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2013 Event - The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist

2012 Event - A report from the European Commission on the need for increased safety at Europe's 134 power station nuclear reactors will cost 10 to 25 billion euros

2012 Event - A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship

2012 Event - At a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama City, South Korea announces it's plans to begin 'scientific' whaling of minke whales

2012 Event - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission together complete rules to limit which firms are required to register with either or both agencies as 'swap dealers'

2011 Event - In South Korea, the Financial Services Commission reveals they plan to inject more money into suspended local savings banks

2011 Event - A $28 billion merger between Comcast and NBC Universal is approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission

2010 Event - Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission and the Tokyo Stock Exchange conduct an insider trading investigation of Japanese companies

2010 Event - Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns

2010 Event - After five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission, a report stated a reduced figure of 25,000 people died in the 1945 Dresden bombing

1997 Event - Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield

1995 Death - Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies

1994 Death - Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79

1991 Death - Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies

1988 Event - Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws

1988 Death - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies

1987 Event - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1987 Event - Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair

1986 Event - NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission

1986 Event - President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident

1980 Event - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment

1974 Event - Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War

1974 Death - Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78

1968 Event - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks

1967 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence

1967 Event - Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission

1964 Event - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

1963 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy

1962 Event - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission

1958 Event - Los Angeles Coliseum Commission approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility

1957 Event - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART

1954 Event - Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer

1953 Event - Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary

1950 Event - U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

1948 Event - U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights

1948 Birthday - Reed Hundt, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Federal Communications Commission chairman, 1993 - 1997, advisor to McKinsey & Company

1947 Event - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed

1946 Event - President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

1944 Event - Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission

1944 Event - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany

1941 Event - Fair Employment Practices Commission established

1940 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission

1939 Birthday - Leon Britain, vice president, Commission of European Communities

1939 Birthday - Daniel Oliver, born in New York City, CEO, Federal Trade Commission

1938 Birthday - Peter Sanders, CEO, Commission for Racial Equality

1938 Birthday - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1937 Birthday - Jacques Santer, President, European Commission

1936 Event - International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends

1934 Event - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

1934 Event - Securities and Exchange Commission established

1934 Birthday - Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982

1931 Birthday - Sydney Lipworth, CEO, Monopolies and Mergers Commission

1931 Birthday - David Montgomery, chairman, British Forestry Commission

1929 Birthday - June O'Dell, deputy CEO, Equal Opportunities Commission

1929 Birthday - David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security and Exchange Commission

1929 Event - U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

1927 Event - Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone

1927 Event - President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)

1926 Birthday - Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1924 Event - Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

1922 Birthday - David Lane, CEO, Commission for Racial Equality

1920 Birthday - Richard O'Brien, CEO, Manpower Services Commission

1920 Event - NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission

1919 Event - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series

1918 Event - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army

1918 Death - Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies

1915 Event - Federal Trade Commission organizes

1914 Event - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce

1911 Birthday - Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976

1907 Event - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball

1906 Event - NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo

1902 Birthday - Jean Rey, Belgium, President of European Commission, 1967-70

1890 Event - New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton

1885 Event - 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

1871 Event - Meeting of Alabama claims commission

1867 Event - U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson

1861 Event - Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general

1861 Event - U.S. Sanitary Commission is given executive approval

1839 Death - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

1831 Event - John Frazee becomes 1st U.S. sculptor to receive a federal commission

1763 Birthday - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator

1599 Event - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings

1492 Event - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet

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