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1997 Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84 1996 John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57 1995 Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa 1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1 1968 Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he will not seek re-election 1968 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT) 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act 1966 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address 1964 In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society" 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president 1959 Harold Baines, born in Easton, Maryland, outfielder for the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers 1947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson 1946 J R Baines, professor, Egyptologist 1944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, Lyndon Baines Johnson's daughter 1938 John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher 1922 William Baines, composer, dies at 23 1912 Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator 1910 Frederick Harry Baines, painter 1899 William Baines, composer

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