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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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