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2009 At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed

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

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

1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies

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 Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident

1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81

1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84

1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65

1995 Les Aspin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1995, dies of stroke at 56

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 - 1969, dies at 85

1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67

1993 Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77

1993 Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense

1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies

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

1991 Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state

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 - 1966, 1968 - 1970, dies

1989 Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies

1989 Senate rejects George H. W. 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 - 1953, 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 L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1956 - 1958, dies at 86

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

1984 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69

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

1982 Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George 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 Housing and Urban Development

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

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

1975 Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Secretary of U.S. Olympics 1945 - 1965, dies at 75

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 Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007

1961 William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales

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

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

1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party

1958 Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1956 Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch assistant secretary of Social Affairs, VVD

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

1955 Tony Snow, born in Kentucky, political commentator, columnist, radio, television news anchor, White House Press Secretary

1955 John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence

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 John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War

1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

1953 Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State

1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary

1952 Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East

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 Anthony Nelson, British Secretary of Treasury

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 John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State

1946 Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Clinton

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

1946 Clare Short, born in Birmingham, England, politician, left wing, Secretary of State for Internal Development, supports legislating cannabis, critical of Israel

1946 Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service

1945 Tom Ridge, born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Pennsylvania 1983 - 1995, Governor Pennsylvania 1995 - 2001, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security

1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG

1943 Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000

1943 William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985 - 1988, 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 Michiel Patijn, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State of Foreign affairs, 1994-

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

1942 David Hunt, Wales Secretary of State

1942 Dick K J Tommel, chemist, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State, 1994-

1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987 - 1989

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

1941 Dick Cheney, born in Lincoln Nebraska, Representative-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1989, George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, 1989 - 1993, vice president 2001 - 2009

1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history

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 - 1993

1939 Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary

1939 John Sununu, U.S. Secretary of State, R, 1989 - 1991

1939 Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, Nixon

1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives

1939 Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary

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

1938 Les Aspin, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1994

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

1938 William J Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985 - 1988

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

1938 James G Watt, born in Colorado, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1981 - 1983

1938 Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist, actor, Assistant Secretary of Justice

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

1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1983 - 1987

1935 Jack Kemp, born in Los Angeles, California, Representative-R-New York 1971 - 1989, U.S. Secretary of Housing, 1989 - 1993

1935 Norman Ralph Augustine, American businessman and Under Secretary of the Army 1975 - 1977

1935 Donald P Hodel, Portland, Oregon, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1985 - 1989

1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary, Jimmy Carter

1935 John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981 - 1986

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

1934 Roger Nicholas Edwards, born in England, born Roger Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell, Baron Crickhowell, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, Secretary of State for Wales

1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993

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

1932 Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer and Dutch Secretary of State1866 - 1888, dies at 79

1932 John Nott, born in Bideford, Devon, Sir John William Frederic Nott, Conservative Party, served as Secretary of State for Defense 1981 - 1983, was Member of Parliament for St. Ives in Cornwall 1966 - 1983

1931 Norman Mineta, born in San Jose, California, Representative-R-California 1975 - 1995, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 2000 - 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation 2001 - 2006

1931 Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office

1931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary

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

1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991

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 - 1987

1930 Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser and Secretary of Defense, 1987 - 1989

1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism

1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary

1930 James Baker III, Houston, Secretary of Treasury, 1985 - 1988, Secretary of State, 1989 - 1992

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 - 1993

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

1929 Ho Dam, North Korean Secretary of State, 1970 - 1983

1929 James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1973 - 1975

1928 John Keith Wright, English economist and Assistant Secretary of State, 1971 - 1984

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 Ruth Mompati, South Africa secretary of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu

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, Pennsylvania, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981 - 1982, General

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 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973

1922 Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1981 - 1987

1922 Melvin R. Laird, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-R-Michigan 1953 - 1969, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1969 - 1973

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 - 1989

1920 Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973

1920 Stewart L Udall, St. Johns Ariz, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1961 - 1969

1919 Walter J. Hickel, Gov-R-Alaska, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1969 - 1971

1919 Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment, prohibition

1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer and U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1981 - 1985

1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt

1918 Orville Freeman, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Governor-D-Minnesota 1955 - 1961, Secretary of Agriculture, 1961 - 1969

1918 Otis R Bowen, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1985 - 1989

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

1917 Casper Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987

1917 Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State, 1977 - 1980

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

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

1916 Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, head World Bank

1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

1914 Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968 - 1975

1914 Sidney George Gray, company secretary

1914 Stewart Griffith, secretary, MCC

1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary

1914 Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust

1914 Edmund Muskie, born in Rumford, Maine, Governor of Maine 1955 - 1959, Senator-D-Maine 1959 - 1980, U.S. Secretary of State 1980 - 1981

1913 William P. Rogers, born in Norfolk, New York, U.S. Secretary of State, 1969 - 1973

1912 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950 - 1953

1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary

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

1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

1909 C. Dillon Douglas, born in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961 - 1965

1909 Earl Butz, born in Indiana, served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations

1909 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961 - 1969

1908 John Volpe, Gov-Mass, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969 - 1973

1908 Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972

1907 Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee

1907 George W. Romney, Gov-R-Michigan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1969 - 1973

1906 Clark M. Clifford, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968 - 1969

1906 Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964 - 1982

1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce

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

1901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ U.S. Secretary of HEW, 1956 - 1958

1900 Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Springfield Ohio, Secretary of U.S. Olympics, 1945 - 1965

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

1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man

1894 Nikita Khrushchev, born in Kalinovka, Russia, 1st secretary U.S.S.R., 1953 - 1964

1893 Dean Acheson, statesman and U.S. Secretary of State, 1949 - 1953

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

1891 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1934 - 1945

1890 Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957

1888 John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1953 - 1959

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 - 1938

1871 Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933 - 1944, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55

1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

1867 Jose de Diego, Puerto Rico, patriot and Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice

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

1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925

1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns

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

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

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

1855 Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of Treasury

1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle

1845 Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, 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

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

1821 Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy

1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union

1820 James Harlan, Rep-Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1865 - 1866

1819 Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy

1817 John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State

1816 John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union

1815 James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy

1814 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865

1811 John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secretary State, Confederacy

1810 Walter White, secretary, NAACP

1809 Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secretary State, Confederacy

1808 Hugh McCulloch, U.S. Secretary of Treasury

1808 Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union

1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy

1806 William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union

1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy

1802 Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union

1801 William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 1861 - 1869, buys Alaska at 2 cents per acre

1799 Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union

1796 John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, U.S. Secretary of State, 1849 - 1850

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 Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;

1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury

1784 John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State

1784 George HG earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State

1755 Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State

1755 Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st U.S. Secretary of Treasury, face is on the $10 bill

1751 Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP and secretary of Interior

1736 Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent and secretary of State 1787 - 1795

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

1618 Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States 1588 - 1618, suicide at 68

1611 Antonio Perez, secretary of Spanish king Philip II and rebel, dies at 71

1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail

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

1578 Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered

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

1550 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's Assistant Secretary of State, dies


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