2015 Event Parts of the U.S. Patriot Act, including authorization of bulk phone data collection by the National Security Administration, expire due to lack of agreement in the Senate regarding extension 2015 Event In response to terrorist dangers such as the January shootings at French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', the French National Assembly passes a law to expand the government's surveillance powers; critics warn that the act will violate civil liberties 2014 Event The U.N. issues a report concluding that immediate global actions are needed to prevent runaway impacts of climate change; the report claims failure to act now will result in extensive future damage which will be prohibitively expensive to control 2014 Event Wal Mart announces that, due to the Affordable Care Act, it will increase health benefit costs for all employees and end health benefits for its 30,000 or so workers with fewer than 30 hours per week; the changes will take place in January 2015 2014 Event India has officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade; K. Chandrasekhara Rao will serve as Telangana prime minister 2014 Event The U.S. Supreme Court rules that whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act extends to private employees working for public companies under contract 2013 Event To avoid Obamacare penalties, today is the last day consumers in the U.S. can sign up for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2013 Event Republican Representative Ted Cruz urged grass-roots activists join him in the fight to defund The Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare 2013 Event U.S. Republicans unveil a series of bills designed to prevent government abuse, including the 'STOP IRS Act,' which would allow IRS employees to be fired when they take actions for political purposes 2013 Event A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voting rights, is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that Congress has not taken into account the nation's racial progress when singling out certain states for federal oversight 2012 Event The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III 2012 Event A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act 2011 Event President Barack Obama's Jobs Act fails to receive the sixty votes required to advance from the U.S. Senate 2011 Event President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 2011 Event A Border Collie has reportedly learned 1022 words and can act in accordance with the citation of those words 2010 Event U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2010 Event Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem 2010 Event The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives 2008 Death Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act, dies 2004 Event President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director 1998 Event Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer 1995 Death Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79 1995 Event Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union 1993 Death Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50 1992 Event "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per 1992 Death Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies 1992 Event Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect 1990 Event President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 1990 Event President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act 1989 Event South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act 1987 Event President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress 1986 Event European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade 1984 Event Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes 1983 Event 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act 1983 Death Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72 1982 Event Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended 1982 Event Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) 1982 Event Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote 1982 Event Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act 1981 Event John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon 1980 Event Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women 1978 Event "Act" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 233 performances 1977 Event "Act" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 233 performances 1976 Event Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act 1975 Event Congress passes Metric Conversion Act 1974 Event Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto 1974 Event Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act 1974 Event Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor 1973 Event President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law 1972 Event President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports 1968 Event Truth in Lending Act signed into law 1968 Event President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1967 Event Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour 1967 Event Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act 1966 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act 1966 Event Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Event Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights 1965 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 1964 Event Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 1964 Event President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act 1964 Event President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 1964 Event Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 Event Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 1963 Event Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros) 1963 Event John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act" 1963 Event Equal Pay Act enacted 1962 Birthday Giulla Boschi, Italian actress, Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus 1962 Event John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act 1962 Event 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit 1960 Event President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1959 Birthday Hugh Laurie, born in Oxford, England, James Hugh Calum Laurie, actor, writer, musician, comedian, comedy partner, Stephen Fry, known for the Fry and Laurie double act, appears in successful Fox television drama House, playing role of Dr. Gregory House 1958 Event National Defense Education Act was signed 1958 Event President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 1957 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 Birthday Kathy Najimy, actress, Sister Act, Veronica's Closet 1957 Birthday Jenifer Lewis, actress, Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act 1956 Event Federal interstate highway system act signed 1956 Event Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage" 1955 Birthday Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God 1955 Event 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum 1954 Event Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53 1954 Event Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed 1954 Event Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party 1954 Event Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act) 1954 Event Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands 1953 Birthday Russ Feingold, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S Senator from Wisconsin, co-sponsor, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, initially, the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act 1952 Event Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted 1950 Event Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) 1950 Event South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" 1950 Event South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races 1949 Event President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1949 Event Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes 1948 Event Britain's National Health Service Act begins 1948 Event Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe 1947 Event National Security Act, passes 1947 Event National Security Act establishes CIA 1947 Event President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act 1947 Event Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress 1947 Event President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act 1947 Event House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act 1947 Event Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions 1944 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1941 Event U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act 1940 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 1940 Event U.S. passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register 1939 Event Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 1938 Event Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy 1937 Event U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act 1937 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality 1936 Event Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act 1936 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act 1935 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents 1935 Event Social Security Act becomes law 1935 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act 1935 Event Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions 1934 Event Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act 1934 Event U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act 1934 Event Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act 1933 Event National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down 1933 Event Federal Securities Act signed 1933 Event Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams 1933 Event Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers 1933 Event U.S. Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition 1932 Event 1st U.S. state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin) 1931 Event Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in England 1929 Event Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier 1928 Birthday George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act, Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals 1928 Event U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act 1926 Event Air Commerce Act passes 1926 Birthday Martin Peake, born in England, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act 1926 Event Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes 1926 Event Railway Labor Act became law 1925 Birthday Geraldine Brooks, New York City, actress, Faraday and Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder 1925 Event Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 1924 Event Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians 1921 Event President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes 1920 Event King George V signs Home Rule Act 1919 Event Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) 1919 Event Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto 1919 Event U.S. Congress sign Volstead Act 1919 Event American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress 1919 Event Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 1919 Event Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act 1918 Event Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence 1917 Event U.S. passes Selective Service act 1917 Event Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted 1916 Event Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress 1916 Event Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) 1916 Event U.S. Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence 1916 Event Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act 1916 Birthday Mary Wickes, character actress, Sister Act 1916 Event National Defense Act establishes ROTC 1916 Event U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act 1916 Event Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) 1914 Event Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights) 1914 Event Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent 1913 Event President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law 1912 Event Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect 1912 Event British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect 1911 Event Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords 1911 Event Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act 1910 Event Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) 1910 Event Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent 1908 Event Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System 1908 Event Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act 1906 Event Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted 1906 Event Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business 1906 Birthday Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act 1905 Birthday Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City 1904 Birthday Moss Hart, born in Bronx, New York, playwright, You Can't Take it With You, Act 1 1901 Event Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent 1898 Event Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry 1897 Birthday Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher, Goethe/Brecht 1894 Event Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court 1894 Event Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks 1893 Event Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 1893 Event Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act 1893 Event Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) 1893 Event Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador 1890 Event Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act 1889 Birthday Robert Taft, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Senator-R-Ohio 1939 - 1953, Taft-Hartley Act 1887 Event Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship) 1887 Event Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads 1887 Event To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act 1886 Event 1st Civil Rights Act passes 1885 Event Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government) 1884 Event U.S. Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act 1883 Event Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1883 Event Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system 1882 Event Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration 1882 Event Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories 1879 Event Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act 1877 Event 1st human cannonball act performed in London 1875 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1872 Event Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1872 Event Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act 1871 Event 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) 1871 Event 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections 1870 Event Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1870 Event California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible 1867 Event Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1867 Event British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes 1867 Event Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto 1867 Event Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act 1863 Event Lincoln signs National Currency Act 1863 Event 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr 1862 Event President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 Event Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land 1862 Event Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges 1862 Event Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West 1861 Event 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC 1859 Event Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name 1859 Birthday Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet, Act of Simple Justice 1858 Event Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1857 Event England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system 1854 Event Congress passes Confiscation Act 1849 Event Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin 1842 Event U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress 1840 Event Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1829 Event English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics 1815 Event 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation 1809 Event Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed 1807 Event Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France 1802 Event Congress passes an act calling for a U.S. Capitol library 1798 Event Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress 1798 Event Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government 1798 Event U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens 1794 Event Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers 1792 Event U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed 1792 Event Congress passes President Succession Act 1791 Event 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages) 1790 Event Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency 1789 Event Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court 1789 Event U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act 1789 Event U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 1789 Event 1st U.S. tariff act 1789 Event 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) 1784 Event English parliament accept India Act 1774 Event English parliament accepts Quebec Act 1774 Event England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes 1774 Event Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 1773 Event British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) 1770 Death George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58 1768 Event Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes 1767 Event British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America 1766 Event Britain repeals the Stamp Act 1766 Event Britain repeals Stamp Act 1766 Event Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia 1765 Event Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies 1765 Event Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties 1765 Event Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York 1765 Event Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" 1765 Event Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1765 Event Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists 1754 Death Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57 1749 Event British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization 1748 Event English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US 1733 Event England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions 1707 Event English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1701 Event Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover 1694 Event Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament 1690 Event England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II 1679 Event Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act 1679 Event Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK 1673 Event English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions 1664 Event 1st naturalization act in American colonies 1663 Event English parliament accepts Staple Act 1662 Event Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer 1662 Event Uniformity Act of England goes into effect 1661 Event Corporation Act enforced in England 1661 Event Parliament confirms Navigation Act 1651 Event English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off 1649 Event Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship 1641 Event English king Charles I accept Triennial Act 1640 Event English Upper house accept Act of Attainder 1549 Event England enforces Act of Supremacy 1534 Event English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1534 Event English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
