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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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