2015 Event The Japanese Diet enacts a defense policy allowing the nation's troops to aid allies in conflicts that also threaten Japan; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the law, but it is opposed by many who wish to maintain the country's pacifist constitution 2015 Event Australia's Liberal Party votes in Malcolm Turnbull to replace Tony Abbott as prime minister; Abbott had received majority backing from his party in a no-confidence vote just seven months ago 2015 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encounters resistance to proposed labor reforms as 150 million workers go on strike for a day in protest; Modi is seeking to make the Indian business environment more attractive to investment by foreign companies 2015 Event Japanese protesters gather outside the nation's parliament building to oppose changes proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to allow Japanese combat defense aid to allied nations for cases in which Japan itself is not under attack 2015 Event Greek judge Vassiliki Thanou is sworn in as the nation's interim prime minister after last week's resignation of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras; new elections for the position will be held in September 2015 Event Certain members of Greece's Syriza party form the Popular Unity Party, which opposes the current E.U. bailout; Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who ran on a Syriza anti-bailout platform, resigned after accepting the bailout terms against voter wishes 2015 Event The Greek parliament approves a euro bailout package that contains conditions rejected by voters during an earlier referendum; failed confidence in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by his Syriza party may now oblige him to call new elections 2015 Event Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi gains parliamentary approval for his proposed reforms to fight corruption and reduce government spending; the measures include eliminating certain government positions and reexamining closed corruption cases 2015 Event Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asserts Japan's continued pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons as the city of Nagasaki commemorates the 70th anniversary of its destruction by atomic bombing 2015 Event Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis steps down despite the outcome of a national referendum favoring his position against the bailout terms proposed by the E.U. and other creditors; economist Euclid Tsakalotos will take his place 2015 Event Greece misses its $1.8 billion debt payment to the IMF after a bailout extension request was denied; Greek leaders had rejected making reforms in exchange for the funds, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now willing to negotiate 2015 Event Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, is sentenced to eight months in prison after new evidence emerges proving corruption charges for which he had been acquitted three years ago 2015 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron is re-elected for five more years in a decisive victory that upset predictions of a close election and resulted in the first Conservative majority government since 1992 2015 Event Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi meets with U.S. President Barack Obama, focusing on the fight against ISIS militants; Obama agrees to send humanitarian aid but makes no commitment regarding military supplies or assistance 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to speak out against the pending deal with Iran in which sanctions will be lifted in exchange for cuts in Iranian nuclear capacity; Netanyahu warns the pact may lead to nuclear arms acceleration 2015 Event Lee Kuan Yew, founder of the nation of Singapore and prime minister for 31 years, dies at the age of 91 after suffering for weeks from pneumonia 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling Likud party have retained victory in this week's election; Netanyahu will now focus on forming a coalition government 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new' 2015 Event Creditor nations agree to extend Greece's bailout program by four months as long as required economic reforms continue; new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had campaigned on reversing the reforms but now accepts the terms to avoid financial chaos 2015 Event New anti-austerity Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras halts the public asset privatizations required under Greece's bailout agreement with its foreign creditors; Standard & Poor's has lowered its rating on Greek national debt from stable to negative 2015 Event Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party, is elected as Prime Minister of Greece on an anti-austerity platform 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi make progress in the areas of defense and nuclear trade; the countries plan to cooperate on defense issues, military manufacturing initiatives and nuclear power development 2014 Event In the recent Japan elections, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gains victory, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party wins the majority of lower house elections 2014 Event Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk replaces Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Council 2014 Event Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will step down when he has reached constitutional term limits; Putin has served as either president or prime minister continually since the year 2000 and may run for a final presidential term in 2018 2014 Event After two years of hostility between Japan and China over control of certain islands in the East China Sea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Linping shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit 2014 Event 27 hostages have been freed in Cameroon, including the wife of vice prime minister Amadou Ali and a group of Chinese workers; Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible 2014 Event Pakistani protesters seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif briefly take over the state television station and shut it down; soldiers and paramilitary forces later regained control and restored operation 2014 Event French judicial officials are investigating IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde for her alleged role in fraudulent payments during her time as France's finance minister; LaGarde believe that the charges are unfounded 2014 Event Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has agreed to stop challenging Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister; President Fuad Masum selected al-Abadi for the position earlier this week 2014 Event Arseny Yatseniuk, prime minister of Ukraine, submits his resignation in frustration over inaction of the parliament to address energy needs and military funding 2014 Event Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a role as economic advisor to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in order to help Egypt reform its economy and develop new business opportunities 2014 Event Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is nominated for the position of President of the European Commission in a 26-2 vote over U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who strongly objected to the decision 2014 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin targeting assets stored overseas in an effort to avoid taxes; the Indian government estimates that up to $2 trillion may be in hiding; the nation follows China and Russia in magnitude of offshored wealth 2014 Event Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, advises other nations to be cautious in recognizing the new Palestinian government, formed by agreement between Islamist rival groups Fatah and Hamas; Hamas plans to maintain its anti-Zionist stance 2014 Event India has officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade; K. Chandrasekhara Rao will serve as Telangana prime minister 2014 Event Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union 2014 Event New Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces plans to cut government spending and use the funds to decrease taxes on individuals and regional businesses; Italy's unemployment rate increased 0.2 percent in January to 12.9 percent 2014 Event 39-year-old Former Florentine mayor Matteo Renzi has been inaugurated as Prime Minister of Italy 2014 Event Lebanon's new Prime Minister Tammam Salam declares that he has been able to form a new cabinet, breaking the 10-month impasse between Hezbollah and Sunni rival parties; Salam intends to hold presidential elections on time 2014 Event Italy's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party 2014 Event Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign 2014 Event After eight years in a coma following a stroke in 2006, Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, dies at the age of 85 2014 Event In a coma since 2006, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reportedly in critical condition following renal failure 2013 Event Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan visits the Yasukuni Shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the shrine commemorates those who died while in the service of the Empire of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, which stored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 2013 Event Ukraine's former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko posted messages supporting the anti-government protesters who toppled the last status of Vladimir Lenin on her website, calling on suporters to keep up their demands 2013 Event A meeting between Pope Francis and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is held at the Vatican; discussions include Iran's nuclear program among other global affairs 2013 Event Ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expelled from parliament due to his tax fraud conviction 2013 Event Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Bucharest, Romania. The Premier will attend the China-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) leaders' meeting as a guest of the Prime Minister 2013 Event Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2013 Event A report in Le Monde prompts the Foreign Minister of France, Laurent Fabius, to summons the U.S. ambassador over allegations that the U.S. spied on millions of French phone conversations 2013 Event Australia's outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces he isn't seeking re-election as the leader of the Labor Party 2013 Event Syria's former defense minister, Ali Habib Mahmud is reported to have defected to Turkey 2013 Event As the U.S. prepares an alleged imminent attack on Syria, Walid Muallem, Foreign Minister of Syria, denies that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons 2013 Event Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces a plan to help settle Papua New Guinea asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat 2013 Event Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will welcome it's first McDonald's early next year; the site will be run by the son of Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Henry Nguyen 2013 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, hoping the two sides could re-enter peace talks which have been on a three-year hiatus 2013 Event Economist Hazem Al Beblaw is selected as Egypt's interim Prime Minister 2013 Event Egypt names Mohamed ElBaradei Prime Minister 2013 Event The new leader of the Australian Labor Party is former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who won over incumbent Julia Gillard 2013 Event Following a corruption scandal, the Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, resigns 2013 Event Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, declares a state of emergency as the swollen Vltava River threaten the center of Prague 2013 Event Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister elect of Iceland, announces he will indefinitely extend January's freeze on European Union membership talks 2013 Event In Rome, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy, dies at age 94 2013 Event Saudi Arabia appoints Fahd bin Abdullah as its new deputy defense minister 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 Britain's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, dies of a stroke at age 87 in London 2013 Event Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s 2013 Event In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister 2013 Event