2004 Clinton Library opens in Little Rock Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs and 80 million documents
1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library
1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1986 President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta
1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library
1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94
1968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1957 Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1946 Canadian Library Association established
1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1934 Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88
1930 Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
1927 Gwen Watford, British actress, Body in the Library, Ghoul
1924 Gerard Wernars, Dutch graphic designer, Library stamps 1991
1922 Library Ave in Bronx named
1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force
1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1915 David Jenklins, librarian, National Library of Wales
1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1860 Thomas Hastings, born in New York City, architect, New York Public Library
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
1851 US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
1848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
1845 Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library
1833 1st tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire
1821 Mercantile Library of City of New York opens
1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1814 Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for New York Public Library
1803 1st public library opens (Connecticut)
1802 Congress passes an act calling for a U.S. Capitol library
1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1731 In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library
1612 Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies
1600 Gabriel Naude, France, librarian, Mazarin Library
642 Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
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