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1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created 1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established 1977 Department Of Energy established 1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague 1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi 1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established 1970 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands 1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established 1966 Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established 1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel 1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization 1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park 1959 U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established 1955 West Europe Union established 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established 1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established 1950 U.N. World Meteorological Organization established 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established 1946 4th French republic established 1946 U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1946 Canadian Library Association established 1946 Italian Republic established 1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded 1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established 1945 Foundation 1940-45 established 1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1941 Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1939 Federal Hall National Monument established 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin 1935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) 1935 Georg Katzer, born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, German composer, established electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic 1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established 1934 International Telecommunication Union established 1933 CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District 1933 German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established 1933 Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' 1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium 1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established 1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established 1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood California 1925 David Bache, born in Worcestershire, England, David Ernest Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, established design company David Bache Associates, created the Land Rover, Series II Land Rover 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska 1925 Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) 1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service 1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established 1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established 1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR 1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1920 League of Nations established 1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) 1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) 1919 Belorussian SSR established 1918 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established 1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1912 French protectorate in Morocco established 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam 1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) 1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established 1907 World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army 1905 Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press 1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established 1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1901 Commonwealth of Australia established 1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup 1900 British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established 1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels 1898 City of New York established 1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club) 1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday 1888 English Football League established 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established 1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 1884 Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude 1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established 1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts 1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand 1875 Universal Postal Union established 1874 Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1868 Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame 1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established 1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established 1865 NV Suriname Bank established 1863 Territory of Idaho established 1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1861 Anaheim Post Office established 1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement 1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery 1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute) 1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor 1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school 1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established 1850 Hawaiian post office established 1850 San Francisco County Government established 1849 U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress 1848 2nd republic established in France 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established 1847 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland 1841 Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy 1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established 1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established 1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1814 Netherlands Bank established 1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1802 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) 1801 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established 1800 Washington D.C. established as capital of US 1799 Metric system established in France 1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1794 U.S. Post Office established 1791 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania 1789 U.S. War Department established a regular army 1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress 1789 U.S. Post Office established 1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK 1784 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia 1779 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1778 Catherine McAuley, born in Dublin, Ireland, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children 1773 1st U.S. public museum established (Charlestown SC) 1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established 1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1664 New Jersey established 1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established 1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean 1629 1st commercial fishery established 1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies 1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established 1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain 1404 Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established 1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway 1326 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi 930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established |
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