2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52
1998 House Judiciary Committee recommends a full impeachment inquiry
1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82
1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee
1991 Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination
1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
1989 Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court
1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1986 U.S. Congress forms Irangate committee
1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1985 John B Kelly Jr, chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1979 International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China
1977 U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1975 Avery Brundage, CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1967 Provo disbands in Netherlands Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1963 ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1961 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1959 U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
1957 NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants
1953 President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates
1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman, 1989-91
1950 International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52
1949 1st U.S. Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order 9808
1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1941 Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn DA, D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1936 Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City
1932 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 Raymond Illingworth, CEO, England committee, TCCB
1931 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1930 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1927 Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman, 1922 Committee
1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee
1925 Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee, 1985-95
1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1921 Paul Daels, president, Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee
1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman, International Olympic Committee
1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1919 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
1919 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman, House of Lords
1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1918 LeRoy Walker, born in Atlanta, Georgia, CEO, US Olympic Committee
1917 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1915 Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1913 Herman Talmadge, Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee
1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1906 Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP
1906 Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1898 Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO, Committee of Watchfulness
1887 Avery Brundage, born in Detroit, Michigan, CEO, International Olympic Committee, 1952-72
1856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized
1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
1843 U.S. and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
1820 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1776 Continental Congress create a committee to draft Decl of Independence
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1772 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
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