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 2015 Event New anti-austerity Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras halts the public asset privatizations required under Greece's bailout agreement with its foreign creditors; Standard & Poor's has lowered its rating on Greek national debt from stable to negative 2014 Event Swedish officials release a photo of U-boat tracks along the sea floor as proof that a foreign submarine breached the nation�s waters; the search began after the military detected Russian-language distress calls and spotted an unidentified vessel 2014 Event A U.S. lawsuit against IBM and Ford Motor Company, seeking damages for the companies' transactions with the former apartheid government, has been dismissed; the transactions were conducted by foreign units and are not under jurisdiction of U.S. law 2014 Event India's central bank states that domestic credit cards must complete extra validation when used to buy local goods or services; some businesses have avoided the rule by using foreign payment systems, resulting in cash flows out of the country 2014 Event A meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan has been canceled following a Pakistani official's meeting with separatists in Kashmir province, a disputed territory claimed by both nations 2013 Event A report in Le Monde prompts the Foreign Minister of France, Laurent Fabius, to summons the U.S. ambassador over allegations that the U.S. spied on millions of French phone conversations 2013 Event A resolution authorizing limited U.S. military intervention in Syria is approved by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee 2013 Event As the U.S. prepares an alleged imminent attack on Syria, Walid Muallem, Foreign Minister of Syria, denies that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons 2013 Event A meeting of the U.N. General Assembly organized by former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, is boycotted by the United States, Jordan and Canada 2013 Event David Milliband announces plans to resign as Britain's Foreign Secretary and move to U.S. state of New York to head the International Rescue Committee 2013 Event According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities 2012 Event Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are listed first on 'Foreign Policy' magazine's 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 Event Vice foreign minister to Japan, Chikao Kawai, is sent to China to help improve the status of relations between the two countries 2012 Event The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks 2012 Event Jose Garc�a-Margallo y Marfil, Spain's foreign minister, attacks Argentina's decision to nationalize the Argentine oil company YPF 2012 Event The U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, begins a two day tour of Myanmar 2011 Event In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off 2011 Event The Foreign Ministry of Iran calls for Musa al-Sadr to be released; they claim he has been held in Libya since 1978 2011 Event Walid al-Muallem, foreign minister of Syria, denounces the European Union for the travel bans and asset freezes it has imposed on Syria 2011 Event The news of Osama bin Laden's death is received positively by international leaders, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari 2011 Event Nabil al-Araby, Foreign Minister of Egypt, calls for the U.S. to support and independent Palestine 2010 Event The U.S. pledges $10 million in foreign aid money to help victims of the Pakistan floods 2010 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014 2010 Event Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza 2010 Event The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced foreign direct investment into China has risen for the sixth consecutive month, up $8.3 billion year-on-year 2003 Death Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping 1998 Death Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies 1998 Death Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies 1995 Death Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74 1994 Death Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Death George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1994 Death Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56 1993 Event Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Death Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1993 Event Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 1992 Death Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister to Spain (1985-92), dies 1992 Death Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84 1991 Event U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti 1991 Death Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies 1991 Death Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister, dies 1991 Death Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies 1991 Event Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa 1991 Death Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85 1991 Event Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured 1990 Event Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns 1990 Event U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister 1989 Event Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons 1988 Event Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1987 Event U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo 1986 Death Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 1986 Death Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58 1985 Event U.S. Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin 1983 Death Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88 1983 Event House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. 1982 Death Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran 1982 Event George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs 1982 Death Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 1982 Event Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested 1982 Event Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war 1980 Death Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61 1979 Death Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 1979 Event Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns 1977 Event President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights 1971 Death Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78 1968 Event British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1966 Death Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 1965 Event Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies 1963 Event Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden 1962 Event John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1962 Event Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow 1962 Event French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria 1961 Event Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea 1960 Death Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 1958 Death Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Event Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs 1958 Event Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania) 1957 Birthday Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1957 Event Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister 1957 Death Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65 1956 Death Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83 1956 Death Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German Foreign Minister (1932-38), dies 1956 Event Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1956 Event Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister 1956 Death Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1955 Event 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba 1955 Death John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87 1954 Death Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed 1953 Event GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1952 Event Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister 1950 Event French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1949 Death Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies 1949 Death Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged 1949 Event 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) 1949 Event Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 1948 Death Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71 1948 Death Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1944 Death Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies 1944 Birthday Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect, CDA 1944 Event 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City 1943 Event Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime 1943 Death Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 1943 Death Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71 1943 Event 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1942 Event 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) 1942 Event 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French 1942 Birthday Michiel Patijn, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State of Foreign affairs, 1994- 1942 Death Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 1940 Event Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship 1938 Event British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1937 Death Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1937 Birthday Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs 1937 Death J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 