2015 Event Pope Francis appoints 20 new cardinals from a diverse array of nations, including Vietnam, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Tonga, Mexico, Myanmar, Uruguay, France and Thailand; three-fourths of the cardinals will have authority to vote on a papal successor 2014 Event United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg as a U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change 2013 Event U.S. automaker General Motors appoints Mary Barra CEO; she becomes the first female to become CEO of an automative company 2013 Event After the death of Frank Lautenberg, Governor Chris Christie appoints Jeffrey Chiesa as U.S. Senator for New Jersey until a special election is held later this year 2013 Event U.S. President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as the new director of the FBI 2013 Event Saudi Arabia appoints Fahd bin Abdullah as its new deputy defense minister 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 Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event Greece appoints Yiannis Stournaras as its new finance minister 2012 Event Pope Benedict XVI announces seven new saints - including American saint Kateri Tekakwitha - and appoints 22 new cardinals 2012 Event Queen Elizabeth II appoints John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, and artist David Hockney, to the Order of Merit 2011 Event The European Central BAnk appoints Italy's Mario Draghi as its new President, set to replace Jean-Claude Trichet on November 1 2011 Event The U.S. Democratic National Committee appoints Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Chairwoman 2011 Event Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years 2010 Event The United Nations appoints Russia diplomat, Yury Fedotov, to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2010 Event The U.N. environment agency appoints actor Don Cheadle Goodwill Ambassador at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day 1990 Event U.N. appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador 1989 Event Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop 1986 Event President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator 1985 Event President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser 1980 Event President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) 1972 Event Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep 1945 Event President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1942 Event Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia 1939 Event Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration 1933 Event German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor 1924 Event King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief 1904 Event Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1877 Event President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C. 1870 Event Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France 1862 Event Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief 1861 Event Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain 1861 Event President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession 1823 Event President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America 1798 Event Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books 1776 Event Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence 1700 Event Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne 1698 Event Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir 1658 Event Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor 1633 Event Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg 1610 Event Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king 1590 Event States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht 1556 Event Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain 1551 Event Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne 1550 Event William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1483 Event Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English king Richard III 936 Event Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
