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2006 Smoking is banned in restaurants and bars in Scotland 1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear 1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases 1993 Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City's MTA 1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports 1992 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time 1991 Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement 1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address 1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose 1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse 1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa 1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 1977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa 1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV 1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy 1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies 1962 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands 1943 Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team 1943 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio 1933 Austrian Communist Party banned 1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin 1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years 1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) 1912 AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen 1902 Marian Anderson, born in Philadelphia, operatic contralto, banned by D.A.R. 1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1883 Slavery banned throughout British Empire 1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states 1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

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