2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention
2002 Barbara Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 54
2002 Galen Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 61
2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52
2000 Robert Trent Jones, golf course architect, Augusta National Course, dies at 93
1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82
1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks
1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1997 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am
1997 Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
1997 Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am
1996 McGeorge Bundy, U.S. national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77
1996 PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1995 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87
1995 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City)
1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
1994 Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72
1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
1993 Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention
1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1992 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
1991 91st U.S. Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National GC Minn
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
1990 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1990 Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
1990 Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1990 Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress
1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1988 Generoso Pope Jr, National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1988 New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65
1988 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1987 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach
1987 Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women
1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower
1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1986 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1986 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency
1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1986 U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1983 Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
1983 25th Ryder Cup: U.S., 14 -13 at PGA National GC (Fla)
1983 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 1st National Coin Week begins
1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1982 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1982 National railroad strike in Belgium
1982 Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
1982 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1981 Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion
1981 Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Assn
1981 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1980 National Black Independent Party forms
1980 Timothy Goebel, born in Evanston, Illinois, figure skater, 1996 National, Jr. champ
1980 U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1980 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League pres
1980 Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
1980 Aubrie Rippner, born in Los Angeles, California, tennis star, 1995 USTA National Girls 18
1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record)
1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated
1979 Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
1978 Amber Corwin, Harbor City California, figure skater, 1997 National Sr - 5th
1978 Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York
1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
1978 Mike Bryan, born in Oxnard, California, tennis star, USTA National 18 doubles
1978 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National and retires
1977 Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
1977 Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
1977 Coup in Seychelles, National Day
1977 Jere Michael, Aspen, Colorado, figure skater, 1994 National, Jr. champ
1977 Diane Halber, Torrance, California, fig skater, 1996 National Collegiate champ
1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1976 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions
1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss
1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
1974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
1974 Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1973 John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 Michael Joyce, born in Santa Monica, California, tennis star, 1989 USTA National Boys' 18
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
1971 Todd Eldredge, Chatham Massachusetts, figure skater, 1997 National Sr champ
1971 Mary Joe Fernandez, Dominican Republic, tennis player, U.S. National 16s
1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
1971 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon
1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site
1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1971 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National Florida Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1970 70th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn
1970 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
1969 Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63
1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins
1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1968 PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
1968 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
1967 United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
1967 Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer, 1989 National Amat France
1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1966 National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90
1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass)
1964 Jon Hough, Royal Oak, Michigan, Nike golfer, 1986 NAIA Individual National Champ
1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark
1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1963 John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy)
1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1962 Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64
1962 Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1962 Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1962 U.S. national debt above $300,000,000,000
1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League
1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1960 Gabon gains independence from France, National Day
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points
1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points
1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service
1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1955 Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990
1955 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 1st National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council
1953 Dale Earnhardt, auto racer, 6-time NASCAR national champion
1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater New York City after 5 performances
1953 "Maggie" opens at National Theater New York City for 5 performances
1953 NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales
1951 Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances
1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances
1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman, 1989-91
1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1950 National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms
1950 Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach, Oly-sil-92, 96
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in national tennis competition
1950 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year
1950 1st annual National Book Awards
1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa
1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City after 460 performances
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.
1949 German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
1949 People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
1949 Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
1948 "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater New York City for 460 performances
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1948 "Hold It!" opens at National Theater New York City for 46 performances
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey
1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 "Hold It!" closes at National Theater New York City after 46 performances
1948 Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent, National Geographic Explorer
1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 National Security Act establishes CIA
1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1946 Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery
1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day
1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1946 "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater New York City for 734 performances
1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater New York City after 167 performances
1946 Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland
1946 National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic
1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances
1945 Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets
1945 Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day
1945 Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training
1944 Margo MacDonald, Scotish national broadcaster
1944 R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1943 "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem
1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY
1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum
1943 Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre
1942 Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1942 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
1942 Adm Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
1942 Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London
1942 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch National Front, dies at 81
1942 National War Labor Board created
1941 German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union
1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington D.C.
