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1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee

1993 Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58

1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror

1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency

1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)

1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)

1984 Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes

1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2

1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1976 Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency

1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency

1975 European Space Agency, ESA, forms

1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr

1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)

1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency

1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1961 U.S. authorizes Agency for International Development

1960 International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence

1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.

1956 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes

1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

1946 US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers

1932 William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency

1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms

1925 U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms

1922 Eileen Ford, modeling agency head, Ford Modeling Agency

1921 U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency

1899 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies

1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture

1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency

1819 Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency



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