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2013 Event - Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets

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 - 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 - A German government plan proposing that a eurozone 'budget commissioner' take control of Greece's economic affairs is leaked

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

2010 Event - John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005

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

1998 Event - First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy

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

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

1994 Death - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62

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

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

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

1989 Event - Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

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

1988 Event - Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs

1988 Death - Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92

1987 Death - Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77

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

1983 Birthday - Joseph Mazzello, actor, Internal Affairs

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

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

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

1982 Event - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested

1980 Death - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83

1979 Event - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

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

1977 Death - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80

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

1968 Event - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

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

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

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

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

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

1957 Birthday - Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix

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

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

1956 Birthday - Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch assistant secretary of Social Affairs, VVD

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

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 - Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva

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

1950 Birthday - Alan Keyes, born in Long Island, New York, politician, Republican party, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for international Organization Affairs

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

1947 Event - British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office

1944 Birthday - Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs, PvdA

1943 Death - Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76

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

1940 Event - Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

1940 Death - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54

1938 Birthday - Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, CDA

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

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

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

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

1935 Birthday - Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank

1934 Birthday - Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs

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

1931 Birthday - Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs

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

1930 Birthday - Bryan Magee, born in Hoxton, England, broadcaster, author, politician, presented current affairs television show This Week, made philosophy accessible with his 'Men of Ideas' television series

1930 Birthday - Lou A de Graaf, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs, VDA

1929 Birthday - Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs, ARP

1929 Birthday - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs

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

1927 Birthday - James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs

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

1925 Event - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in U.K.

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

1921 Birthday - Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs

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

1911 Birthday - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs

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

1909 Birthday - Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1961-67

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

1903 Birthday - Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia

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

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

1898 Birthday - Theophilus E. Donges, South African minister of Internal Affairs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1884 Birthday - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs, 1940

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

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

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

1870 Death - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76

1867 Birthday - Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta, Ohio, actor, Woman of Affairs, Big Parade

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

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

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

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

1861 Death - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1824 Event - Bureau of Indian Affairs established

1824 Event - U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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

1807 Event - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs

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

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

1793 Birthday - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/Minister of Internal Affairs, 1848-49

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1763 Event - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs

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

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

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

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

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

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

1503 Event - Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs

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