The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified 2013 Event Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf 2013 Event Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan responds to air strikes on Syria, saying Israel's government is waging 'state terrorism' 2013 Event In a speech directed at Japan's Self-Defense Forces, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands 2013 Event Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, lays out his intention to renegotiate terms with the EU, and subsequent plan to offer a referendum on his country's withdrawal from the EU if a new deal is agreed 2013 Event The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, loses his position as President of the Euro Group; he is unseated by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance for the Netherlands 2012 Event Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leaves the hospital after undergoing minor surgery to remove a tumor 2012 Event In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy 2012 Event Following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Monti, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament 2012 Event Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December 2012 Event Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner 2012 Event Following controversial elections, Ukraine's Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov and his government, resign en masse 2012 Event Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister 2012 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron announces Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland as the location for the 39th G8 summit in June 2013 2012 Event Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Event In Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced plans to pay for a new education fund with a new 'sin' tax on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling 2012 Event The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post 2012 Event Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy 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 Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the MEP for Belgium voice concerns that the Flemish N-VA party and the far right are 'the same'; N-VA responds by saying their criticism is 'gratuitous' 2012 Event After not being seen for weeks, Ethiopia's long-term Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi dies of a mystery illness 2012 Event Ivica Dacic is officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia 2012 Event Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, suggests government spending cuts will be required until the end of the decade 2012 Event Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili 2012 Event Greece appoints Yiannis Stournaras as its new finance minister 2012 Event Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution 2012 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa 2012 Event Romania's USL, or Social-Liberal Union Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania 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 Indian actor Shahrukh Khan is detained by the U.S. at a New York airport for 90 minutes, angering S. M. Krishna, India's External Affairs Minister 2012 Event Greece Prime Minister Lucas Papademos resigns, calling for a new election within a month 2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2012 Event After a power struggle within his government, Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns 2012 Event In Seville, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy is reelected head of the Popular Party 2012 Event Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign due to major social and political unrest in the country 2012 Event On Australia Day nearly 200 indigenous protesters surround a restaurant in Canberra, trapping Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, opposition leader inside 2012 Event Jamaica's new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announces the country will become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state 2012 Event Queen Elizabeth II appoints John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, and artist David Hockney, to the Order of Merit 2011 Event Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's proposed austerity measures are debated by the Italian senate 2011 Event After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord 2011 Event In Belgium, Parti Socialiste leader Elio di Rupo is set to become Prime Minister, pending approval by the parties' conventions and definition of the cabinet makeup 2011 Event In Bangkok, Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is hospitalized with suspected food poisoning 2011 Event Protesters storm the national Parliament in Kuwait; Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and his cabinet, resign 2011 Event Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister 2011 Event Parliament gives the new Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos a vote of confidence, opening the doors for national unity to help restore financial stability in Greece 2011 Event Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister 2011 Event In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis 2011 Event Greece swears in its new Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos 2011 Event Two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban are indicted in Pakistan for murdering Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto 2011 Event The Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou receives a no-confidence motion against him after failing to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout 2011 Event Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, reveals it is impossible to protect Bangkok from flooding; calls the floods a 'national crisis' 2011 Event Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister 2011 Event Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election 2011 Event The National Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature, approves Yoshihiko Noda as its new Prime Minister 2011 Event Nepal's Parliament elects Unified Communist Party leader Baburam Bhattarai as Prime Minister 2011 Event The trial of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarek and sons, Alaa and Gamall is adjourned and merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly 2011 Event Riots in England continue; Prime Minister David Cameron hires U.S. law enforcement officer Bill Bratton to advise on dealing with gang-related violence 2011 Event Thailand's parliament officially elects Yingluck Shinawatra as Prime Minister of Thailand; Yingluck is Thailand's first female Prime Minister 2011 Event Vietnam re-elects Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal 2011 Event Following the resignation of Dominique Strass-Kahn, France finance minister Christine Lagarde becomes the new head of the International Monetary Fund 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, confirms the United Kingdom is sending Apache attack helicopters to assist the 2011 Libyan uprising 2011 Event French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, declares her candidacy as head of the International Monetary Fund 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 In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested 2011 Event An investigation is launched by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gillani to determine how bin Laden lived undetected in Abbottabad 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 2011 Event Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visits areas devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011 Event Exiles in Tibet vote for a new Prime Minister, and also for 43 members of the Tibetan parliament 2011 Event Speaking in Cardiff, Wales, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the U.K., declares war on 'enemies of enterprise' 2011 Event Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas 2011 Event Lawmakers in Nepal vote to elect a new Prime Minister 2011 Event Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces he will leave politics soon after the Presidential elections are held 2010 Event Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad publicly declares Palestinians have changed; they are now fully committed to non-violence 2010 Event Rallies protesting constitutional abuses by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, Russia 2010 Event Hezbollah members are indicted for killing Lebanon�s former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing 2010 Event David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, embarks on an official visit aimed at building closer economic ties to the People's Republic of China 2010 Event In Italy, a package at the Bologna Airport, addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames during an inspection by police 2010 Event Ukranian prosecutors claim that in 2000, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze 2010 Event Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat 2010 Event Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation 2010 Event Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejects demands by Thai protesters to dissolve Parliament in 30 days 2010 Event In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there 2010 Event Gordon Brown, United Kingdom's Prime Minister, gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry 2010 Event Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi minister, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the poison gas attack at Halabja 2009 Event Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi is knocked to the ground and hit in the face after a political rally in Milan, Italy 2009 Event Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi 2009 Event At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed 2009 Event Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2009 Event Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine 2008 Event Taro Aso becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan 2008 Event Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia 2006 Event Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan 2006 Event Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea 2006 Event Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years 2006 Event Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke 2004 Event Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted 2003 Death Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2003 Death Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping 2003 Death Fred Rogers, writer, actor, minister, and musician, 'Mr. Rogers', dies at 74 2002 Death "Darwood ""Ken"" Kaye Smith", actor/minister, Our Gang, dies at 72 2000 Death Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80 1998 Death Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies 1998 Death Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies 1998 Death Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies 1998 Death Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies 1998 Death Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies 1998 Death Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies 1997 Death Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies 1997 Death George Chambers, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1981 - 1986, dies 1997 Death Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies 1997 Death Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway 1989 - 1990, dies 1997 Death Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies 1997 Death Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada 1974 - 1979, dies 1997 Death Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1945 - 1946, 1975, 1976, dies 1997 Death Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92 1997 Death Muhammad Fadhel, Prime Minister of Iraq 1953 - 1954, dies 1997 Death Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1959 - 1960, dies 1997 Event Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. 