Mortars had demolished the defense ministry and set fire to the American Embassy next door.

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

As a result, the ability of the Embassy to provide services to American citizens remains extremely limited.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

The Office of the President of Ghana worked closely with the U. S. Embassy in Accra to establish an American Chamber of Commerce to continue to develop closer economic ties in the private sector.

The US Office of Military Cooperation in Kuwait is attached to the American Embassy and manages the FMS program.

The American Embassy in Kabul closed on January 30, 1989.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

* 1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

The agency is under the supervision of the American Embassy in Port Louis, Mauritius.

In mid-1968 there were demonstrations in London against the American involvement in the Vietnam War, centred on the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square.

A statement issued on the embassy's website said: " The US Embassy in Sana ' a is closed today, in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP ) to attack American interests in Yemen ".

It is called " Spain's own Tehran ", similar to the 1979 – 80 Iran American U. S. Embassy Hostages of Americans.

* November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3, 000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U. S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages ( 53 of whom are American ).

* November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U. S. Embassy in Tehran.

It briefly housed the American Embassy during World War II.

Scenes were also filmed at the American Embassy and the Canadian Embassy.

They include the Organization of American States, British High Commission, Mexican Embassy, Embassy of The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ( in Rodney Bay ), Dominican Republic Consulate, French Embassy, Italian Vice Consulate, Jamaican Consulate, Netherlands Consulate, Norwegian Consulate, and Venezuelan Embassy.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

Members of the San Francisco American Friends Service, a Quaker organization, will march to San Francisco for a rally in Union Square at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Also set for appearances at the auditorium this season are: `` American Ballet Theatre '' on Jan. 27, `` Ximenez-Vargas Ballet Espagnol '' on Feb. 2 ; ;

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.

* 1994 – Jacqueline Emerson, American actress and singer ( Devo 2. 0 )

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

Since the Bishop of London refused to ordain ministers in the British American colonies, this constituted an emergency, and as a result, on 2 September 1784, Rev.

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 75 % White, 17. 93 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 2. 97 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 58 % from other races, and 2. 42 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The Pregones Theater, which produces Latin American work, opened a new 130-seat theater in 2005 on Walton Avenue in the South Bronx.

Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises ( SFAE ), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated.

* May 23 – Union troops parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC to celebrate the end of the American Civil War.

Carte travelled to New York in the summer of 1879 and made arrangements with theatre manager John T. Ford to present, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the first authorised American production of Pinafore.

The North American branch was established in 1896 at 91 Fifth Avenue in New York City to facilitate the sale of Oxford Bibles in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege solemnly proceeded along Pennsylvania Avenue in 1865 ; only weeks later the end of the American Civil War was celebrated when the Army of the Potomac paraded more joyously along the avenue.

* In 1855, Steinway exhibited at the American Institute Exhibition in The Crystal Palace at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City.

Some American presidents honored Lincoln's birthday by attending services at the church Lincoln attended, New York Avenue Presbyterian Church by sitting in Lincoln's pew on the Sunday nearest February 12.

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as " the Whitney ", is an art museum with a focus on 20th-and 21st-century American art located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City.

While the native Italian American population has dropped rapidly since the 1980s, the neighborhood still retains an Italian character with many Italian restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square.

The neighborhood also hosts a large Columbus Day / Italian American heritage day parade along Columbus Avenue to Aquatic Park.

Oracle is the gateway to the road up the " back side " of Mount Lemmon, which starts off of American Avenue and currently offers a secondary route to the top.

After the Mexican-American war, California became part of the United States and American settlers arrived in this area and formed the town of Fairview in the 1880s near the modern intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Adams Avenue.

Arden-Arcade's northern border is Interstate 80, its southern border is the American River, its western border is Ethan Way and its eastern border is Mission Avenue.

If approved, the area bounded by Auburn Boulevard on the north, the American River Drive, Ethan Way on the west, and Mission Avenue / Jacob Lane on the east would have become the City of Arden-Arcade.

Broad Avenue in Palisades Park's Koreatown has been characterized as a major epicenter of Korean American life.

The American Planning Association has designated Haddon Avenue here as one of its 10 Great Streets for 2009. The group chose the street, which runs through Collingswood's business district, " for the way it melds the past with the present ".

Large houses were built in the blocks around the Orange Lawn Tennis club, while in other areas, especially south of South Orange Avenue, more modest foursquare houses were put up for the growing American middle class.

The Little Silver Train Station on Sycamore Avenue was designed by the noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and built in 1890.

There are two stations in the Finderne area, the now-closed Finderne off Finderne Avenue and the Bridgewater station on the old American Cyanamid property.