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2013 Event - A meeting of the U.N. General Assembly organized by former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, is boycotted by the United States, Jordan and Canada

2013 Event - David Milliband announces plans to resign as Britain's Foreign Secretary and move to U.S. state of New York to head the International Rescue Committee

2013 Event - According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities

2012 Event - Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are listed first on 'Foreign Policy' magazine's 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers

2012 Event - Vice foreign minister to Japan, Chikao Kawai, is sent to China to help improve the status of relations between the two countries

2012 Event - The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks

2012 Event - Jose Garc’a-Margallo y Marfil, Spain's foreign minister, attacks Argentina's decision to nationalize the Argentine oil company YPF

2012 Event - The U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, begins a two day tour of Myanmar

2011 Event - In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off

2011 Event - The Foreign Ministry of Iran calls for Musa al-Sadr to be released; they claim he has been held in Libya since 1978

2011 Event - Walid al-Muallem, foreign minister of Syria, denounces the European Union for the travel bans and asset freezes it has imposed on Syria

2011 Event - The news of Osama bin Laden's death is received positively by international leaders, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari

2011 Event - Nabil al-Araby, Foreign Minister of Egypt, calls for the U.S. to support and independent Palestine

2010 Event - The U.S. pledges $10 million in foreign aid money to help victims of the Pakistan floods

2010 Event - U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014

2010 Event - Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza

2010 Event - The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced foreign direct investment into China has risen for the sixth consecutive month, up $8.3 billion year-on-year

2003 Death - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping

1998 Death - Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies

1998 Death - Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies

1995 Death - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74

1994 Death - Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102

1994 Death - George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84

1994 Death - Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56

1993 Event - Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president

1993 Death - Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80

1993 Event - Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord

1992 Death - Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister to Spain (1985-92), dies

1992 Death - Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84

1991 Event - U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti

1991 Death - Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies

1991 Death - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister, dies

1991 Death - Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies

1991 Event - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa

1991 Death - Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85

1991 Event - Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured

1990 Event - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns

1990 Event - U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister

1989 Event - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons

1988 Event - Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow

1987 Event - U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo

1986 Death - Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81

1986 Death - Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58

1985 Event - U.S. Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin

1983 Death - Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88

1983 Event - House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.

1982 Death - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran

1982 Event - George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs

1982 Death - Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70

1982 Event - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested

1982 Event - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war

1980 Death - Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61

1979 Death - Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68

1979 Event - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

1977 Event - U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed

1977 Event - President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1973 Event - Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs

1971 Death - Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78

1968 Event - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

1966 Death - Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71

1965 Event - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies

1963 Event - Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko

1962 Event - Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow

1962 Event - French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria

1961 Event - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea

1960 Death - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67

1958 Death - Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed

1958 Event - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

1958 Event - Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania)

1957 Birthday - Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs

1957 Event - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister

1957 Death - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65

1956 Death - Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83

1956 Death - Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German Foreign Minister (1932-38), dies

1956 Event - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal

1956 Event - Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister

1956 Death - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84

1955 Event - 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba

1955 Death - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87

1954 Death - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed

1953 Event - GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"

1952 Event - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister

1950 Event - French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS

1950 Event - Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1949 Death - Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies

1949 Death - Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged

1949 Event - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India)

1949 Event - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister

1948 Death - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71

1948 Death - Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered

1944 Death - Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies

1944 Birthday - Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect, CDA

1944 Event - 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City

1943 Event - Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime

1943 Death - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20

1943 Death - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71

1943 Event - 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1942 Event - 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)

1942 Event - 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French

1942 Birthday - Michiel Patijn, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State of Foreign affairs, 1994-

1942 Death - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67

1940 Event - Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship

1938 Event - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister

1938 Event - U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany

1937 Death - Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1937 Birthday - Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs

