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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 Gen 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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