1997 Event 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life 1997 Death Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana 1953, 1957 - 1964, dies 1997 Death Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister, PNP, 1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992, dies 1997 Death Milton Cato, Prime Minister of San Vincent and Grenadines 1979 - 1984, dies 1997 Death Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies 1996 Death Stanko Todorov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1971 - 1981, dies 1996 Death Babrak Karmal, Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1980 - 1981, dies 1996 Death Junius Richard Jayawardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1977 - 1978, dies at 90 1996 Death Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morroco 1979 - 1983, dies 1996 Death Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1996 Death Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63 1996 Death Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria 1979 - 1984, dies 1996 Death Michel Debre, Prime Minister of France in 1959 - 1962, dies 1996 Death Andreas George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece 1981 - 1989, 1993 - 1996, dies at 76 1996 Death Janaki Ramachandran, Prime Minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies 1996 Death Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies 1996 Death Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies 1996 Death Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungry 1965 - 1967, dies at 85 1996 Death Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies 1996 Death N T Rama Rao, Prime Minister of Andhra Pradesh India 1983 - 1984, 1984 - 1989, 1994 - 1995, dies 1996 Death Kurt Schmucker, German RFA minister of Economy (1963-66), dies 1995 Death Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 1995 Event Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress 1995 Death Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1995 Death Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1974 - 1975, dies at 68 1995 Death Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87 1995 Death Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60 1995 Death Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of Britain 1963 - 1964, dies 1995 Death Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1975 - 1976, dies at 84 1995 Death Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32 1995 Death Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1995 Death Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1977-79), dies 1995 Death Vieno J Sukselainen, Prime Minister of Finland 1959 - 1961, dies 1995 Death Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered 1995 Death Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies 1995 Death U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma 1948 - 1956, 1957 - 1958, 1960 - 1962, dies 1994 Death Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies 1994 Death Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies 1994 Death Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Death Yao Yilin, Vice Prime Minister of China 1979, dies 1994 Death Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered 1994 Death George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1994 Death Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies 1994 Death George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 1994 Death Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Event Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat 1994 Death Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74 1994 Death Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies 1994 Death Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies 1994 Death Federica Montseny, anarchist and Spanish minister of Health (1936), dies at 80 1994 Death Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56 1994 Death Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 1993 Death Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies 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 Death Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50 1993 Event Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 1993 Death Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1993 Death Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67 1993 Death Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59 1993 Death Hedi Amira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia 1970 - 1980, dies 1993 Death Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered 1993 Death Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 1993 Death Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch Prime Minister, social democrat, 1965 - 1969, dies 1993 Death Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France 1957, dies 1993 Death Rene Pleven, Prime Minister of France 1950 - 1951, 1951 - 1952, dies 1993 Death Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered 1992 Death Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense (1971-73), dies at 78 1992 Death Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister of Laos 1975 - 1991, dies 1992 Death Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal 1974, dies 1992 Death Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity 1992 Death Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice, dies 1992 Death Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister to Spain (1985-92), dies 1992 Death Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch Minister of traffic and water, dies at 77 1992 Event John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 Event P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica 1992 Death Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 1992 Death Menachem Begin, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, Nobel 1979, dies at 85 1992 Death Ali Amini, Prime Minister of Iran 1961 - 1962, dies 1992 Event George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1991 Death Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies 1931 - 1938, dies 1991 Death Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies 1991 Death Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies 1991 Death Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide 1991 Death Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated 1991 Death Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies 1991 Death Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63 1991 Death Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister, dies 1991 Death Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium 1952 - 1954, dies 1991 Death Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies 1991 Death Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies 1991 Death Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia 1952 - 1974, dies 1991 Death Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1991 Death Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85 1990 Event Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns 1990 Death Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 - 1970, dies 1990 Death Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies 1990 Event Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Event Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe 1990 Event U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister 1990 Death Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 1990 Death Terence O'Neil, lord/Prime Minister of Ulster 1963 - 1969, dies 1990 Death Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies 1990 Death Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies 1990 Death FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies 1990 Death Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies 1990 Death Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese Prime Minister 1945, dies 1990 Death Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies 1990 Death Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 1989 Event Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons 1989 Event Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1989 Death Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies 1988 Event Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan 1988 Event Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1988 Event Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister 1988 Death Franz Josef Strauss, West German Minister of defense 1956 - 1962, dies at 73 1988 Death Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland 1948 - 1958, dies at 101 1988 Death Georgy M. Malenkov, Prime Minister of U.S.S.R. 1953 - 1955, dies at 86 1988 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century 1988 Death Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972, dies at 82 1987 Event Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term 1987 Death Errol W. Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados 1961 - 1976, dies at 67 1987 Event U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo 1986 Death [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1957 - 1963, dies at 92 1986 Death Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74 1986 Event Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns 1986 Event Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 1986 Death Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 1986 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 Event Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme 1986 Death Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 1986 Death Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58 1985 Event U.S. Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin 1984 Event Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi 1984 Event Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1984 Event Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1984 Death Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1984 Event Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner 1984 Death Martin Niemoller, German submarine captain and anti-nazi minister, dies at 92 1984 Event Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1983 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation 1983 Event Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law 1983 Death Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88 1983 Death Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies 1983 Event Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) 1983 Event British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Death Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered 1982 Event Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1982 Death Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 1982 Death Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran 1982 Event Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 1982 Event Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years 1982 Event George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs 1982 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington 1982 Death Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies 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 Death Richard A Butler, England, Minister of Finance, dies at 79 1981 Death Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1981 Death Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 1981 Death Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 1981 Death Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Event Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1981 Death Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79 1981 Death Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78 1980 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws 1980 Death Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 1980 Death Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash 1980 Event Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness 1980 Death Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 1980 Death Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61 1980 Event Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname 1979 Event Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns 1979 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain 1979 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1978 Event India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1978 Death Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister 1969 - 1974, dies in Jerusalem at 80 1978 Event Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1978 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Death Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died 1978 Death Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1978 Event Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Death Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered 1977 Event Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister 1977 Death Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 1977 Event Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India 1977 Event Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1977 Death Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide 1976 