1937 Death - J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73

1937 Death - Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91

1936 Birthday - Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister, -1992

1936 Birthday - Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea

1934 Death - J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered

1934 Birthday - Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94

1933 Death - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies

1932 Birthday - Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs

1930 Event - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country, Detroit - Windsor, opens

1930 Birthday - Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary

1930 Birthday - Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs

1929 Event - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister

1929 Death - Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68

1928 Birthday - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of U.S.S.R., -91

1927 Death - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66

1927 Birthday - John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office

1927 Birthday - Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States

1927 Birthday - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP

1925 Death - Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies

1925 Death - George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66

1924 Birthday - Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA

1924 Event - 1st foreign language course broadcast on U.S. radio (WJZ, New York City)

1923 Event - U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition

1922 Event - Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service

1922 Death - Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54

1922 Birthday - Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs

1921 Birthday - Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister, KVP

1920 Birthday - Don Cook, foreign Correspondent

1920 Event - Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs

1919 Birthday - Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president

1918 Event - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)

1918 Death - Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies

1916 Event - Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov

1914 Death - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73

1913 Birthday - Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian jurist/foreign minister

1912 Death - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60

1912 Event - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City

1912 Death - Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57

1911 Birthday - Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78

1911 Birthday - Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general, NATO

1911 Birthday - Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister

1911 Birthday - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress, Assignment Foreign Legion

1909 Birthday - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68

1908 Birthday - Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister, Linggadjati

1906 Event - Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama)

1906 Event - English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured

1905 Event - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request

1905 Birthday - Jan H van Roijen, diplomat and Netherland foreign minister

1904 Death - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies

1904 Death - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies

1904 Birthday - Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister

1902 Birthday - Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs

1902 Death - Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies

1900 Birthday - Edward R. Stettinius, U.S., foreign minister, 1944 - 1945, diplomat

1899 Event - U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"

1897 Birthday - Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO

1894 Birthday - Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs, 1939-46, diplomat

1894 Death - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77

1894 Birthday - Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent

1893 Birthday - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fuhrer/foreign minister

1893 Birthday - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52

1893 Death - James G Blaine, U.S. minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62

1892 Birthday - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39

1891 Birthday - Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs

1891 Birthday - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47

1890 Death - Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74

1890 Death - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69

1890 Birthday - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN

1889 Birthday - Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs

1885 Birthday - Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940

1883 Birthday - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/Foreign Minister/UN-ambassador

1881 Event - 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany

1881 Birthday - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs

1877 Birthday - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-..

1874 Birthday - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-27

1872 Birthday - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min, 1916-18

1872 Birthday - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister

1872 Birthday - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister

1872 Birthday - Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister

1868 Death - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies

1867 Birthday - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant

1867 Event - Tokyo opens for foreign trade

1866 Birthday - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, 1913-18

1865 Death - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80

1864 Event - 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country

1863 Birthday - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925

1862 Birthday - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs

1861 Death - George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76

1861 Birthday - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16

1860 Birthday - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister, 1908-13

1860 Birthday - Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20

1857 Event - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S.

1854 Birthday - Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs

1852 Death - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70

1852 Birthday - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister

1852 Birthday - Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister, 1918

1846 Birthday - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier

1845 Death - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 69

1845 Event - Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery

1843 Birthday - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs

1841 Birthday - Bert van Tienhoven, mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister

1841 Birthday - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister

1837 Death - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66

1836 Birthday - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27

1835 Event - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms

1834 Death - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71

1830 Birthday - James G Blaine, U.S., minister of foreign affairs

1827 Death - George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57

1825 Event - Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out

1821 Birthday - Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat

1816 Birthday - Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs

1816 Birthday - Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Minister Foreign Affairs, 1852-53

1812 Event - U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)

1810 Birthday - Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son

1809 Death - Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies

1807 Event - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs

1802 Birthday - [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgian Minister of Foreign affairs, 1831

1797 Birthday - Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs

1794 Event - Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces

1794 Event - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers

1789 Event - Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State

1789 Event - Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department

1784 Birthday - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs

1784 Death - Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies

1780 Birthday - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs

1778 Event - "Stars and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)

1776 Birthday - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs

1770 Birthday - Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs

1764 Birthday - Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster

1763 Event - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs

1762 Birthday - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs

1754 Death - Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies

1750 Birthday - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister

1724 Event - Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs

1675 Event - Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut

1647 Birthday - Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs

1616 Event - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War

1570 Event - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students

1550 Event - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs

1487 Event - Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer













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