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2006 Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense

1998 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish

1996 Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82

1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84

1994 John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66

1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85

1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State (1961-69), dies at 85

1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense

1992 Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies

1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb

1991 U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam

1990 Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia

1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister

1990 Michael Stewart, U.K. Secretary of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies

1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary

1988 Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia

1988 Frank Pace Jr, U.S. Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76

1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns

1987 Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries

1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing

1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns

1983 1st female secretary of transportation, Elizabeth Dole, sworn-in

1982 Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by Schultz

1980 Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"

1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns

1976 Patricia R. Harris named secretary of HUD

1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

1976 Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army

1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State

1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General

1967 U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary

1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general

1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general of the U.N.

1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56

1961 William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales

1959 John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71

1959 U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns

1956 Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch ass. secretary of Social Affairs, VVD

1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP

1955 Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement

1955 Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society

1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary

1951 Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary, CDA

1950 John F. Dulles becomes advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Acheson

1949 Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged

1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP

1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party

1948 Virginia Bottomley, secretary, Heritage

1948 Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras

1947 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st U.S. secretary of defense

1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines Marshall Plan

1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Secretary of State

1946 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP, Secretary of State for Defense

1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG

1943 William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985-88, /drug tsar

1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary, George Bush

1942 Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies

1942 Dick K J Tommel, chemist/, D66, Dutch Asst Secretary of State, 1994-

1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987-

1941 Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association

1941 Dick Cheney, Rep-R-Wyo, Bush's secretary of defense, 1989-93, vice president

1940 James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt

1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of state, PvdA

1939 Lynn Martin, U.S. secretary of Labor, 1991-93

1939 Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary

1939 John Sununu, U.S. Secretary of State, R, 1989-91

1939 Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, Nixon

1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives

1938 Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72

1938 Bruce Babbitt, Gov-D-AL, secretary of interior

1938 William J Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985-88

1938 U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany

1938 James G Watt, Colo, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1981-83

1938 Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice

1937 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary, Welsh Office

1937 Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State

1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1983-87

1935 Jack Kemp, Rep-R-NY, right-wing/U.S. Secretary of Housing, 1989-93

1935 Donald P Hodel, Portland, Oregon, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1985-89

1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary, Jimmy Carter

1935 John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981-86

1934 Ron Nesson, press secretary, Gerald Ford

1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health

1934 Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury

1934 David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science

1933 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office

1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler

1933 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

1932 Bernard Ingham, press secretary, Margaret Thatcher

1931 Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office

1931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary

1931 Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85

1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye U.S.S.R., Soviet secretary general from 1985-91

1931 J R Stephenson, Lt-colonel/Secretary, MCC

1930 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches

1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

1930 William E Brock, Sen-D, /U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1985-87

1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary

1930 Lou A de Graaf, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs, VDA

1930 James Alan Ferman, secretary, British Board of Film Classification

1930 Nicholas F. Brady, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1988-93

1929 V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice, CDA

1929 Ho Dam, North Korean Secretary of State, 1970-83

1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster and press secretary

1928 Martin Sinnatt, Major-General/secretary, Kennel Club

1926 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in U.K.

1925 Pierre Salinger, newsman, ABC, /press secretary, John Kennedy

1925 Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as U.S. Secretary of State

1924 Alexander Haig, Jr., Bala-Cynwyd,

1924 Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP, Lab, /British defense secretary

1923 Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, Secretary of State

1923 Peter Carey, permanent secretary, DTI

1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973-77, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1973

1922 Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1981-87

1922 Melvin R Laird, Rep-R-Mich, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1969-73

1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference

1920 George P Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-89

1920 Stewart L Udall, St. Johns Ariz, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1961-69

1919 Walter J Hickel, Gov-R-Alaska, /U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1969-71

1919 Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)

1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer/U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1981-85

1917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes

1917 Casper Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1981-87

1917 Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-80

1917 J. A. Mommersteeg, Dutch assistant secretary of Defense, KVP

1917 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70

1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

1914 Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968-75

1914 Sidney George Gray, company secretary

1914 Stewart Griffith, secretary, MCC

1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary

1914 Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Sen-D-Me, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1980

1913 William P. Rogers, born in Norfolk, New York, U.S. Secretary of State, 1969-73

1912 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950-53

1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary

1911 Ferdinand J. Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense, soc dem

1910 Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary, Natl Association of Women

1909 C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961-65

1909 Earl L. Butz, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76, ; a real Butz

1909 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-69

1908 John Volpe, Gov-Mass, /U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969-73

1908 Maurice H. Stans, born in Shakope, Minnesota, Secretary of Commerce, 1969-72

1907 Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee

1907 George W. Romney, Gov-R-Mich, /U.S. Secretary of HUD, 1969-73

1906 Clark M Clifford, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968-69

1906 Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964-82

1904 William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76

1901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ U.S. Secretary of HEW, 1956-58

1896 Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52

1894 Nikita S. Khrushchev, 1st secretary U.S.S.R., 1953-64

1893 Dean Acheson, statesman and U.S. Secretary of State, 1949-53

1892 John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies

1891 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1934-45

1888 John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1953-59

1878 Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary, PTT

1876 Giacomo Antonelli, Secretary of State of Pius IX, dies at 70

1873 Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German Secretary of State, 1932-38

1871 Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933-44, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55

1867 Jose de Diego, Puerto Rico, patriot/PR Secretary of Justice

1864 George Barbier, Philadelphia, actor, Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary

1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925

1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves

1861 Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves

1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925-29, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929

1846 John W. Cromwell, Secretary, American Negro Academy

1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle

1845 Elihu Root, R, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1905-09, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1912

1844 Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1844 Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA

1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union, died in 1881

1822 Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71

1821 Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1896

1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union, died in 1883

1820 James Harlan, Rep-Iowa, /U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1865-66

1819 Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union, died in 1897

1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy, died in 1867

1817 John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State

1816 John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union, died in 1889

1815 James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1880

1814 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861-65

1811 John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1889

1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secretary State, Confederacy, died in 1885

1810 Walter White, secretary, NAACP

1809 Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1877

1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secretary State, Confederacy

1808 Hugh McCulloch, U.S. Secretary of Treasury

1808 Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union, died in 1864

1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy, died in 1876

1806 William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union, died in 1869

1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy, died in 1888

1802 Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union, died in 1878

1801 William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 1861-69, buys Alaska at 2 cents /acre

1799 Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union, died in 1889

1796 John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1849-50

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State

1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State

1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury

1784 John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State (foreign affairs)

1784 George HG earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State

1755 Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State

1751 Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP/secretary of Interior

1736 Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95

1719 Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47

1611 Antonio Perez, secretary of Spanish king Philip II/rebel, dies at ñ71

1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail

1590 Francis Walsingham, English Secretary of State, dies at about 57

1566 David Riccio, Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered



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