Event Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns 1976 Death Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies 1976 Death Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies 1976 Event Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water 1976 Event Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England 1976 Death Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 1975 Event Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) 1975 Event Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1975 Death Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71 1974 Death John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72 1974 Death Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77 1974 Event Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 1973 Death Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923 - 1965, dies at 89 1973 Death Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1973 Event Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman 1972 Death Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 1972 Death Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies 1972 Event Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage 1972 Event Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar 1971 Death Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57 1971 Death Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78 1971 Death Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63 1970 Event Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1970 Death Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 1970 Death Hjalmar Schcacht, Horace Greeley, Nazi minister, dies 1970 Death H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies 1970 Death Peter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73 1969 Death Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 1969 Event Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister 1968 Death Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 1968 Death Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 1968 Death Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies 1968 Event British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1968 Death Theophilus E Donges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69 1968 Death Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Death Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 1966 Death Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89 1966 Death Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1966 Event Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin 1966 Death Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85 1966 Event Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain 1966 Event Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1965 Event Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by Prime Minister Ian D Smith 1965 Death Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83 1965 Death Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch Minister of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70 1965 Death Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90 1964 Death Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1964 Death W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Information, dies at 85 1963 Birthday Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler 1963 Death Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 1962 Event John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1962 Death Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil 1962, dies at 52 1962 Event Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow 1962 Event Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands 1961 Event John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 Death Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 1961 Death Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62 1961 Event Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...) 1961 Death Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1949 - 1957, dies at 67 1961 Death French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81 1961 Event Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea 1961 Event British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 1960 Death Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1960 Death Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 1960 Death Everhardus J van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51 1960 Death Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered Prime Minister Sturgkh, dies at 80 1959 Death Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1959 Death Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1958 Death Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Event Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa 1958 Death Pierre-etienne Flandin, French Prime Minister 1934 - 1935, dies at 69 1958 Death Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78 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) 1958 Event H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense 1957 Event U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov 1957 Event Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed 1957 Event Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Event President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1957 Event Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Minister of Defense 1957 Birthday Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Death Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79 1957 Death Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 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 1957 Event Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain 1956 Death Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 1956 Event Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary 1956 Event Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister 1956 Death Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84 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 Death Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 1956 Death Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice (Nobel 54), dies 1956 Event Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) 1956 Event Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister 1956 Death Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87 1956 Birthday Jan Peter Balkenende, born in Biezelinge, Netherlands, politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party 1956 Death Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1956 Birthday Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, 1994- 1955 Death John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87 1955 Death Leopold C M S Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 1955 Birthday Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei, 1988- 1955 Birthday Dimitra Papandreau, born in Greece, wife of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreau 1955 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1955 Death Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch Minister (1908-13), dies 1955 Death Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94 1955 Death Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 1954 Death Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed 1954 Birthday Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show 1954 Birthday Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009 1954 Event Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt 1954 Death Julius P Hoste, Belgian minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69 1953 Death Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed 1953 Event Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion retires 1953 Event French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1953 Death Maude K Adams, U.S. actress (Little Minister), dies 1953 Birthday John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War 1953 Event Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested 1953 Birthday Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Death Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79 1953 Birthday David Maclean, British minister of state 1953 Birthday Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- 1953 Birthday Guy Verhofstadt, born in Dendermonde, Belgium, politician, liberal, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium 1999 - 2008, member, European Parliament 1953 Event GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1952 Birthday Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment, PvdA 1952 Birthday Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, second President of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of Russia 1952 Event Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death 1952 Event Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister 1952 Birthday Hun Sen, born in Peam Koh Sna, Cambodia, politician, Cambodian People's Party, Prime minister of Cambodia, governed since the 1979 overthrow of the Khmer Rouge 1952 Death Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82 1952 Death [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 1952 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Event Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher 1951 Death John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57 1951 Event Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1951 Death Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1951 Birthday Bertie Ahern, Dublin Ireland, Prime Minister of Ireland, 1997 - 2008 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Birthday Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive 1951 Death Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 1951 Birthday Gordon Brown, born in Govan, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former television journalist 1950 Birthday Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Dutch minister of Justice, 198?-94 1950 Death Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60 1950 Event British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns 1950 Death Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/Governor-General, dies 1950 Death John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Birthday Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic, VVD 1950 Event French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1950 Event Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR 1950 Birthday Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment, VVD 1950 Death Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66 1949 Death Gustav Radbruch, German Minister of Justice, dies 1949 Death Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies 1949 Birthday Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister 1949 Birthday Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008 1949 Death Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged 1949 Event Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1949 Event Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 1948 Death Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1948 Death Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64 1948 Death Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged 1948 Event William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada 1948 Death Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71 1948 Death Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77 1948 Death Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered 1948 Birthday Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 1948 Death Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1948 Event Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns 1948 Birthday Elco Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC, CDA 1947 Birthday Tessa Jowell, born in Marylebone, England, politician, Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood, Cabinet Minister 1947 Birthday Roelof P Meyer, South Africa under minister of Law and Order etc 1947 Birthday John Bruton, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland 1946 Event Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities 1946 Birthday Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1946 Birthday Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office 1946 Birthday John Astor, born in Britain, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, businessman, Conservative Party, House of Lords, Shadow Minister of Defense 1946 Death Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67 1946 Death Harry L Hopkins, U.S. Minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at 55 1945 Birthday Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister, 