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mission

Office of a government representative accredited to another government. Britain's missions include high commissions headed by British high commissioners in Commonwealth countries and embassies headed by ambassadors in other countries. Reciprocally Commonwealth governments are represented in London by high commissioners and other governments by ambassadors.

In some cases governments maintain permanent missions, in the form of delegations, to international organizations such as the UN or NATO. Consular posts deal with local authorities and are usually not situated in capital cities. A diplomatic mission is always in the capital, but has to cover the whole country. It is normally divided into several sections, the principal ones being the chancery (political section), the commercial section, the information section, and the consular section.

Members of the staff of a mission can comprise a minister, a counsellor, armed services attachés, first, second, and third secretaries, and attachés. They usually spend between two and six years at any one mission.


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24 January 1943

World War II: German General, Friedrich von Paulus, Commander in Chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surrender his position there, but Hitler refuses.

28 January 1997

In South Africa, four police officers, appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, admit to the 1977 killing of Stephen Biko, a leader of the South African 'Black consciousness' movement.

1 February 1943
World War II: The Japanese emperor finally gives permission for the defeated Japanese forces on Guadalcanal Island to withdraw.
4 February 1973
The Vietnam War: The International Commission of Control and Supervision, created by the Paris Peace Accords to supervise the ceasefire between North and South Vietnam, starts work.
5 February 1971
The US Apollo 14 Mission successfully lands on the moon.
21 February 2001

In light of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain, the European Commission bans all British milk, meat and livestock exports.

13 March 1997
Sister Nirmala succeeds Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity in India.
19 March 1916
The first American air combat mission is launched as U.S. planes fly over Mexico in support of troops looking for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
25 March 1994
The last American troops withdraw from Somalia, bringing to a close a largely unsuccessful mission.
14 April 1970
An explosion on board Apollo 13 throws the American space mission into jeopardy. 
16 April 1972
In America, NASA launces the lunar mission, Apollo 16.
29 April 2004
In America, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney testify before a closed session of the 9/11 Commission.
14 May 1804
In America, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
17 May 1792

In America, 24 brokers meet on Wall Street in New York to sign an agreement to fix uniform rates of commission for the sale of stocks and bonds - effectively establishing the city's first stock exchange.

18 May 1969
In America, NASA launches Apollo 10 - its mission is a rehearsal for the Moon landing flight later in the year.
30 May 1971
Launch of the US space probe Mariner 9 on its mission to Mars. It is able to send more than 7,000 pictures of the planet back to Earth.
15 June 2000
The vast majority of British troops sent to Sierra Leone to help restore order in the war torn country finish their mission and head back home.
1 July 2004
Cassini-Huygens, the international mission to Saturn, goes into orbit around the planet beaming back pictures of Saturn’s rings.
4 July 2006
In America, the Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.
5 July 2003
The World Health Organisation announces that all person-to-person transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has ceased.
16 July 1969
In the United States, the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft at the start of its mission to land men on the moon. On board the spacecraft - three US astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
23 July 1982
The International Whaling Commission votes for a total ban on commercial whaling from 1985.
26 July 2005
America launches STS-114, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster.
31 July 1556
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order of Roman Catholic missionaries and educators, dies in Rome, Italy.
1 August 1971
Astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon discover the Genesis rock, an original piece of the lunar crust.
8 August 1942
The Second World War: Six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure are executed for spying.
20 August 1975
NASA launches the spacecraft Viking I in a mission to Mars.
25 August 1945
John Birch, an American missionary to China before the war and a captain in the Army during the war, is killed by Chinese communists days after the surrender of Japan, for no apparent reason.
27 August 1950
The BBC broadcasts from Calais, France in the first ever live transmission from across the Channel.
8 September 1664
The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam is seized by the English and renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, who organised the mission.
9 September 2006
The NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched successfully on mission STS-115 to the International Space Station.
10 September 2000
The British Army rescues 6 of its soldiers who had been kidnapped by the rebel group "West Side Boys." One soldier was killed during the rescue mission.
26 September 2005

In Northern Ireland, General John de Chastelain, the head of the arms decommissioning body, announces that the IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use.

27 September 1964

In America, the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is released. The report concludes that there was no conspiracy behind Kennedy’s death and that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin.

30 September 1954
The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
3 October 1962
America launches the space craft Sigma 7 on the Mercury 8 mission. 
22 October 1968
Apollo 7, the first manned mission in the NASA Apollo program, returns safely to Earth.
23 October 2001
In Northern Ireland, the IRA announces that it has commenced the decommissioning of its weapons.
3 November 1973
NASA launches Mariner 10, an unmanned space mission to fly by the planet Mercury.
8 November 1861
The Trent Affair; Confederate commissioners to Great Britain and France are forced off a British ship by Unionists. They’re released and allowed back on board after strong British protests.
10 November 1871
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone, finally makes contact with him in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in Zanzibar and asks, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
19 November 1969
The American Lunar mission, Apollo 12, becomes the second ever manned mission to land on the surface of the Moon. 
22 November 1977
In America, the world’s first supersonic airliner, Concorde, is given permission to fly into New York’s Kennedy Airport following an agreement over noise levels.
24 November 1969
NASA’s Apollo 12 spacecraft lands in the Pacific Ocean, safely returning from its mission to the Moon.
26 November 1965
France successfully launches the Asterix-1 satellite into space from the Sahara Desert, its first mission into space.
29 November 1963
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 
7 December 1972
The NASA lunar mission, Apollo 13 is launched.
21 December 1968
NASA’s Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
27 December 1968
Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, returns safely to Earth.
3 January 1977

Roy Jenkins MP announces that he is to leave the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.

 

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