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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 Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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 television

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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