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2009 U.S. Commerce Department imposes high anti-dumping tariffs up to 99% on imports of Chinese tubular goods
1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71 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 Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88 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 National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense 1948 U.S. 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 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 1927 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 Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul 1923 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 Bernard Kalb, spokesman, State Department, actor, Dave 1918 U.S. 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 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 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 U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel 1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department 1864 Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball 1864 General 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 U.S. 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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