2013 Event Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2013 Event Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announces he will leave his post at the end of March, 2013 2012 Event Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution 2012 Event NASA's second Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft is in orbit around the moon 2011 Event The trial of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarek and sons, Alaa and Gamall is adjourned and merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly 2011 Event The Israeli interior ministry grants its final approval for building 1,600 settler homes in the disputed East Jerusalem 2010 Event Ukranian prosecutors claim that in 2000, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze 1996 Death Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71 1991 Death Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide 1987 Death William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons New York City), dies at 80 1980 Event President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) 1975 Event U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species 1955 Birthday Ken Salazar, born in Denver, Colorado, politician, Democrat, 50th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator from Colorado 2005 - 2009 1953 Event Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested 1951 Birthday Dirk Kempthorne, born in San Diego, California, U.S. Secretary of the Interior 2006 - 2009, U.S. Senator from Idaho 1999 - 2006 1948 Birthday Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior, D66, 1994- 1943 Birthday Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior, VVD, 1994- 1939 Birthday Nicholas Haslam, interior designer 1939 Birthday David Mlinaric, British interior director 1938 Birthday Bruce Babbitt, Gov-D-AL, secretary of interior 1938 Birthday James G Watt, born in Colorado, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1981 - 1983 1935 Birthday Donald P Hodel, Portland, Oregon, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1985 - 1989 1931 Birthday Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior 1930 Birthday Dieuwke Y W de Graaff-Nauta, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior 1929 Event Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe 1928 Birthday Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior, CDA 1925 Birthday Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer 1923 Event Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA 1920 Birthday Stewart L Udall, St. Johns Ariz, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1961 - 1969 1919 Birthday Wally Hickel, bron in Ellinwood, Kansas, Alaska Governor 1966 - 1969, Republican, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1969 - 1971 1918 Birthday Willem J "Molly" Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister 1916 Event Department of Interior forms National Park Service 1914 Birthday Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968 - 1975 1906 Birthday William C Pahlmann, interior decorator, 4 Season restaurant, New York City 1902 Death Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1902 Death Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at 66 1879 Event U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1849 Event Home Department (Interior Department), forms 1849 Event U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress 1838 Birthday Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies 1835 Birthday Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior 1822 Death Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71 1820 Birthday James Harlan, Rep-Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1865 - 1866 1813 Birthday Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa Governor, U.S. Secretary of Interior 1881 - 1882 1751 Birthday Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP and secretary of Interior
