2003 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies at 46
1998 Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
1998 Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
1995 Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1994 Antoine Pinay, French PM (1952)/foreign minister, dies at 102
1994 George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1994 Johan J Holst, Norwegian min of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56
1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1993 Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1993 Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
1992 Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign min to Spain (1985-92), dies
1992 Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84
1991 U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
1991 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
1991 Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
1991 Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies
1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
1991 Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1991 Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured
1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons
1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
1987 U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
1986 Pierre Wigny, Belg minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81
1986 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58
1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1983 Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1982 George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1980 Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61
1979 Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1977 U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed
1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights
1973 Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1971 Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1966 Christian A Herter, U.S. Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1962 John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea
1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67
1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
1958 Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania)
1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
1956 Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1956 Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min (1932-38), dies
1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1955 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
1954 Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1953 GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950 Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1949 Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies
1949 Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged
1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India)
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1948 Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1944 Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1944 Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect, CDA
1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City
1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1943 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1943 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1942 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 Michiel Patijn, Dutch asst sect of state of Foreign affairs, 1994-
1942 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1938 U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1937 Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80
1937 Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs
1937 Elihu Root, U.S. min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1936 Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister, -1992
1936 Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea
1934 J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch foreign min/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94
1933 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country, Detroit - Windsor, opens
1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary
1930 Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs
1929 Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
1929 Gyula Andrassy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
1928 Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of U.S.S.R., -91
1927 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
1927 John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office
1927 Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP
1925 Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1925 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1924 Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA
1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on U.S. radio (WJZ, New York City)
1923 U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition
1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-U.S. foreign service
1922 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
1922 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister, KVP
1920 Don Cook, foreign Correspondent
1920 Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs
1919 Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president
1918 Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1918 Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
1916 Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
1914 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
1913 Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1912 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City
1912 Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57
1911 Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78
1911 Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general, NATO
1911 Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister
1911 Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress, Assignment Foreign Legion
1909 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68
1908 Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister, Linggadjati
1906 Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1906 English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1905 Jan H van Roijen, diplomat and Netherland foreign minister
1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1904 Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1902 Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs
1902 Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies
1900 Edward R Stettinius, U.S., foreign minister, 1944-45, /diplomat
1899 U.S. min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
1897 Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, /Dutch foreign minister/NATO
1894 Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs, 1939-46, /diplomat
1894 Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
1894 Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent
1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fuhrer/foreign minister
1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52
1893 James G Blaine, U.S. minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
1892 Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39
1891 Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, /minister of Foreign affairs
1891 Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47
1890 Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN
1889 Pierre-tienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs
1885 Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister, -1940
1883 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs
1877 Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-..
1874 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-27
1872 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min, 1916-18
1872 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
1872 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
1872 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
1868 Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
1867 Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant
1867 Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1866 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, 1913-18
1865 Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English min of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1864 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925
1862 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
1861 George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
1861 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16
1860 Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister, 1908-13
1860 Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20
1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S.
1854 Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs
1852 Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70
1852 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister
1852 Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister, 1918
1846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
1845 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 69
1845 Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1843 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs
1841 Bert van Tienhoven, mayor, Amsterdam, /foreign minister
1841 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor, Amsterdam, /foreign minister
1837 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
1836 Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27
1835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
1834 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71
1830 James G Blaine, U.S., minister of foreign affairs
1827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57
1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1821 Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
1816 Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
1816 Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs, 1852-53
1812 U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1810 Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son
1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1802 [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs, 1831
1797 Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs
1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1789 Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
1784 John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State (foreign affairs)
1784 Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
1780 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs
1778 "Stars and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1770 Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs
1764 Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster
1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
1762 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs
1754 Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
1750 Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
1647 Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs
1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1550 William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer
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