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2004
President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
1994
Darmstadt creates element 110
1990
Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
1989
MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
1983
NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1974
Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1972
Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1970
Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1968
Chad creates Union of Central African States
1952
9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1946
President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order 9808
1942
Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1938
Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1935
Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1934
Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration
1930
Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1929
U.S. cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1929
Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1927
President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1920
France creates Lebanon
1918
Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1916
Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
1901
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1896
A. A. Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
1894
Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1891
James Naismith creates the game of basketball
1891
Congress creates U.S. Courts of Appeal
1890
Congress creates Weather Bureau
1888
Congress creates Department of Labor
1887
To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1883
Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system
1870
Congress creates Department of Justice
1867
Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington D.C.
1867
U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education
1863
Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1862
Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P. Liddell
1861
U.S. creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah territories
1850
California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1847
New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1834
Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1825
Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
1824
U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1791
New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1789
Congress creates Post Office
1789
Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789
Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service
1782
George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
1782
George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1778
Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1637
Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
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