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1997 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier 1995 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi 1994 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan 1994 Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team 1993 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president 1993 Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey 1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies 1990 Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner 1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL 1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop 1988 Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court 1987 New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate 1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court 1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen 1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R. 1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia 1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge 1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect 1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat 1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI 1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus 1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh 1975 John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court 1974 Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam 1973 H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches 1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French premier 1971 Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court 1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League 1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan 1971 J Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court 1969 Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya 1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO 1969 Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier 1965 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits 1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname 1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam 1964 Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam 1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia 1962 Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court 1962 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp 1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal 1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77 1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels 1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court 1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court 1961 Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo 1958 Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa 1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia 1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1956 William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland 1956 D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia 1955 Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht 1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname 1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge 1955 HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 1954 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad 1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. 1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia 1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member 1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1953 Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st Secretary-General of U.S.S.R. 1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier 1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea 1953 Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female asst sect of state 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 1952 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL 1952 Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary 1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht 1950 Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy 1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India 1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1945 Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in U.S. State Department 1943 Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day 1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia 1943 Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general 1942 "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein 1942 Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff 1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 1940 NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1939 Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia 1933 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator 1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas 1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI 1922 Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent 1922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of New York Yankees 1920 Dirk Fock appointed as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies 1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1916 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson 1914 John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City 1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti 1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War 1910 World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) 1910 William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia 1910 William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. 1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce 1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1899 Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1897 Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia 1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator, appointed 1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C. 1878 DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) 1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield 1870 Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge 1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy 1865 Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1863 George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin 1846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) 1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country 1841 Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah) 1832 Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies 1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress 1801 John Marshall appointed U.S. chief justice 1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; 1789 President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 1787 Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor 1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions 1777 Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn) 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1755 Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht 1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand 1746 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor 1746 Henry Pelham appointed English premier 1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor 1722 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1722 Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) 1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England 1699 Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague 1683 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London 1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet 1654 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel 1653 Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France 1641 Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands 1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil 1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen 1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander 1629 Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies 1625 Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe 1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen 1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1624 Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII 1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies 1612 Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I 1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury 1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony 1610 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia 1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague) 1584 Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais 1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor 1551 English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland 1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1529 Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor 1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru 1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor 1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York 1483 Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain 1203 Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium 979 Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom 976 Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba 866 John appointed bishop of the kingdom 644 Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam

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