1994-, VVD 1945 Death Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/Prime Minister 1937 - 1939, 1940 - 1941, commits harakiri 1945 Death Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1945 Event Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1945 Birthday Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006 1945 Event Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister 1945 Birthday Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State, Scotland 1945 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Death Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies 1945 Death Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide 1945 Event Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki 1945 Birthday Wim J Deetman, Dutch minister of education and MP, CDA 1945 Birthday Lord Skelmersdale, British minister, C 1945 Death Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61 1944 Birthday D J D Dees, pharmacist/Dutch minister of WVC, VVD 1944 Birthday Enneus Heerma, Dutch minister of Housing, CDA 1944 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 Birthday Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1984-89 1944 Death Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies 1944 Birthday Quentin Davies, born in Oxford, England, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford 1987 - 1997, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Prime Minister, Gordon Brown 1944 Death ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1944 Birthday Said Musa, born in San Ignacio, Belize, lawyer, politician, People's United Party, Fifth Prime Minister of Belize 1944 Event Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death 1944 Event Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war 1944 Birthday Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense, PvdA 1943 Birthday JHR Maij-Wegge, Dutch traffic minister, 19..-94 1943 Death Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1943 Death Folkert E Posthuma, Minister of Agriculture, dies 1943 Birthday Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister Solomon Islands 1943 Birthday John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1943 Birthday Peter Graves, supt minister, Westminster Central Hall 1943 Death Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71 1943 Birthday Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior, VVD, 1994- 1943 Death HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at 71 1943 Death John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies 1942 Birthday Frank Field, born in Edmonton, London, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Birkhead, served as Minister of Welfare Reform 1942 Event Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government 1942 Birthday Roger Freeman, British minister of transport 1942 Death Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 1942 Death Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50 1941 Event Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" 1941 Birthday Hermanus J Kriel, South African minister of Planning, 1989- 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1941 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 Birthday Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician, VVD, minister of Traffic 1941 Birthday George Young, MP/British minister of housing and planning 1941 Event Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence 1941 Death Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 1941 Death Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 1940 Death Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 1940 Birthday Richard F Pieternella, Dutch Antilles' minister plenipotentiary 1940 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1940 Event British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission 1940 Event Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks 1940 Birthday Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy, 1989- 1940 Event Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) 1940 Birthday Kenneth Clarke, British minister 1940 Event General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense 1940 Event Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1940 Event Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 1940 Event Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain 1940 Event Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege 1940 Death Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54 1940 Birthday Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance, 1984- 1939 Birthday Christoffel "Stoffel" van de Merwe, South Africa minister of Education 1939 Event Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Event Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow 1939 Birthday Ronald [Ronny] A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles 1939 Birthday H Onno C R Ruding, director, Amrobank, Dutch Financial minister, CDA 1939 Birthday Peter Duffell, Brits Lieutenant-General/minister of Defense 1939 Birthday Margaretha de Boer, Dutch minister, PvdA 1939 Birthday Brian Mulroney, P-C, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 - 1993 1938 Birthday Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei 1938 Birthday Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care 1938 Event British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 Event Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers" 1938 Death Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at 44 1938 Birthday Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, CDA 1938 Event British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1938 Death Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at 81 1937 Event Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania/begins spread of Judaism 1937 Death Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1937 Event Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work 1937 Birthday Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs 1937 Death James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1937 Death George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73 1937 Event Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme" 1937 Birthday Hedy d'Ancona, Dutch minister of WVC, PvdA 1937 Birthday Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education 1937 Event Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England 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 Death Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43 1936 Birthday Rudolf W de Korte, Dutch Unilever-director/minister EA, L 1936 Death Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister 1918 - 1923, 1929 - 1933, dies 1936 Birthday Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea 1936 Birthday A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense, PvdA 1936 Birthday Eldred G Maduro, minister, Netherland Antilles 1936 Birthday Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education, 1979-82 1935 Birthday Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister 1935 Death Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 1935 Event Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia 1935 Birthday Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance, PvdA, President, Nethche Bank 1935 Birthday Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense, 1986- 1935 Birthday Reverend Ike, South Carolina, evangelist minister, Joy of Living 1934 Birthday Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1986 - 1991, 1994 - 1996 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 1934 Death Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 1934 Death Jules Renkin, Belgian Prime Minister 1931 - 1932, dies 1934 Birthday Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid, CDA 1933 Event Rudolf Hess and Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government 1933 Death Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1933 Death Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies 1933 Birthday Erwin Nypels, Dutch economist/minister of Housing, D66 1933 Birthday Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture and land and fishing, CDA 1933 Birthday Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march 1933 Birthday Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch CEO, Shell, and Minister of Defense, VVD 1933 Birthday Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense, 1986, MP 1933 Event Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1933 Event Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers 1933 Death Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education, dies at 86 1933 Event German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts 1932 Event Pieter G. Marais, South Africa minister of Education/Development aid 1932 Birthday Eric Varley, born in England, born Eric Varley, Baron Varley of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire, politician, Labor Party, Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament for Chesterfield 1932 Birthday Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state 1932 Birthday Timothy Renton, born in England, born Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, politician, Conservative Party, Minister of State, Margaret Thatcher's Chief Whip, Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex 1932 Birthday James Lester, born in Nottingham, England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Beeston, served as party whip, junior employment minister 1932 Death Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies 1932 Death Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59 1932 Birthday Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1932 Death Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered 1931 Birthday Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister 1931 Birthday Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Dutch Internal minister, 1989-94 1931 Birthday Henricus AFMO "Hans" van Mierlo, Dutch minister of Defense, D66 1931 Birthday Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior 1931 Death Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 1931 Birthday Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs 1931 Birthday F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice, VVD 1931 Birthday Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice 1930 Death Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 1930 Death Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies 1930 Birthday Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture, 1985- 1930 Event Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia 1930 Birthday Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France 1930 Birthday Shirley Williams, co-founder, Social Democratic Party, labour minister 1930 Death Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85 1930 Birthday Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1975 - 1983 1930 Birthday Don Conicannon, government minister 1930 Birthday Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs 1930 Birthday Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister of Bahamas, 1967 - 1992 1930 Birthday Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense, 1980- 1929 Birthday Robert J L Hawke, Lab, Prime Minister Australia, 1983 - 1991 1929 Birthday Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs, ARP 1929 Death Furst Bernhard von Bulow, Prime Minister Prussia 1900 - 1909, dies at 80 1929 Event Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister 1929 Death Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68 1929 Birthday Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment 1929 Event Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor) 1928 Birthday Albert Booth, British government minister 1928 Death Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66 1928 Birthday Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, Prime Minister of Italy, 1988 - 1989 1928 Event Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101 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 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch internal minister, VVD, 1982-86 1927 Birthday Eli van der Merwe Louw, South Africa minister of Transport/Manpower 1927 Birthday Andre Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier 1927 Birthday Gualberto T. Hernandez, perfect minister Netherlands Antilles 1927 Event William T. Francis named minister to Liberia 1927 Birthday Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP 1927 Birthday Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated 1926 Event Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA 1926 Birthday Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation 