2014 Event The U.S. may cooperate with Iran in identifying options to address the violence in Iraq, though such options would not include military aid; President Barack Obama has sent 257 troops to Baghdad to provide additional security for the U.S. embassy 2014 Event Over 300 books related to Anne Frank are donated to Tokyo libraries by the embassy of Israel after a mass vandalism incident earlier this month that destroyed hundreds of the library system's existing copies; police are still investigating 2014 Event A deteriorating security situation prompts the evacuation of Americans from its embassy in South Sudan 2013 Event Britain, France and Germany close embassies in Yemen; Canada closes its embassy in Bangladesh; the U.S. closes 22 embassies in the Middle East and North America due to intelligence of an impending Al-Qaeda attack 2013 Event The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London 2012 Event U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed 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 After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy 2011 Event Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack 2011 Event Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy 2011 Event In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee 2011 Event For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea 2010 Event Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle 1999 Event During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China 1995 Event Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 1992 Event 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad 1991 Event U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens 1989 Event Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy 1984 Event Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 1984 Event Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead 1984 Death Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1983 Event A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait 1983 Event Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon 1982 Event Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1980 Event Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv 1980 Event Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Event Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London 1980 Event Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy 1980 Event Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota 1980 Event Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 1980 Event Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran 1979 Event Crowds attack U.S. embassy at Tripoli Libya 1979 Event Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack U.S. embassy, 1 dies 1979 Event Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage 1979 Event 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1979 Event 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran) 1978 Event Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran 1978 Event Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 1978 Event Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead 1978 Event Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris 1975 Event Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders 1975 Event West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm, Sweden 1973 Event "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum 1972 Birthday Mindy Carson, born in New York City, vocalist, Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue 1971 Event Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in U.S. Embassy in 1968 Event Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon 1967 Event Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered 1964 Event U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy 1960 Event Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta 1931 Birthday Florian Zabach, born in Chicago, Illinois, violinist, Hot Canary, Club Embassy 1928 Event Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1924 Birthday Connie Russell, New York City, singer, Club Embassy, Garroway at Large 1902 Birthday Edward Durell Stone, U.S., architect, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi 1868 Event Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China 1860 Event Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh 1835 Event 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms 1557 Event 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement
