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1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1995 New York City bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more

1992 Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball

1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights

1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members

1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism

1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"

1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF

1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions

1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields

1978 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties

1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

1977 Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant

1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party

1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties

1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"

1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings

1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination

1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa

1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation

1969 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners

1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles

1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa

1967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)

1966 Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene"

1966 South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)

1966 South African government bans Beatle records

1966 South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund

1963 ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965

1963 U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba

1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs

1962 "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools

1961 U.N. bans nuclear arms

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1957 Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers"

1956 Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany

1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)

1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade

1946 U.S. Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan

1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio

1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications

1940 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross

1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals

1938 Germany bans Jews being lawyers

1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians

1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party

1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1933 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers

1933 German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts

1933 Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany

1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists

1924 Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand

1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD

1922 Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life

1920 Yugoslav government bans Communist Party

1920 Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs

1906 Pope Pius X bans Associations cults

1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs

1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808

1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England

1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers

1794 Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries

1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor

1773 Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits

1765 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traite sur la tolerance"

1764 France bans Jesuit enorde

1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut

1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer

1655 English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans

1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics

1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students

1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome

1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism

1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode

1523 Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics

1521 Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam

1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books

1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians

1245 Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time


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