1997 Baseball's Exec Council suspends New York Yank owner George Steinbrenner
1995 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64
1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
1992 U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia
1992 U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
1992 Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya
1991 U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1991 U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1991 U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1990 U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1990 U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1990 U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1990 U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq
1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1985 U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1985 Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78
1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
1982 U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1982 U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1982 Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
1981 U.N. Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89
1980 U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1980 U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1977 U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1976 U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1976 U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org
1973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches
1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1971 China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council
1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1970 Jon Lieber, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
1970 U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England)
1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions
1967 U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land
1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1967 Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners
1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1965 U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1964 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1964 African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1963 Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, 'Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1959 Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1958 U.N. Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1958 Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England
1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
1956 Canadian Football Council forms
1955 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59
1954 Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth
1954 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1954 Robert F Kennedy, Jr., attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council
1953 U.N. Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1951 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65
1951 Frank Chikane, sec-gen of South Africa Council of Churches
1950 National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms
1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
1949 Council of Europe forms
1949 Statue of Council of Europe drawn
1949 Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel
1949 U.N. Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia
1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration
1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1947 Luke Rittner, Secretary-General, Arts Council
1946 Belgian Council of State forms
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
1945 Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council
1945 Andrew Stein, President of New York City council, D
1944 Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy
1942 Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1942 Carol Bellamy, Planfield, New Jersey, City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85
1941 New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
1940 British Council receives British Charter
1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940 Barbara Kelly, CEO, Scottish Consumer Council
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City)
1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1935 SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
1933 Earl of Cranbrook, CEO, Nature Conservancy Council
1932 David Plastow, CEO, Medical Research Council
1931 Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council
1931 Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council
1931 Mark Richmond, CEO, Science and Engineering Research Council
1930 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
1930 David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland
1929 Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology
1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
1925 Edward Fursdon, British Maj-Gen, defense council
1925 Colin Spedding, CEO, Council of Science and Technology Institutes
1925 Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, /National Security Council
1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
1923 Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist, Council of Economic Advisers
1922 David Orr, deputy chairman, Inchcape, CEO, British Council, Unilever
1922 Dorothy Irene Height, president, national council of negro women
1921 Philip A. Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
1912 Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany
1912 Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
1912 Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council
1910 Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council
1909 Peter W. Rodino, Rep-D-NJ, 1949-, /chaired Watergate council
1908 Christian GK Baeta, Togolese chairman, International Mission Council
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1907 Paul O'Dwyer, President of City Council, D-NYC
1906 Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. sec-gen of World council of Churches, 1966-72
1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1897 Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
1891 Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council
1888 P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
1887 Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950
1885 Henri Velge, 1st chairman, Belgian Council of State
1884 Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man
1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube
1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
1822 Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97
1818 Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60
1804 Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64
1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
1795 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1784 Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
1740 Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO, Council of 500
1731 Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1716 Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council
1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1673 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council
1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1629 Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1564 Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1562 Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1558 Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
1555 William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
1551 Council of Trente resumes
1550 Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
1545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
1545 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1544 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1511 Council to Pisa opens
1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
1431 Council of Basel opens
1415 Council of Konstanz
1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1409 Council of Pisa closes
1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
1409 Council of Pisa opens
1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1312 Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1311 Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1215 Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
869 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
680 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
454 Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies
451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor
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