2013 Event A meeting between Pope Francis and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is held at the Vatican; discussions include Iran's nuclear program among other global affairs 2013 Event Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets 2012 Event Indian actor Shahrukh Khan is detained by the U.S. at a New York airport for 90 minutes, angering S. M. Krishna, India's External Affairs Minister 2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2012 Event A German government plan proposing that a eurozone 'budget commissioner' take control of Greece's economic affairs is leaked 2012 Event The U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, begins a two day tour of Myanmar 2010 Event John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005 1998 Death Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies 1998 Event First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy 1994 Death George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1994 Death Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56 1994 Death Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 1993 Event Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Death Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1993 Event Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 1989 Event Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1988 Event Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1988 Event Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs 1988 Death Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92 1987 Death Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77 1986 Death Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 1983 Birthday Joseph Mazzello, actor, Internal Affairs 1983 Death Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88 1983 Event House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. 1982 Event George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs 1982 Event Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested 1980 Death Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 1979 Event Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns 1977 Death Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 1968 Event British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1966 Death Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 1962 Event John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1962 Event Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow 1958 Death Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Event Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs 1957 Birthday Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1957 Birthday Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1957 Death Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65 1956 Birthday Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch assistant secretary of Social Affairs, VVD 1956 Death Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1956 Birthday Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, 1994- 1955 Death John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87 1954 Birthday Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009 1954 Event Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva 1953 Event GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1950 Birthday Alan Keyes, born in Long Island, New York, politician, Republican party, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for international Organization Affairs 1947 Event British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 1944 Birthday Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs, PvdA 1943 Death Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 1942 Birthday Michiel Patijn, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State of Foreign affairs, 1994- 1940 Event Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable 1940 Death Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54 1938 Birthday Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, CDA 1937 Birthday Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs 1937 Death J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 1937 Death Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91 1936 Birthday Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea 1935 Birthday Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank 1934 Birthday Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs 1932 Birthday Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1931 Birthday Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs 1930 Birthday Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs 1930 Birthday Bryan Magee, born in Hoxton, England, broadcaster, author, politician, presented current affairs television show This Week, made philosophy accessible with his 'Men of Ideas' television series 1930 Birthday Lou A de Graaf, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs, VDA 1929 Birthday Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs, ARP 1929 Birthday Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs 1929 Death Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68 1927 Birthday James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1927 Birthday Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP 1925 Event Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in U.K. 1922 Birthday Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs 1921 Birthday Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs 1916 Event Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov 1911 Birthday Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs 1909 Birthday Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68 1909 Birthday Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1961-67 1906 Event English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1903 Birthday Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia 1902 Birthday Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs 1899 Event U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 1898 Birthday Theophilus E. Donges, South African minister of Internal Affairs 1894 Birthday Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs, 1939-46, diplomat 1894 Death Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 1893 Death James G Blaine, U.S. minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62 1892 Birthday Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39 1891 Birthday Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs 1891 Birthday Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47 1889 Birthday Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs 1884 Birthday Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs, 1940 1881 Birthday Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1877 Birthday Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-.. 1874 Birthday Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-27 1870 Death Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76 1867 Birthday Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta, Ohio, actor, Woman of Affairs, Big Parade 1866 Birthday John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, 1913-18 1865 Death Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1862 Birthday Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs 1861 Death George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76 1861 Birthday Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16 1861 Death Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74 1860 Birthday Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20 1854 Birthday Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs 1852 Death Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 1846 Birthday Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1845 Death Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 69 1843 Birthday Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs 1837 Death Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 1835 Death Willem F Roell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67 1834 Death Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 1830 Birthday James G Blaine, U.S., minister of foreign affairs 1827 Death George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1824 Event Bureau of Indian Affairs established 1824 Event U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1816 Birthday Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs 1816 Birthday Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Minister Foreign Affairs, 1852-53 1807 Event George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1802 Birthday [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgian Minister of Foreign affairs, 1831 1797 Birthday Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs 1793 Birthday Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/Minister of Internal Affairs, 1848-49 1789 Event Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State 1789 Event Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department 1784 Birthday Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1784 Death Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1780 Birthday Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs 1776 Birthday Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs 1770 Birthday Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1762 Birthday Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs 1754 Death Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1724 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs 1647 Birthday Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs 1616 Event Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War 1550 Event William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1503 Event Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
