2015 Event Israeli forces peaceably board and redirect the Swedish Marianne, a ship that was part of Freedom Flotilla III, which sought to enter the Gaza port in violation of Israel's naval blockade; the ship will be taken to the port of Ashdod and inspected 2010 Event Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza 1984 Event International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua 1971 Event President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China 1962 Event U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and U.S. lifts blockade 1962 Event John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis 1962 Event President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1960 Event East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin 1949 Event West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade 1948 Death Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64 1948 Event U.S. denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin 1948 Event Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade 1941 Event Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins 1940 Event Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain 1934 Event 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1915 Event Germany begins a blockade of England 1912 Event Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water 1898 Event U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors 1884 Birthday Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade 1861 Event Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade 1861 Event Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade 1861 Event CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade 1861 Event Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1850 Event British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1800 Event Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1624 Event Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
