1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
1995 After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close
1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization
1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
1994 Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1992 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City
1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
1987 U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM
1980 U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
1980 Department of Health and Human Services begins operation
1979 President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
1979 Congress' final approval to create Department of Education
1978 Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1977 Department Of Energy established
1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1975 U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)
1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT)
1965 House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop
1964 San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
1960 San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1953 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established
1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists
1950 NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense
1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury
1947 U.S. Department of Defense forms
1947 Department of Defense forms
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1947 U.S. Department of Army created
1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store
1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in U.S. State Department
1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1938 Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1934 Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health
1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health
1934 David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science
1931 Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport
1929 Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul
1922 Bernard Kalb, spokesman, State Department, /actor, Dave
1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1916 Department of Interior forms National Park Service
1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
1913 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks
1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments
1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1904 Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
1903 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms
1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created
1890 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation
1888 Congress creates Department of Labor
1884 Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44
1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City)
1879 U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
1875 James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney
1872 Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens
1870 Congress creates Department of Justice
1867 U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education
1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies
1866 US Treasury Department authorizes nickel
1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1864 Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1863 War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
1862 Department of Agriculture created
1861 War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
1861 Department of Navy of Confederacy forms
1858 Macy's Department store opens in New York City
1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established
1849 Home Department (Interior Department), forms
1849 US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store
1848 1st department store opens
1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1838 John Wanamaker, merchant, Wanamakers Department Store
1834 Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner, Field Department Store
1824 U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1798 Department of Navy forms
1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport
1789 U.S. War Department established a regular army
1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress
1789 Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service
1789 Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
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