1926 Birthday Jan de Koning, minister of Agriculture/Social Businesses, CDA 1926 Birthday Joshua Hassan, chief minister, Gibralter 1926 Birthday Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland 1925 Birthday Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 1925 Death Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies 1925 Birthday M L de Braauw, Dutch minister, DS'70 1925 Death Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 1925 Birthday Tony Benn, British minister of technology, 1968 1925 Death Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76 1925 Death George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 1925 Death Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72 1925 Event German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France 1925 Birthday Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community 1925 Event German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption 1924 Event Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England 1924 Birthday Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA 1924 Birthday Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister 1924 Birthday Rainer Barzel, German leader, CDU-CSU, minister 1924 Death Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Jr., Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87 1923 Birthday Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense, 1991 coup 1923 Death Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 1923 Birthday Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister 1923 Event Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances 1923 Birthday Reginald Prentice, British government minister 1923 Event Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK 1923 Event U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition 1923 Event Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA 1922 Birthday Lord Colinbrook, British government minister 1922 Death Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 1922 Death Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/Minister of Justice, dies at 85 1922 Birthday Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs 1921 Event Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia 1921 Birthday "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister 1921 Death Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45 1921 Birthday Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs 1921 Birthday Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director, IMF 1921 Birthday Willem J "Wim" the Villiers, South Africa minister of Administration 1921 Birthday Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister, KVP 1921 Event Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies 1921 Death Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 1920 Death Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer 1920 Birthday Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 - 1920 Death Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered 1920 Birthday Errol Walton Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados, DLP, 1966 - 1976, 1986 - 1987 1919 Birthday Kiichi Miyazawa, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, politician, 78th Japanese Prime Minister 1919 Birthday Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president 1919 Birthday Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem party minister, CRM 1965-66 1919 Birthday Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919 Birthday Julian Amery, conservative minister 1918 Death Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies 1918 Death Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1918 Birthday Willem J "Molly" Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister 1918 Birthday Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/president Netherlands Bank 1918 Event Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia 1918 Birthday Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister, health and environment 1918 Death Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister 1896 - 1911, dies 1917 Death Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1917 Birthday Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister 1917 Birthday Francis Jackson, organist and master of Music/York minister 1917 Birthday Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister, ZAPUA 1916 Birthday Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education 1916 Death Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52 1916 Birthday Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74 1916 Event Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov 1916 Birthday [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76 1915 Birthday Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77 1915 Event Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia 1915 Birthday Harry van Doorn, Henri W, CRM minister/Dutch politician, KVP/PPR 1915 Birthday Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense, 1956-62 1915 Birthday Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 1915 Birthday Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense 1915 Birthday Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979 - 1990 1915 Birthday Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense, 1958-.. 1914 Birthday Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense, 1971-73 1914 Death Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73 1914 Event Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War 1914 Event Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow 1914 Death Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 1914 Birthday Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister 1914 Event Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1913 Event George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia 1913 Birthday Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978 1913 Birthday Kofi Busia, born in Wenchi, Ghana, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Catholic, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972 1913 Birthday Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian jurist/foreign minister 1912 Death Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 1912 Death William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 1912 Birthday Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1912 Birthday Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice, PvdA, mayor of Amsterdam 1912 Birthday James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79 1912 Birthday Cuthbert Alport, born in England, born Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Lord Alport, Baron Alport, politician, Conservative Party, Cabinet Minister, life peer, Deputy Lieutenant for Essex 1912 Death Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57 1912 Birthday Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information 1911 Birthday Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs 1911 Birthday Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78 1911 Death Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab], Egyptian minister, dies 1911 Birthday Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general, NATO 1911 Birthday Lord Shackelton, explorer/government minister 1911 Event Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War 1911 Birthday Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister 1911 Birthday Karl O. Schiller, German economist, Minister of Economics 1910 Birthday Gerhard Schroder, German minister of Defense 1910 Birthday Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil, 1962 1910 Event William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia 1909 Birthday Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68 1909 Death Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70 1909 Death Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, French Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79 1909 Death Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 1908 Birthday Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco 1908 Birthday Edgar Faure, thriller writer/Prime Minister of France, 1952, 1952 - 1956 1908 Birthday Lord Renton, QC/British government minister 1908 Birthday Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67, ; supported U.S. in Vietnam 1908 Birthday Ronald Selby Wright, minister 1908 Birthday Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister, Linggadjati 1908 Birthday William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1971 - 1972 1907 Birthday Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power 1907 Birthday Margaret Herbison, British minister, Lab 1906 Death Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies 1906 Birthday Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles 1906 Birthday Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister, Lanzas Coloradas 1906 Event English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1905 Event Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes Prime Minister of England 1905 Event Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti 1905 Event French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request 1905 Birthday Jan H van Roijen, diplomat and Netherland foreign minister 1905 Birthday Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium, 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972 1905 Birthday Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament, NSDAP 1904 Birthday Juan E Yrausquin, founder, Party of Patriot Arubans, minister 1904 Birthday Hendrik J Hofstra, Dutch minister of Finance, PvdA 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 1904 Death Peter Prime Minister Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76 1903 Birthday August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state 1903 Birthday Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64 1903 Birthday Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7 1903 Birthday Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia 1902 Birthday Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs 1902 Death Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies 1902 Birthday Piet[er J] "Piet" Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance, 1945-52 1902 Birthday Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education, 1946/54-58 1902 Death Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1902 Death Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 1902 Death Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister 1866, dies 1902 Birthday Geoffrey W. Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy, 1951-55 1902 Death Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at 66 1901 Death Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies 1901 Birthday Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63 1901 Death Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 1901 Birthday Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador 1901 Birthday Achmed Sukarno, born in Java, Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1945 - 1967 1901 Birthday Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice, Nobel 1954 1900 Birthday Edward R. Stettinius, U.S., foreign minister, 1944 - 1945, diplomat 1900 Birthday Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister, Lutheran World Relief 1900 Death George J D Campbell, British Minister of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 1899 Birthday Leendert A Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice, PvdA 1899 Event U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 1899 Birthday Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies, Islam and Woman 1898 Birthday Hanns Eisler, German/U.S. composer/East German minister for propaganda 1898 Birthday Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74 1898 Birthday Theophilus E. Donges, South African minister of Internal Affairs 1898 Event Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia 1897 Death John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79 1897 Death Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, murdered at 69 1897 Event William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to Haiti 1897 Birthday Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57 1897 Birthday V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense 1897 Birthday Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO 1897 Birthday Peter Veres, literary/Hungarian minister of defense 1896 Birthday Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense, WW II 1896 Event Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War 1896 Death Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (C), dies 