Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Gareth Evans

Gareth John Evans is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.

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1944

September 5

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917 Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
1367 Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
1590 An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
1661 Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

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The world in 1944

When Gareth arrived

april 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
april 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
april 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
april 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

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Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840 German painter and educator (born 1774) Dave Dryden 1941– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022) Fan Zhongyan 989– Chinese chancellor (died 1052) Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791–1864 German composer and educator (born 1791) Henry Maitland Wilson 1881–1964 English field marshal (born 1881) Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Morris Carnovsky 1897– American actor (died 1992) Otto Bauer 1881–1938 Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1881)

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Al Kooper 1944– American singer-songwriter and producer Al Michaels 1944– American sportscaster Angélica María 1944– American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Anne Robinson 1944– English journalist and game show host António Variações 1944–1984 Portuguese musician (died 1984) Azizan Abdul Razak 1944–2013 Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013) Ban Ki-moon 1944– South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Barry White 1944–2003 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1944) Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)

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