 Death - William V Shannon, U.S. ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61 1988 Event - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 176 performances 1988 Death - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies 1988 Event - "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 46 performances 1988 Event - "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 46 performances 1987 Event - "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 177 performances 1987 Event - "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 177 performances 1987 Event - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador New York City after 13 performances 1987 Event - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador New York City for 13 performances 1986 Death - Chester Bowles, U.S. senator/ambassador, dies at 85 1985 Event - "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 120 performances 1985 Event - "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 120 performances 1984 Death - Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90) 1983 Death - Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered 1982 Event - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf 1982 Event - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances 1982 Event - Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians 1982 Death - Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies 1981 Event - Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1981 Event - China throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan 1980 Event - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador New York City after 149 performances 1980 Event - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador New York City for 149 performances 1979 Event - Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage 1979 Event - "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 439 performances 1979 Event - Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador 1979 Event - Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador 1979 Death - ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered 1979 Death - Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1979 Death - Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered 1978 Event - "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances 1977 Event - U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa 1977 Event - Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon 1976 Event - Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN 1976 Birthday - Nwankwo Kanu, born in Owerri, Nigeria, professional soccer player, member of the Igbo, UNICEF ambassador, most decorated soccer player in history 1976 Death - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1976 Death - Francis E Meloy, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed 1976 Death - J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered 1975 Event - "Me and Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 453 performances 1975 Death - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris 1975 Event - "Me and Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 453 performances 1975 Event - Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain 1975 Birthday - Angelina Jolie, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Academy-Award winning movie, 'Girl, Interrupted', works with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador 1974 Event - 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague 1974 Death - ... Davies, U.S. ambassador on Cyprus, murdered 1974 Event - U.S. ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check 1973 Event - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam 1973 Death - Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated 1972 Event - "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 9 performances 1972 Event - "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 9 performances 1970 Event - Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar 1970 Event - "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 119 performances 1970 Event - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 119 performances 1969 Event - "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 110 performances 1969 Event - "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 110 performances 1968 Death - John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies 1967 Death - William C Bullitt, 1st U.S. ambassador in U.S.S.R., dies at 76 1965 Death - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies 1965 Event - Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg) 1964 Event - General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam 1962 Event - Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" 1959 Death - Lord Irwin, ambassador to U.S. (1940-46), dies at 78 1957 Event - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel 1956 Death - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82 1955 Death - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies 1954 Death - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian United Nations ambassador, dies at 70 1952 Event - Czechoslovakian government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata 1949 Event - Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador 1949 Event - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US 1949 Event - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) 1948 Event - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir 1944 Death - Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide 1944 Death - Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies 1943 Event - 1st U.S. ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated 1943 Event - Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow 1943 Event - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker 1939 Birthday - Piet R Stoffelen, Dutch ambassador/MP, PvdA 1939 Event - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech 1939 Event - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey 1936 Death - Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid 1935 Death - Jules M Cambron, French Governor-General to Algeria/ambassador, dies 1935 Birthday - Juliet Campbell, British ambassador, to Luxembourg 1934 Birthday - Robin McLaren, British ambassador, China 1934 Event - Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament 1933 Event - 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1933 Death - Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies 1933 Event - Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold 1932 Birthday - Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to U.S.S.R. 1932 Birthday - Andrew Young, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, 1977 - 1979, Mayor-D-Atlanta 1930 Birthday - John Robson, British ambassador, Norway 1930 Birthday - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador, to U.S. 1929 Birthday - John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico 1929 Birthday - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador, in Netherlands 1928 Birthday - Evan G. Galbraith, born in Ohio, United States Ambassador to France under President Ronald Regan, investment banker 1928 Birthday - Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, ambassador, UN 1927 Birthday - Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador, to UK 1927 Birthday - William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland, 1977-81 1927 Death - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered 1927 Birthday - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001 1926 Birthday - Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to UN 1926 Birthday - Jeane J Kirkpatrick, Duncan Oklahoma, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, R 1926 Birthday - John Graham, British ambassador to NATO 1926 Birthday - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador, Uruguay 1924 Event - Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador 1921 Birthday - Oliver Wright, British Ambassador, To U.S. 1921 Event - Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City 1919 Birthday - Anne Cox Chambers, Dayton Ohio, U.S. ambassador to Belgium, 1977-81 1918 Death - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies 1915 Birthday - Angier Biddle Duke, New York City, U.S. Ambassador, Spain 1915 Birthday - John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host 1911 Birthday - James Marjoribanks, British ambassador 1910 Death - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies 1908 Birthday - Arthur J. Goldberg, born in Illinois, United Nations ambassador and Supreme Court justice, 1962 - 1965 1908 Birthday - Walter Annenberg, born in Milwaukee, publisher, Triangle-TV Guide and Ambassador to Great Britain 1906 Birthday - Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador, Leurres et Lueurs 1906 Birthday - Greta Nissen, actress, Ambassador Bill 1905 Birthday - Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S. 1904 Birthday - George F. Kennan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ambassador, to Moscow 1903 Birthday - Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. ambassador, to Vatican 1902 Birthday - Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator-R, ambassador, Vice President candidate 1960 1901 Birthday - Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador 1901 Birthday - Chester Bowles, born in Massachusetts, ambassador and writer, Conscience of a Liberal 1896 Birthday - Willem F M Lampe, Dutch ambassador of the Dutch Antilles 1896 Event - Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador 1893 Event - Thomas F. Bayard becomes 1st U.S. ambassador in Great Britain 1893 Event - Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador 1891 Birthday - W Averell Harriman, U.S., Gov-D-NY, ambassador to U.S.S.R., 1943-46 1891 Birthday - William C Bullitt, 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R. 1887 Event - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1886 Birthday - Raymond A. Spruance, U.S. admiral/fleet commander/ambassador 1881 Birthday - Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to U.S., 1940-46 1873 Birthday - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo, 1921-39 1860 Birthday - Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican 1860 Event - 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington 1852 Birthday - Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg 1845 Birthday - Jules M Cambon, French Governor-General of Algeria/ambassador 1844 Birthday - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, Dream 1831 Birthday - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia 1793 Death - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 1783 Death - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 1777 Event - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag 1755 Event - French ambassador recalled from London 1713 Birthday - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland 1703 Death - Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies 1671 Death - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies 1654 Death - Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 1611 Birthday - Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome 1578 Birthday - Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople, 1611-39 1518 Event - Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther |
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