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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

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