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2013 Event - The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked

2012 Event - After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy

2011 Event - Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack

2011 Event - Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy

2011 Event - In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee

2011 Event - For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea

2010 Event - Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle

1999 Event - During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China

1995 Event - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16

1992 Event - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad

1991 Event - U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens

1989 Event - Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy

1984 Event - Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23

1984 Event - Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead

1984 Death - Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead

1983 Event - A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait

1983 Event - Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon

1982 Event - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland

1980 Event - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv

1980 Event - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building

1980 Event - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London

1980 Event - Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy

1980 Event - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

1980 Event - Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

1980 Event - Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran

1979 Event - Crowds attack U.S. embassy at Tripoli Libya

1979 Event - Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack U.S. embassy, 1 dies

1979 Event - Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage

1979 Event - 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)

1979 Event - 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)

1978 Event - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran

1978 Event - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar

1978 Event - Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead

1978 Event - Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris

1975 Event - Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders

1975 Event - West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm, Sweden

1973 Event - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum

1972 Birthday - Mindy Carson, born in New York City, vocalist, Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue

1971 Event - Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in U.S. Embassy in

1968 Event - Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon

1967 Event - Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered

1964 Event - U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy

1960 Event - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta

1931 Birthday - Florian Zabach, born in Chicago, Illinois, violinist, Hot Canary, Club Embassy

1928 Event - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die

1924 Birthday - Connie Russell, New York City, singer, Club Embassy, Garroway at Large

1902 Birthday - Edward Durell Stone, U.S., architect, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi

1868 Event - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China

1860 Event - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh

1835 Event - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms

1557 Event - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement

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