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2009 At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed

2009 Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military

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

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 executive director of National Urban League

1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan

1971 Joseph 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 Senator Jacob Javits

1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname

1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

1964 General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam

1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia

1962 Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court

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 Prime Minister 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 Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia

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 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea

1953 Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary 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 General 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

1943 General 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 General 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 Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad

1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia

1934 Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush

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 General Manager of New York Yankees

1920 Dirk Fock appointed as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies

1920 General 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 Secretary of Commerce

1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor

1903 Andre Fleury, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, composer, organist, studied organ at the Paris Conservatory under Eugene Gigout, appointed professor of organ at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris

1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1899 Field Marshal 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 Brigadier-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 Secretary 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 Major James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers

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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