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2013 Event - According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities

2013 Event - JPMorgan reveals it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, mostly from its mortgage department, in the next two years

2012 Event - The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation

2012 Event - The U.S. State Department states the U.N. Secretary-General's decision to attend the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement summit is 'strange' and 'not a good signal'

2012 Event - Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer

2012 Event - The U.S. Department of Defense produces new guidelines that remove restrictions on the use of women in combat

2011 Event - An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981

2011 Event - New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest

2011 Event - According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 2010 greenhouse gas levels are higher than a worst case scenario set by climate experts in 2007

2011 Event - The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence

2011 Event - The U.S. Department of Justice admits and defends it has probed WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, dismissing privacy and freedom of speech concerns

2011 Event - The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China

2010 Event - The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research

2009 Event - U.S. Commerce Department imposes high anti-dumping tariffs up to 99% on imports of Chinese tubular goods

1997 Event - U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18

1997 Death - Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71

1995 Event - After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close

1995 Event - New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization

1994 Event - Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House

1994 Event - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces

1993 Event - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79

1993 Event - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years

1992 Event - Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City

1992 Event - Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores

1992 Event - New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores

1989 Death - Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88

1989 Event - Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

1988 Event - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London

1987 Event - U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II

1986 Event - Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money

1982 Event - Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM

1980 Event - U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination

1980 Event - Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1979 Event - President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education

1979 Event - Congress' final approval to create Department of Education

1978 Event - Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female

1977 Event - Department Of Energy established

1977 Event - President Carter establishes Department of Energy

1975 Event - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department

1975 Event - U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1973 Event - Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)

1972 Event - 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)

1969 Event - San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

1968 Event - Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms

1967 Event - At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million

1967 Event - Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)

1966 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT)

1965 Event - House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop

1964 Event - San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated

1962 Event - Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools

1960 Event - San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard

1953 Event - 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois

1953 Event - Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

1953 Event - Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

1950 Event - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists

1950 Event - NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

1949 Event - National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense

1948 Event - U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

1948 Event - Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury

1947 Event - U.S. Department of Defense forms

1947 Event - Department of Defense forms

1947 Event - U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense

1947 Event - U.S. Department of Army created

1944 Event - 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store

1941 Event - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1938 Event - Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university

1934 Event - Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive

1934 Birthday - Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health

1934 Birthday - Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health

1934 Birthday - David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science

1931 Birthday - Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport

1929 Birthday - Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment

1927 Birthday - Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department

1926 Birthday - Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul

1923 Birthday - Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett

1922 Birthday - Bernard Kalb, spokesman, State Department, actor, Dave

1918 Event - U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor

1916 Event - Department of Interior forms National Park Service

1914 Event - U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports

1914 Event - Philips installs research department in Eindhoven

1913 Event - 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks

1913 Event - Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments

1908 Event - Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice

1904 Birthday - Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin

1903 Event - U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms

1901 Birthday - Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet

1901 Event - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce

1893 Event - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture

1891 Event - Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created

1890 Event - 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

1888 Event - Congress creates Department of Labor

1884 Birthday - Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44

1882 Event - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City)

1879 Event - U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior

1875 Birthday - James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney

1872 Event - Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens

1870 Event - Congress creates Department of Justice

1867 Event - U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education

1866 Event - Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies

1866 Event - U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel

1865 Event - Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department

1864 Event - Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball

1864 Event - General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia

1863 Event - War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops

1863 Event - War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops

1862 Event - Department of Agriculture created

1861 Event - War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers

1861 Event - Department of Navy of Confederacy forms

1858 Event - Macy's Department store opens in New York City

1850 Event - Hawaiian Fire Department established

1849 Event - Home Department (Interior Department), forms

1849 Event - U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress

1848 Event - Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store

1848 Event - 1st department store opens

1847 Event - Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps

1838 Birthday - John Wanamaker, merchant, Wanamakers Department Store

1834 Birthday - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner, Field Department Store

1824 Event - U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1798 Event - Department of Navy forms

1796 Event - U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport

1789 Event - U.S. War Department established a regular army

1789 Event - Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department

1789 Event - Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State

1789 Event - U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress

1789 Event - Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service

1789 Event - Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department

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