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2004 Laurance Rockefeller, venture capitalist/philanthropist, founded the American Conservation Association, dies at 94

1997 Baseball's triple A Anerican Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband

1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks

1996 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks and Dunn win

1995 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win

1994 28th Country Music Association Award

1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike

1993 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins

1992 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins

1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1991 25th Country Music Association Award:

1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds

1990 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins

1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

1990 Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher, head of Cambridge Buddhist Association, dies

1990 St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship

1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

1989 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins

1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win

1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike

1987 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William, Jr. wins

1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US

1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US

1986 20th Country Music Association Award:

1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with U.S.

1985 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins

1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)

1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games

1984 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins

1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins

1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg

1981 15th Country Music Association Award:

1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association

1981 Executive Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved

1980 14th Country Music Association Award

1980 Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games

1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio

1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston

1978 12th Country Music Association Award

1977 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins

1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins

1975 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins

1975 Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith

1974 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich

1974 American Boccaccio Association forms

1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness

1973 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins

1973 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner

1972 1st games of World Hockey Association

1972 Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29

1971 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins

1971 World Hockey Association forms

1971 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association

1970 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins

1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule

1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created

1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1968 AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires

1967 United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

1967 L.A. Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs

1967 Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies

1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France

1967 Formation of American Basketball Association is announced

1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association

1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand

1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes

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

1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74

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

1960 Barry McGuigan, born in Clones, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, professional boxer, world featherweight champion, number one featherweight challenger in the World Boxing Association

1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY

1958 Recording Industry Association of American created

1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president

1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing

1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded

1954 Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in New York City

1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association

1949 Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association

1949 Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association

1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights

1946 Canadian Library Association established

1946 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season

1945 Diana Warwick, leader, Association of University Teachers

1944 Bert Greene, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, professional golfer, played for the Professional Golf Association Tour

1943 Russ Giguere, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rock guitarist and vocalist, Association

1943 Gary Alexander, Tennessee, rock vocalist and guitarist, Association

1942 Ted Bluechel, San Pedro California, rock vocalist and drummer, Association

1942 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

1942 Brian Cole, born in Tacoma, Washington, rock vocalist/bassist, Association

1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of U.S. formed in Chicago

1942 Margaret Wright, chief commissioner, Guide Association

1941 Terry Kirkman, Salina, Kansas, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Association

1941 Football Writers Association of America organized

1941 Brendan O'Friel, CEO, Prison Governors Association

1941 Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association

1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California

1940 David Hart, General-Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers

1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Association

1940 R S Burman, CEO, Association of British Chambers of Commerce

1939 Jim Yester, born in Birmingham, Alabama, rock vocalist and guitarist, Association

1939 Hugh Dykes, born in England, served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East, member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the British-German Association

1939 Colin Webb, general manager, Press Association

1938 P. Daubeny, CEO, Electricity Association

1936 Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded

1935 Lord Ichayra, Secretary-General, British Banking Association

1935 Ken Still, born in Tacoma, Washington, golfer, won three Professional Golf Association Tour events, played in the Senior Professional Golf Association Tour

1934 Federal Savings and Loan Association created

1929 Charles Lyon, General-Secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs Association

1927 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title

1926 National Bar Association incorporates

1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association

1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida)

1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)

1923 New York State Golf Association formed

1922 Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes

1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1922 Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association

1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"

1921 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track and field association)

1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron

1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games

1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association

1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)

1919 Lady Ricketts, CEO, National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux

1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (New York City)

1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands

1916 Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association

1916 Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in New York City

1914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City

1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (New York City)

1912 U.S. Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion

1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)

1911 National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria

1911 National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City)

1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

1910 Hazel Hotchkiss wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship

1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms

1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms

1908 Baseball Writers Association, formed

1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms

1907 English Professional Football Player's Association forms

1907 Nathan M. Pusey, born in Iowa, educator, National Association for Social Sciences-1963

1907 1st U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City

1906 R. W. Bonham, founder, International Braille Chess Association

1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of U.S. founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)

1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds

1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates

1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris

1904 American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting

1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming, Michigan

1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans

1903 American Power Boat Association forms

1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Cleveland, Ohio

1902 Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City

1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms

1899 Southern California Golf Association forms

1899 American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress

1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York City

1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms

1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms

1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati

1894 United States Golf Association forms (New York City)

1893 Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game

1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football

1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts

1890 United States Polo Association forms, New York City

1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors

1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa

1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit

1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh

1886 Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles

1884 Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons

1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta

1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association

1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey

1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name

1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms

1880 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York

1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island

1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England

1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter

1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

1879 National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)

1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, New York

1877 American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)

1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes

1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

1875 National Bowling Association organized in New York City

1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City

1872 SF Bar Association organized

1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association

1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City

1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant

1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double

1871 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine

1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized

1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (New York City)

1869 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)

1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms

1868 American Philological Association organized in NY

1866 American Equal Rights Association forms

1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer

1857 American Chess Association formed (New York City)

1857 American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City)

1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York

1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)

1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)

1850 Herbert Baxter Adams, U.S., historian, American Historical Association

1847 American Medical Association organizes in Philadelphia

1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)

1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association

1844 Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London

1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President

1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

1836 London Working Men's Association forms

1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn

1825 American Unitarian Association founded

1818 Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association

1721 Roger Sherman, signer, Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution


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