2014 Event Lawyer Ron Klain has been appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama as Ebola Response Coordinator to organize government response to Ebola cases; though not medically trained, Klain has been selected for his managerial and problem-solving experience 2014 Event Donald Sterling, L.A. Clippers owner, is banned for life after reports of his racist comments; a new CEO will be appointed, and other team owners are encouraged to pressure Sterling into selling; many parties have already expressed interest 2013 Event Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2012 Event Salvatore J. Cordileone is appointed the ninth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI 2012 Event Top executive Marissa Mayer, leaves Google after being appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s new CEO 2012 Event France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 2012 Event Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili 2012 Event Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship 2011 Event Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister 2010 Event Christina Figueres of Costa Rica is appointed by U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon to lead efforts to combat global warming and climate change 2010 Event The Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens sensitive marshes and wildlife along the Gulf Coast; Admiral Thad Allan is appointed to lead the Federal response to the spill 2009 Event At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed 2009 Event Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military 1997 Event Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier 1995 Event Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi 1994 Event Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan 1994 Event Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1994 Event David Platt appointed captain of English football team 1993 Event General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president 1993 Event Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral 1993 Event Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey 1992 Event Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies 1990 Event Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner 1990 Event J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL 1988 Event Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop 1988 Event Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court 1987 Event New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate 1986 Event Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court 1986 Event Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen 1985 Event Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R. 1982 Event Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia 1980 Event Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran 1979 Event Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament 1979 Event Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge 1978 Event Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran 1978 Event Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect 1978 Event Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat 1978 Event Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI 1977 Event Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus 1977 Event Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh 1974 Event Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam 1973 Event H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 1973 Event Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain 1973 Event Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 1972 Event Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches 1972 Event Pierre Messmer appointed French premier 1971 Event Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court 1971 Event Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League 1971 Event Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan 1971 Event Joseph Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1971 Event General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1970 Event Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court 1969 Event Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya 1969 Event The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO 1969 Event Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa 1966 Event Georges Pompidou appointed French premier 1965 Event 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford, Jr., 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits 1965 Event H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname 1964 Event Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam 1964 Event General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam 1963 Event Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia 1962 Event Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court 1962 Event Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal 1962 Death Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77 1961 Event L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels 1961 Event Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court 1961 Event James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court 1961 Event Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo 1958 Event Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court 1958 Event Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa 1958 Event Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia 1957 Event Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia 1957 Event Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1956 Event Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1956 Event William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court 1956 Event Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland 1956 Event D Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia 1955 Event J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname 1955 Event Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge 1955 Event HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 1954 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad 1954 Event Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. 1954 Event Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia 1954 Event J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member 1954 Event Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1953 Event Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1953 Event Joseph Laniel appointed French premier 1953 Event J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea 1953 Event Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State 1953 Event John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 1952 Event George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL 1952 Event Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary 1951 Event General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 Event Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht 1950 Event Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1947 Event John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy 1947 Event Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India 1946 Event Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1945 Event Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government 1944 Event Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 Event 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 1943 Event General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day 1943 Event Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia 1943 Event Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet 1942 Event Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general 1942 Event "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein 1942 Event General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 Event William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army 1941 Event President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1941 Event Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff 1940 Event Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 1940 Event NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee 1940 Event Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1939 Event General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Event Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1939 Event Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1935 Event Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia 1934 Birthday Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush 1933 Event 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1931 Event Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator 1926 Event Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander 1926 Event ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1925 Event 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas 1924 Event J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI 1922 Event Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent 1922 Event 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) 1922 Event Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1920 Event Ed Barrow appointed General Manager of New York Yankees 1920 Event Dirk Fock appointed as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies 1920 Event General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1920 Event 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1916 Event 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson 1914 Event John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 Event Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 Event Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed 1912 Event Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City 1911 Event General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti 1911 Event Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War 1910 Event World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) 1910 Event William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia 1910 Event William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. 1906 Event Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce 1905 Event Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor 1903 Birthday Andre Fleury, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, composer, organist, studied organ at the Paris Conservatory under Eugene Gigout, appointed professor of organ at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris 1903 Event President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1899 Event Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1897 Event Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia 1892 Event William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia 1887 Event Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1885 Birthday Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator, appointed 1884 Event Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent 1881 Event Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C. 1878 Event DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) 1878 Event Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield 1870 Event Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge 1866 Event David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy 1865 Event Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1863 Event George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brigadier-General 1863 Event General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1855 Event Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin 1846 Event W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) 1843 Event Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country 1841 Event Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei, James Brooke appointed Rajah 1832 Event Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies 1827 Event Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1802 Event John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress 1801 Event John Marshall appointed U.S. chief justice 1789 Event Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; 1789 Event President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 1789 Event Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 1787 Event Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor 1786 Event Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India 1784 Event John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions 1777 Event Major James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers 1775 Event George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1755 Event Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State 1747 Event Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel 1747 Event Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht 1747 Event Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand 1746 Event Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor 1746 Event Henry Pelham appointed English premier 1727 Event Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor 1722 Event Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1722 Event Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente 1722 Event Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) 1720 Event Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England 1699 Event Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague 1683 Event Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 1682 Event Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London 1675 Event John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1675 Event Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1673 Event Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet 1654 Event Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel 1653 Event Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France 1641 Event Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands 1636 Event Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil 1632 Event Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen 1632 Event Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe 1632 Event Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander 1629 Event Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies 1625 Event Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe 1625 Event Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen 1625 Event Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland 1625 Event Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1624 Event Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII 1621 Event Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1613 Event Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies 1612 Event Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I 1611 Event George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury 1610 Event Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony 1610 Event Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia 1594 Event Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague) 1584 Event Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland 1563 Event William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1561 Event William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais 1558 Event Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1553 Event Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor 1551 Event English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland 1536 Event English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1529 Event Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor 1529 Event Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru 1515 Event Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor 1514 Event Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York 1483 Event Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain 1203 Event Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium 979 Event Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom 976 Event Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba 866 Event John appointed bishop of the kingdom 644 Event Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