1896 Event Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister 1895 Birthday Levi Eshkol, Sjkolnik, Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69 1895 Death Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72 1895 Death Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73 1895 Event William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia 1895 Birthday Hans Fischbock, Austria, Finance minister, Nazi-occupied Holland 1894 Birthday Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs, 1939-46, diplomat 1894 Birthday John H van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice/Internal minister 1894 Death Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 1894 Birthday Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies, 1942-45 1894 Birthday [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63 1894 Birthday Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of Spanish Republic, 1936 - 1939 1894 Birthday Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization 1893 Birthday Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, Prime Minister of China PR, 1949 - 1976 1893 Death Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 1893 Death John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 1893 Birthday Sidney Holland, New Zealand, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949 - 1957 1893 Birthday Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport 1893 Birthday Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, 1925-30 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 1893 Birthday Hermann Goering, propoganda minister, Nazi Germany 1892 Death Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/Minister of Justice, dies at 80 1892 Birthday James Forrestal, U.S., banker/minister of Navy 1892 Birthday Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister, Organization Todt 1892 Birthday Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39 1892 Event William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia 1891 Birthday Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs 1891 Event John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti 1891 Birthday Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council 1891 Birthday Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47 1891 Birthday Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice, 1926-33 1891 Death Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 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 Event Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia 1890 Birthday Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education 1890 Birthday Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN 1889 Death Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83 1889 Event Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti 1889 Birthday [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of airplane manufacturing, 1942 - 1945 1889 Birthday Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs 1888 Birthday Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India 1888 Death Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies 1888 Death Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 1888 Birthday Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier 1887 Birthday Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/Minister of Middenstand 1887 Birthday Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier, 1942-45 1887 Death Pieter Blusse van Alblas, liberal minister of Finance, dies at 75 1886 Birthday Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam, 1945-52 1886 Birthday David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel, 1948 - 1953, 1955 1886 Birthday Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, statesman/minister to London, 1918-35 1886 Birthday Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland, PvdA, 1948 - 1958, Indonesia, AOW 1886 Birthday Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy 1885 Birthday Ruth Bryan Rohde, U.S., Rep, minister to Denmark 1885 Event Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia 1885 Death Antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46 1885 Birthday Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940 1885 Event John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti 1884 Birthday Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II 1884 Birthday Philippe van Isacker, Belgian minister 1884 Birthday Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News 1884 Death Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72 1884 Birthday Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs, 1940 1883 Birthday Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/Foreign Minister/UN-ambassador 1883 Birthday Joseph A. Schumpeter, Austria/U.S. economist/minister of finance 1883 Birthday Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 1881 Event Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia 1881 Birthday Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1880 Death Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 1880 Death Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French minister of Justice, dies at 83 1880 Birthday French van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp 1879 Birthday Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Noverheid/mayor 1879 Death Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 1878 Birthday Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice 1878 Birthday Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr 1878 Event Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 1878 Birthday Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925 - 1928 1877 Death Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 1877 Event John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti 1877 Birthday Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister, 1939-45 1877 Birthday Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34 1877 Birthday Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-.. 1877 Birthday Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 1876 Event U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap 1875 Birthday Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo 1874 Birthday Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Birthday Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65 1874 Birthday Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-27 1874 Birthday Arthur Meighen, Canada, Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Birthday Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1874 Death Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgian pontifical defense minister, dies at 54 1874 Birthday Arthur Meighen, C, 9th Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Birthday Folkert E. Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry 1874 Birthday Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, Prime Minister of Poland, 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926 1873 Birthday Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies, India 1873 Death Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78 1873 Birthday Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War 1873 Birthday Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31 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 1871 Birthday Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education, 1939-4- 1871 Birthday Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944 1871 Birthday Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, 1918-25 1871 Event J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia 1870 Birthday Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice, 1918-19 1870 Death Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76 1869 Event Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1869 Birthday Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State 1869 Death Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at 69 1869 Birthday Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40 1869 Birthday Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts, VVD 1868 Death Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies 1868 Birthday Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount, jurist and minister 1867 Birthday Henry Lewis Stimson, U.S. minister of War, 1911-13 1867 Birthday Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 1867 Death Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74 1866 Birthday James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35 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 Death Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 1864 Birthday George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen, PTT, Dutch Minister of War, 1918-20 1864 Birthday Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911 1863 Birthday Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier 1863 Death Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies 1863 Death John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies 1862 Birthday Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier, 1931-32 1862 Birthday Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919 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 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24 1861 Death Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84 1861 Birthday Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16 1861 Death Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74 1860 Birthday Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister, 1908-13 1860 Birthday Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20 1858 Birthday Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23 1857 Birthday Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education 1857 Death Felix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 1856 Birthday Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT 1855 Birthday Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance 1854 Birthday Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs 1854 Birthday Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense, 1916-17 1853 Event 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1853 Birthday Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Birthday Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony 1852 Death Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 1852 Birthday Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister 1852 Birthday Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister 1852 Birthday Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister, 1918 1849 Death Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Minister of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 1849 Birthday Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia, 1900 - 1903 1848 Death William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 Birthday Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration 1848 Birthday Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War 1847 Birthday Jacob T Cremer, Minister of Colonies/president, Dutch Trading Comp 1847 Birthday Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister, 1894 - 1895 1846 Birthday Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1846 Birthday Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education 1845 Death Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 69 1844 Birthday John S D Thompson, C, 4th Prime Minister of Canada, 1892 - 1894 1844 Birthday Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, New Zealand prime minister, 1884-87 1843 Birthday Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs 1843 Death Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65 1841 Death Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74 1841 Birthday Bert van Tienhoven, mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister 1841 Birthday Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister 1839 Death Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89 1838 Birthday Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies 1838 Birthday Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice, 1879-83 1837 Birthday Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader, CHU 1837 Death Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 1837 Birthday Charles Woeste, Belgian count/Minister of Justice 1837 Birthday Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws 1836 Birthday Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27 1836 Birthday Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08 1836 Birthday Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies 1835 Birthday Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior 1835 Death Willem F