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1998 President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference 1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain 1991 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain 1991 Big East Football conference forms 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris 1987 R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference 1980 LBV Conference Center and Club Lake Villas open 1980 University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1977 Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference 1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors 1972 U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm 1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference 1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference 1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France 1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade 1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy) 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms 1956 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy 1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends 1955 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens 1955 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC 1955 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva 1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) 1953 NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends 1952 Neth-Indonesian Unity conference 1951 President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens 1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) 1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill 1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting 1945 45 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in SF 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference 1945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference 1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin 1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank 1944 Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh 1943 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu 1943 Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin) 1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow 1943 Trident conference in Washington D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan) 1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg 1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews 1942 Allied Conference for war trials 1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration 1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference 1938 K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India 1938 Kathleen Richardson, president, Methodist Conference 1937 Dave Gavitt, formed Basketball's Big East Conference, 1979 1937 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens 1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails 1933 Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries 1933 1st interstate legislative conference in U.S. opens, Washington, D.C. 1932 Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries 1931 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform 1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens 1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage 1925 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin 1924 Conference about German recovery payments opens in London 1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London 1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments 1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments 1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week 1919 President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa 1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) 1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland 1914 Postdam Conference ended 1914 Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg) 1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) 1910 2nd NAACP conference (New York City) 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) 1909 National Conference on the Negro is held 1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference 1906 SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy 1906 Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco) 1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference 1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf 1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington D.C.) 1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.) 1884 Colonization of Africa orgainized at International conference in Berlin 1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse 1845 Isabel Barrows, U.S., editor/penologist, Conference on Negro Question 1568 Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart

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