1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1940 Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera
1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1940 U.S. National Guard assembles
1940 David Hart, gen-sect, National Association of Head Teachers
1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1940 Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 Eleanor Smeal, leader, National Organization for Women
1939 Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader, Inyandza National Movement
1939 Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970
1939 Federal Hall National Monument established
1938 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
1938 Olympic National Park forms
1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1938 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank
1937 U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in National Youth Adm
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 National Wildlife Federation forms
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City)
1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act
1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established
1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934 J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery
1934 Duncan Thompson, keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1934 Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union
1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
1934 National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
1933 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1933 Tony Mullett, dir-general, National Criminal Intelligence Service
1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established
1932 Ned Jarrett, auto racer/announcer, 50 Grand National victories
1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City
1932 Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem
1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1931 Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1931 Ronald Hynd, British choreographer, English National Ballet
1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem
1931 National League adopts a deader baseball
1930 Clayton K. Yeutter, Nebraska, U.S. trade rep/Republican National chairman
1930 Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense, 1987-89
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1928 Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party
1928 Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, born in Warsaw, national security advisor, Carter
1927 Don Revie, English soccer coach, Leeds, National team
1927 Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery
1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO, National Power
1927 Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman, National Westminster Bank
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
1927 Left wins national election in Thuringen
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
1926 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1926 National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1926 Prunella Briance, founder, National Childbirth Trust
1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.
1925 Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, /National Security Council
1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin
1924 President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
1923 Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79
1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established
1922 Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1922 Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine
1922 Campbell Adamson, CEO, Abbey National Pictures
1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1922 Dorothy Irene Height, president, national council of negro women
1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established
1921 National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1921 Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist, National Review
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Assn
1920 Bert Leysen, TV director, Belgian National TV
1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1920 National Negro Baseball League organizes
1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1919 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1919 McGeorge Bundy, born in Boston, national security adviser, John F. Kennedy
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
1919 Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1918 National Urban League forms
1918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day)
1917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1917 Oliver Tambo, co-founder, African National Congress
1916 Department of Interior forms National Park Service
1916 Hawaii National Park forms
1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1916 National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1916 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
1915 David Jenklins, librarian, National Library of Wales
1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
1913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp
1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded
1913 National Woman's Party forms
1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
1911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
1911 Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society
1911 National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City)
1910 John Wooden, basketball coach, UCLA-10 national championships
1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1910 National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress
1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1908 Brinsley Ford, CEO, National Art Collections Fund
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument forms near Lake Powell, Utah
1908 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1907 Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art
1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters
1906 Marion Lloyd Vince, born in Brooklyn, New York, fencer, National champ 1928, 31
1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state
1905 Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front
1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey
1904 J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society
1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming, Michigan
1903 Glenna Collett Vare, born in Rhode Island, National Am Golf champ, 1922, 25, 28-30, 35
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
1903 Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace
1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," composed
1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1899 Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum
1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mt. Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.)
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag
1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park
1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's
1896 Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society
1896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City
1895 Freida Geiken, autobiographer, National Historic Taping
1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1893 Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano
1893 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1891 National Forest Service organized
1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs
1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member National Convention, dies at 68
1890 Yosemite National Park forms
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1889 1st U.S. national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1888 National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.
1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1885 John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor, National monument on the Dam
1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party
1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair
1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1880 National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1879 National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1877 Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1877 Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
1876 Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis
1875 National Bowling Association organized in New York City
1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1872 Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia
1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1872 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City
1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant
1871 Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1870 New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1870 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California
1870 U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service
1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1869 Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum
1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1867 Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service
1867 Ruben Dario, national poet, Nicaragua
1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention
1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
1864 Antonio Gonalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1864 Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1864 National black convention meets (Syracuse New York)
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1863 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars"
1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1862 Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York
1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1856 1st national meeting of Republican Party in Pittsburgh
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1853 National Black convention meets, Rochester New York
1852 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1849 Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association
1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo New York)
1839 Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
1838 National Galley opens in London
1836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
1836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York)
1835 6th national black convention (Phila)
1834 5th national black convention meet, New York City
1833 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
1832 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia
1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1831 2nd national black convention, Philadelphia
1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
1830 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1822 Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)
1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev
1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter, 3/9 NS,
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1804 Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1801 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
1799 Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czech poet, national anthem, folk song
1798 Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz
1797 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1796 Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1795 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt
1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1789 1st national Thanksgiving
1789 French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day
1789 French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system
1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
1780 Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
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