2015 Event Cuban President Raul Castro meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican as a gesture of gratitude for the pontiff's role in facilitating renewed diplomatic ties between Cuba the U.S.; Pope Francis will visit both countries in September 2015 Event Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi meets with U.S. President Barack Obama, focusing on the fight against ISIS militants; Obama agrees to send humanitarian aid but makes no commitment regarding military supplies or assistance 2014 Event U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Central American leaders, asking their assistance in curbing the flood of children attempting to immigrate; Obama asserted that children without proper documentation would be returned to their home countries 2014 Event Toyota is seeking to sell fuel-cell vehicles in the U.S. but must receive an exemption from certain safety requirements to do so; Toyota states that its car meets safety requirements through a different mechanism than that specified in the rules 2014 Event World leaders gather in France to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day; Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and others concerning the need to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine 2014 Event President Obama meets with Ukrainian acting Prime Minster Yatsenyuk and vows to 'stand with Ukraine' in its conflict with Russia 2014 Event President Obama meets with the Dalai Lama for the third time despite protests from China and warnings that the meeting could threaten diplomatic relations 2013 Event Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Bucharest, Romania. The Premier will attend the China-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) leaders' meeting as a guest of the Prime Minister 2012 Event The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China 2012 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour 2011 Event On his visit to the United Kingdom, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh 2010 Event President Obama meets with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and promises Palestinians $400 million in U.S. assistance for the West Bank and Gaza 2010 Event President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit 2009 Event The C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group meets for the third time in Seoul 1997 Event Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray 1995 Event Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns 1991 Event Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants 1991 Event U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam 1990 Event President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid 1990 Event U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister 1990 Event South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C. 1989 Event U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican 1989 Event Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling 1989 Event New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II 1988 Event Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Event Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens 1988 Death Ballard Berkeley, actor (East meets West), dies at 83 1987 Event 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar 1987 Event U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo 1986 Event King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres 1986 Event Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India 1983 Event Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1982 Event President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth 1981 Birthday Danielle Christine Fishel, Mesa, Arizona, actress, Topanga-Boy Meets World 1980 Birthday Rider Strong, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Shawn Hunter-Boy Meets World 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Event President Carter meets with 15 record company executives 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1976 Birthday Will Friedle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love 1973 Event Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 1972 Event President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1971 Event West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev 1971 Event John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan 1969 Death Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65 1967 Event Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman 1966 Event John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery 1965 Event Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain 1964 Event Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene" 1964 Event Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd 1962 Event John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1959 Event Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts 1957 Event Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney 1956 Event 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) 1953 Event Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov 1952 Event 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow 1952 Event Stalin meets Chou Enlai 1949 Event North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time 1946 Event U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1944 Event Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann 1944 Event Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons 1944 Event Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler 1944 Event Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski 1944 Event Baseball meets in New York City to discuss postwar action 1943 Event French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris 1942 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1940 Event Hitler meets Marshal Petain 1940 Event Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks 1939 Event Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews 1939 Event Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip 1937 Birthday Ron Carter, jazz bassist, Ron Carter Meets Bach 1935 Event Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" 1927 Event 4th Pan-African Congress meets (New York City) 1921 Event 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels and Paris) 1920 Event Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara 1916 Event T. E. Lawrence meets with Fasal Hoessein 1914 Event Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army 1913 Event Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra 1906 Event Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time 1903 Birthday Rex Evans, actor, Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker 1900 Event Pan-African Congress meets in London 1899 Birthday Lucie Mannheim, born in Berlin, actress, East Meets West, 39 Steps 1897 Event Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1891 Birthday Harry Seymour, New York, actor, Boy Meets Girl, Tenderfoot 1889 Event Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood 1883 Event National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky 1882 Event Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley 1882 Event 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1878 Event Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization 1872 Event Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia 1872 Event 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans 1870 Event Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 1869 Event National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C. 1868 Birthday Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road 1868 Event Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin 1868 Event Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant 1868 Event Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee 1868 Event North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh 1868 Event South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority 1868 Event Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock 1868 Event Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson 1864 Event National black convention meets (Syracuse New York) 1861 Event Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy 1858 Event Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour 1854 Event National emigration convention meets in Cleveland 1853 Event National Black convention meets, Rochester New York 1848 Event National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) 1843 Event National black convention meets (Buffalo New York) 1833 Event Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage 1833 Event 4th national black convention meets in Philadelphia 1832 Event 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia 1831 Event Charles Darwin meets with Captain Fitzroy at Plymouth 1825 Event Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon 1792 Event Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC 1790 Event Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary U.S. capital 1763 Event Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk 1688 Event General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III 1681 Event 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London 1679 Event Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig 1660 Event Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II 1376 Event English "Good Parliament" meets
