2014 Event Vladimir Putin visits Crimea today for the first time since annexing the region; the visit coincides with a holiday celebrating the U.S.S.R. victory in the Second World War 2013 Event Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan visits the Yasukuni Shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the shrine commemorates those who died while in the service of the Empire of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, which stored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 2012 Event Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals 2012 Event As German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece, an estimated 25,000 protest in Athens 2012 Event Pope Benedict XVI visits Lebanon 2011 Event Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland's Croke Park in Dublin, where the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920 occurred during the Irish War of Independence 2011 Event Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visits areas devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2010 Event According to Fudan University's survey results, 72.6% of Shanghai residents attended the Shanghai Expo; an average of 2.31 visits per resident 2010 Event Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, visits the Kuril Islands, the subject of a dispute with Japan 2010 Event China's Premier, Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and declares the need for better treatment of the country's migrant workers 1998 Event Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 1996 Event New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel 1995 Event Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House 1994 Event South African President Nelson Mandela visits U.S. 1994 Event Pope John Paul II visits Spain 1993 Event Pope John Paul II visits Mexico 1992 Event Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands 1990 Event George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia 1990 Event Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia 1990 Event Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House 1990 Event Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House 1989 Event South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela 1989 Event Princess Diane of Wales visits New York City 1988 Event Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1987 Event Japan's premier Nakasone visits the U.S. 1986 Event Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C. 1986 Event Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands 1985 Event Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris 1984 Event President Reagan visits China 1983 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1983 Event British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Event Pope John Paul II visits Argentina 1980 Event West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow 1979 Event Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1979 Event Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. 1978 Event Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany 1978 Event Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba 1978 Event Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany 1977 Event Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel 1977 Event Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium 1975 Event U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China 1975 Event Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco 1975 Event Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany 1974 Event Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison 1974 Event U.S. president Nixon visits U.S.S.R. 1973 Event Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France 1973 Event Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S. 1973 Event Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany 1973 Event Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope 1972 Event Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia 1972 Event German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel 1972 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. 1971 Event Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands 1971 Event Henry Kissinger visits China PR 1970 Event Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 1969 Event West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands 1969 Event Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1969 Event President Nixon visits Romania 1969 Event President Nixon visits West-Berlin 1968 Event Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague 1968 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague 1967 Event French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Event King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo 1966 Event Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica 1965 Event Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow 1965 Event East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt 1964 Event East Germany government allows short visits to West Germany 1964 Event Khrushchev visits Egypt 1964 Event Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel 1963 Event U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands 1963 Event Khrushchev visits East-Berlin 1963 Event Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) 1962 Event French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 Event Fidel Castro visits Moscow 1962 Event John F. Kennedy visits SF 1962 Event Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands 1961 Event John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico 1961 Event U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin 1961 Event John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 1959 Event Khrushchev visits Angola 1959 Event Shah of Persia visits Netherlands 1959 Event Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory 1957 Event Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits White House 1957 Event Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia 1957 Event Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S. 1956 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow 1955 Event King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo 1953 Event U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi 1953 Event South African premier Malan visits Netherlands 1952 Event President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war 1951 Event Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan and Eva Peron in Buenos Aires 1950 Event U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops 1948 Event Winston Churchill visits The Hague 1947 Event British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1945 Event Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam 1945 Event Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen 1945 Event Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters 1945 Event British Premier Winston Churchill visits France 1944 Event General Bradley visits Montgomery 1944 Event General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter 1944 Event General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy 1944 Event Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem 1944 Event General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy 1943 Event Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler 1943 Event Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java 1943 Event Hitler visits Field Marshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje 1943 Event German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1942 Event Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" 1942 Event Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab 1942 Event Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine 1941 Event Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1941 Event Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler 1941 Event Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin 1940 Event Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler 1940 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1939 Event Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow 1939 Event British king George VI visits U.S. 1938 Event Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands 1938 Event British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 Event Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden 1937 Event Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement 1937 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State 1937 Event "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class 1932 Event New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA 1927 Event Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco 1927 Event Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour 1922 Event German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich 1914 Event U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven 1910 Event Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam 1907 Event German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam 1905 Event German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger 1904 Event British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa 1903 Event President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco 1902 Event S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht 1901 Event Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Event President McKinley visits San Francisco 1900 Event South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders 1892 Event Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands 1891 Event President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco 1889 Event President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium 1876 Event Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty 1865 Event Pope Pius IX visits Suriname 1835 Event Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile 1833 Event Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina 1832 Event Charles Darwin visits Vurland 1832 Event Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil 1832 Event Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean 1824 Event Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald) 1823 Event Weber visits Beethoven 1811 Event French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht 1665 Event Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow 1660 Event English king Charles II visits Netherlands 1638 Event French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam 1621 Event Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass 1579 Event Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I 1498 Event Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island 1430 Event Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels 1420 Event Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina 1389 Event French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII 1165 Event RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht 368 Event Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen 357 Event Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
