2015 Event Pope Francis ends his visit to Cuba by blessing Santiago de Cuba, then flies to the U.S., where he is greeted by the Obama and Biden families; the pontiff will likely speak on migration and the environment during his stay 2015 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encounters resistance to proposed labor reforms as 150 million workers go on strike for a day in protest; Modi is seeking to make the Indian business environment more attractive to investment by foreign companies 2013 Event Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets 2010 Event The U.N. environment agency appoints actor Don Cheadle Goodwill Ambassador at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day 1972 Event U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm 1952 Birthday Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment, PvdA 1950 Birthday Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment, VVD 1945 Birthday Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect, State of Environment 1929 Birthday Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment 1925 Birthday Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment 1918 Birthday Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister, health and environment 1895 Birthday Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment
