2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
1995 Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union
1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50
1992 "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per
1992 Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies
1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1990 President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1987 President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
1984 Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes
1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1981 John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon
1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1978 "Act" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 233 performances
1977 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 233 performances
1976 Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act
1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros)
1963 John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"
1963 Equal Pay Act enacted
1962 Giulla Boschi, Italian actress, Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus
1962 John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act
1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Kathy Najimy, actress, Sister Act, Veronica's Closet
1957 Jenifer Lewis, actress, Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1956 Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1955 Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God
1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1954 Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1952 Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 National Security Act establishes CIA
1947 President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1947 President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1947 House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act
1941 U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 U.S. passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1937 U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality
1936 Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents
1935 Social Security Act becomes law
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act
1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1934 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act
1934 U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1933 Federal Securities Act signed
1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
1933 U.S. Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
1932 1st U.S. state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
1931 Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in England
1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier
1928 George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act, Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals
1928 U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
1926 Air Commerce Act passes
1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1925 Geraldine Brooks, New York City, actr, Faraday and Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1924 Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians
1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1919 U.S. Congress sign Volstead Act
1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1917 U.S. passes Selective Service act
1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted
1916 Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1916 U.S. Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 Mary Wickes, character actress, Sister Act
1916 National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1916 U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)
1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act
1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business
1906 Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
1905 Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City
1904 Moss Hart, born in Bronx, New York, playwright, You Can't Take it With You, Act 1
1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1898 Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1897 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher, Goethe/Brecht
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1893 Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act
1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador
1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
1887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)
1884 U.S. Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1882 Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories
1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
1867 Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1863 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union
1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1859 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet, Act of Simple Justice
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1842 U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1829 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
1802 Congress passes an act calling for a U.S. Capitol library
1798 Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government
1798 U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1792 U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed
1792 Congress passes President Succession Act
1791 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)
1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1789 Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1789 U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
1789 1st U.S. tariff act
1789 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1784 English parliament accept India Act
1774 English parliament accepts Quebec Act
1774 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1773 British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
1770 George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1768 Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1766 Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1766 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties
1765 Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
1765 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1754 Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
1749 British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization
1748 English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
1679 Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
1673 English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1663 English parliament accepts Staple Act
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1661 Corporation Act enforced in England
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1651 English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1641 English king Charles I accept Triennial Act
1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1549 England enforces Act of Supremacy
1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
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