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

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

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

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

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

1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president

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

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

1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow

1988 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs

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

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

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

1983 Joseph Mazzello, actor, Internal Affairs

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

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

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

1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested

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

1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

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

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

1973 Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as Minister of Foreign affairs

1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

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

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

1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow

1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed

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

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

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

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

1956 Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, 1994-

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

1954 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 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva

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

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

1947 British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office

1944 Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs, PvdA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1931 Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs

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

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

1929 Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs, ARP

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

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

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

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

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

1922 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs

1921 Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs

1916 Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov

1911 Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs

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

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

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

1903 Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1884 Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs, 1940

1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1843 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs

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

1835 Willem F Roell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67

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

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

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

1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established

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

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

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

1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs

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

1797 Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs

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

1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State

1789 Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department

1784 Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs

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

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

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

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

1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs

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

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

1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs

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

1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War

1550 William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs

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


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