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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 Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1994 Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56 1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1993 Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 1992 Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister 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, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 1986 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58 1985 U.S. Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin 1983 Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch Minister 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 Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 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 Minister 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. Minister 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 Minister 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 Minister 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 Minister (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 Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1950 Senator 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, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1944 Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, 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 Assistant Secretary 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 Prime Minister 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 J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 1937 Elihu Root, U.S. Minister 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 Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94 1933 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies 1932 Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 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 Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States 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 Secretary-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, Czechoslovakian 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 Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs 1902 Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies 1900 Edward R. Stettinius, U.S., foreign minister, 1944 - 1945, diplomat 1899 U.S. Minister 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 Minister 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-etienne 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 Minister/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 Minister 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, English minister 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 Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1845 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister 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/Minister 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 Minister 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, Minister 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 Belgian Minister 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 Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1784 Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 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, Spanish Minister 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 Minister 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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