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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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