Roell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67 1834 Death Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 1832 Death Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies 1831 Birthday Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies 1830 Birthday Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education 1830 Birthday Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902 1830 Birthday James G Blaine, U.S., minister of foreign affairs 1830 Birthday Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900 1829 Birthday Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England 1829 Birthday Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice 1828 Death Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60 1827 Birthday William GGVV Harcourt, English lawyer/Minister of Finance 1827 Death George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1826 Birthday Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views 1825 Birthday Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister 1823 Birthday George JD Campbell, Scottish/British Minister to Indies, 1868-74/80-85 1822 Death Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 1822 Birthday Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies, 1888-90 1822 Birthday Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister, 1877-79 1822 Birthday Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice 1822 Birthday Alexander MacKenzie, L, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, 1873 - 1878 1821 Birthday Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat 1821 Death [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55 1820 Birthday Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope, in Rome 1818 Birthday Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier 1818 Birthday John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister, 1866..88 1818 Birthday Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances, 1879-81 1818 Death Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian Field Marshal/War Minister, dies 1817 Birthday Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister, 1870-71 1817 Birthday Leroy Pope Walker, U.S. lawyer/Confederate minister of War, 1861 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 1815 Birthday Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat 1815 Birthday John A. MacDonald, C, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, 1867 - 1873 1814 Event Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance 1813 Event Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance 1813 Death Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian Minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle 1813 Birthday Jozsef Eotvos, Hungarian Minister of Education, 1848 1812 Birthday Pieter Blusse van Oud-Alblas, Dutch liberal minister of Finance 1812 Birthday Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/Minister of Justice 1812 Death Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61 1811 Death Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47 1810 Birthday Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son 1809 Birthday William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94 1809 Birthday Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance 1809 Death Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies 1807 Event George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1806 Birthday Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education 1806 Death William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain 1783 - 1806, dies at 46 1804 Birthday Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80 1804 Death Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1804 Birthday Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice, 1856-58 1804 Birthday Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education 1803 Birthday Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice 1802 Birthday [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgian Minister of Foreign affairs, 1831 1801 Birthday Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies, 1848-49 1799 Birthday Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Minister of Reformed Worship 1799 Birthday Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 1797 Birthday Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs 1796 Birthday Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French lawyer/minister of Justice 1795 Birthday Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, 1848 . .53 1793 Birthday Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/Minister of Internal Affairs, 1848-49 1793 Birthday Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1792 Birthday Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education 1792 Birthday Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice, liberal 1792 Death John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73 1791 Birthday Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance 1791 Birthday Felix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance 1788 Event Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance 1788 Death Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 1787 Event 1st Unitarian minister in U.S. ordained, Boston 1786 Birthday Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister 1784 Birthday Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1784 Death Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1782 Birthday Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28 1780 Birthday Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs 1780 Birthday Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse 1779 Birthday William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41 1778 Birthday Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1777 Birthday Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat 1777 Birthday Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, 1813-14 1776 Event Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns 1776 Birthday Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs 1770 Birthday Earl of Liverpool, C, British Prime Minister, 1812-27 1770 Birthday Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs 1770 Birthday George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827 1770 Birthday George Canning, C, British Prime Minister, 1827 1769 Birthday Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice, 1807..42 1769 Birthday Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister, C, 1828-30 1768 Birthday Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35 1767 Birthday Willem F Roell, Dutch Internal minister 1767 Birthday Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance 1767 Birthday Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance 1765 Birthday [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot 1764 Birthday Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies 1764 Birthday Charles Earl Grey, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1830-34 1764 Birthday Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral/minister of Navy 1763 Birthday Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1762 Birthday Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12 1762 Birthday Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs 1761 Birthday Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russian minister of War 1761 Birthday Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War 1761 Birthday Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War 1761 Birthday Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, born in Switzerland, U.S. minister of Finance, 1801 - 1814 1759 Birthday Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/Minister of Justice 1759 Birthday Baron Grenville, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1806-07 1757 Birthday Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, C, British Prime Minister, 1801-04 1757 Event English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr. 1755 Event English minister William Pitt Sr resigns 1755 Birthday Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War, 1807-10 1754 Death Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1753 Birthday Jean J R de Cambacere, French lawyer/minister of justice 1752 Death Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 1751 Death Jozef LD von Konigsegg, minister of Austrian Netherlands, dies at 78 1750 Birthday Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister 1750 Birthday Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War, 1798-1800, 1803-06 1743 Death Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies 1738 Birthday Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09 1737 Event French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns 1735 Event Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street 1732 Birthday Frederick North, C, British Prime Minister, 1770-82 1730 Event Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min) 1730 Birthday Marquess of Rockingham, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1765-66, 1782 1727 Birthday Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance 1724 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs 1724 Event Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War 1723 Death Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent 1715 - 1723, Prime Minister 1723, dies 1723 Birthday Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet 1712 Death Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 1712 Birthday George Grenville, British Prime Minister, 1763-65 1712 Death Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 1710 Event Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance 1702 Death Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 1696 Event De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance 1693 Birthday Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, English minister of finance 1690 Birthday John Carteret, Earl Granville, C, English chief minister, 1722-42 1683 Event Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 1683 Death Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 1676 Birthday Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42 1674 Death Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English Prime Minister 1660 - 1667, dies at 65 1673 Birthday Jozef LD von Konigsegg, Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands 1664 Birthday Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal 1661 Death Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1661 Death Jules "Cardinal" Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies at 58 1651 Birthday John Baron Somers, Whig, William III's chief minister, 1696-1700 1647 Birthday Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs 1641 Death Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 1624 Event Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII 1621 Death Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 1621 Birthday Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister, 1660-73 1619 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron 1616 Event Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War 1615 Birthday John Biddle, English minister, Unitarian 1612 Death Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 1612 Death Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48 1602 Birthday Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister, 1642-61 1596 Death John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1588 Death Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies 1569 Death Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer 1567 Death Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 1566 Death John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1563 Birthday Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612 1561 Birthday Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension minister of Leiden 1560 Birthday Maximilien de Bethune, duke of Sully/baron of Rosny/Prime Minister of France 1553 Event Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1550 Event William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1545 Death Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death 1540 Death Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1524 Death Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death 1510 Death Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies 1494 Birthday John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister 1272 Death David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies 1231 Death Antonius van Padua, Fernando M de Bulhom, Port minister, dies at 35 1115 Death Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64
