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Establishes
1986
NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance
1984
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1983
Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday
1978
EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
1977
President Carter establishes Department of Energy
1977
U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976
Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1976
Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1969
Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1966
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1961
Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1961
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
1957
Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
1953
President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1950
U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1947
National Security Act establishes CIA
1946
President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1946
U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1945
U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea
1944
Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1943
U.S. 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
1943
Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
1942
French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
1942
Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1942
Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1942
Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1941
Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941
PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1940
Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
1936
Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1935
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages
1933
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R.
1929
President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1929
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1926
Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1925
Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
1921
U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1920
League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
1919
Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
1917
Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1916
Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland
1916
Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1916
Postal check and Girodienst establishes
1916
National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1914
U.S. Congress establishes mother's day
1913
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1912
Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1904
Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1904
Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal
1895
Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1893
Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1890
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
1886
Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1885
1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1884
Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women
1881
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
1875
Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
1871
Congress establishes the civil service system
1870
U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service
1866
Fisk University establishes
1864
Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1863
War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1862
Congress establishes U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado
1861
Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1861
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1860
Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1855
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1850
Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1849
Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1829
James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1819
Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
1800
Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
1800
Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1796
Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1793
Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1793
Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1792
U.S. establishes military draft
1792
Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
1791
Congress establishes U.S. Mint
1790
Congress establishes District of Columbia
1789
Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
1787
Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1780
Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1777
Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1776
Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors
1775
2nd Continental Congress formally establishes U.S. Navy
1755
Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
1748
Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1743
Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1682
Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1652
John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
1648
Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1644
Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1627
English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1498
Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1267
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
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