1937 Death Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91 1936 Birthday Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister, -1992 1936 Birthday Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea 1934 Death J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered 1934 Birthday Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94 1933 Death Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies 1932 Birthday Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1930 Event 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country, Detroit - Windsor, opens 1930 Birthday Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary 1930 Birthday Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs 1929 Event Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister 1929 Death Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68 1928 Birthday Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of U.S.S.R., -91 1927 Death Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 1927 Birthday John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office 1927 Birthday 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 Birthday Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP 1925 Death Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies 1925 Death George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 1924 Birthday Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA 1924 Event 1st foreign language course broadcast on U.S. radio (WJZ, New York City) 1923 Event U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition 1922 Event Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service 1922 Death Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 1922 Birthday Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs 1921 Birthday Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister, KVP 1920 Birthday Don Cook, foreign Correspondent 1920 Event Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs 1919 Birthday Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president 1918 Event Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) 1918 Death Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies 1916 Event Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov 1914 Death Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73 1913 Birthday Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian jurist/foreign minister 1912 Death Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 1912 Event 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City 1912 Death Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57 1911 Birthday Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78 1911 Birthday Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general, NATO 1911 Birthday Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister 1911 Birthday Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress, Assignment Foreign Legion 1909 Birthday Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68 1908 Birthday Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister, Linggadjati 1906 Event Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama) 1906 Event English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1905 Event French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request 1905 Birthday Jan H van Roijen, diplomat and Netherland foreign minister 1904 Death Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies 1904 Death Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies 1904 Birthday Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister 1902 Birthday Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs 1902 Death Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies 1900 Birthday Edward R. Stettinius, U.S., foreign minister, 1944 - 1945, diplomat 1899 Event U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 1897 Birthday Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO 1894 Birthday Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs, 1939-46, diplomat 1894 Death Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 1894 Birthday Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent 1893 Birthday Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fuhrer/foreign minister 1893 Birthday Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52 1893 Death James G Blaine, U.S. minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62 1892 Birthday Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39 1891 Birthday Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs 1891 Birthday Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47 1890 Death Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74 1890 Death Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 1890 Birthday Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN 1889 Birthday Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs 1885 Birthday Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940 1883 Birthday Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/Foreign Minister/UN-ambassador 1881 Event 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany 1881 Birthday Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1877 Birthday Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-.. 1874 Birthday Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-27 1872 Birthday Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min, 1916-18 1872 Birthday Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister 1872 Birthday Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister 1872 Birthday Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister 1868 Death Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies 1867 Birthday Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant 1867 Event Tokyo opens for foreign trade 1866 Birthday John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, 1913-18 1865 Death Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1864 Event 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country 1863 Birthday Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925 1862 Birthday Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs 1861 Death George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76 1861 Birthday Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16 1860 Birthday Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister, 1908-13 1860 Birthday Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20 1857 Event Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S. 1854 Birthday Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs 1852 Death Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 1852 Birthday Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister 1852 Birthday Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister, 1918 1846 Birthday Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1845 Death Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 69 1845 Event Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery 1843 Birthday Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs 1841 Birthday Bert van Tienhoven, mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister 1841 Birthday Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister 1837 Death Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 1836 Birthday Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27 1835 Event 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms 1834 Death Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 1830 Birthday James G Blaine, U.S., minister of foreign affairs 1827 Death George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1825 Event Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out 1821 Birthday Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat 1816 Birthday Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs 1816 Birthday Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Minister Foreign Affairs, 1852-53 1812 Event U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) 1810 Birthday Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son 1809 Death Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies 1807 Event George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1802 Birthday [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgian Minister of Foreign affairs, 1831 1797 Birthday Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs 1794 Event Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces 1794 Event Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers 1789 Event Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State 1789 Event Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department 1784 Birthday Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1784 Death Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1780 Birthday Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs 1778 Event "Stars and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France) 1776 Birthday Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs 1770 Birthday Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs 1764 Birthday Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1762 Birthday Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs 1754 Death Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1750 Birthday Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister 1724 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs 1675 Event Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut 1647 Birthday Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs 1616 Event Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War 1570 Event King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students 1550 Event William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1487 Event Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer
