2014 Event 'The Battle of the Five Armies', the last film in 'The Hobbit' series, grosses over $90 million in its first five days of release, exceeding box office expectations of $75 million 2014 Event Office supply company Staples announces that up to 1.16 million cards may have been affected by a data breach in October; the company is offering free identity theft protection for shoppers at the affected stores and advises all customers to monitor their credit records 2014 Event Botswana doctor Matshidiso Moeti will serve as new director of the World Health Organization office in Africa; Moeti will be instrumental in prevention of additional Ebola outbreaks and in restoration of health care facilities in Ebola-hit nations 2014 Event Iran is strengthening gender segregation policies, forbidding women to work in public areas of restaurants and seeking separation from men in office settings; the move will increase the 18.9% female jobless rate 2014 Event Protests erupt after China issues a decision to not allow free elections in Hong Kong, instead requiring government approval of any candidate running for office 2014 Event Texas Governor Rick Perry has been convicted of felony for threatening to block state funds from the office of District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg unless she resigned; the threat stemmed from Lehmberg's arrest for drunk driving 2014 Event The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has canceled trademarks of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name and trademarks are 'offensive to Native Americans'; the team has been under pressure for years to change its name 2014 Event Early election tallies show that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be the next president of Egypt; el-Sisi, the military commander who removed former president Mohamed Morsi from office due to mass protests, resigned his military position to run for president 2014 Event South African President Jacob Zuma is sworn into office for his second 5-year term 2013 Event Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2013 Event When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellin to take his place 2013 Event The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison 2013 Event Zillur Rahman, age 84, the President of Bangladesh, dies in office after a long illness at a hospital in Singapore; the government declared three days of mourning 2013 Event In the U.K., the top 50 payday loan companies were sited for "widespread irresponsible lending"; the Office of Fair Trading gives them 12 weeks to change their practices 2013 Event President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas; he was 58 2013 Event President Barack Obama is inaugurated in the Blue Room of the White House; this is his second term in office 2012 Event In an effort to curb binge drinking and other alcohol related problems, the United Kingdom's Home Office begins a 10-week consultation on whether to introduce a minimum price on the sale of alcohol of 45p a unit 2012 Event Dioncounda Traore, Acting President of Mali, requires hospitalization after encountering angry demonstrators who object to the 70-year old to hold the office for a year 2012 Event In recognition of democratic reforms, the European Union opens an office in Burma 2012 Event The Anonymous computer hacking group is credited with launching an attack on the United Kingdom Home Office 2012 Event The animated film, 'The Lorax' earns $70.7 million dollars at the box office, the fifth highest returns ever for an animated film 2011 Event In anticipation of Budget Day, students protesting against the Irish financial crisis occupy the office of Fine Gael lawmaker Anthony Lawlor 2011 Event Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa 2011 Event The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) states it could save $5.5 billion in 30 years if dollar bills are replaced with coins 2011 Event Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years 2010 Event The United Nations appoints Russia diplomat, Yury Fedotov, to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2000 Death 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 1998 Event U.S. movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year 1998 Event U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days) 1998 Event Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament 1997 Event For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion 1994 Event Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead 1990 Event Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) 1989 Event African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam 1989 Event Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1988 Event Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes 1988 Event Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches 1987 Event Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson 1986 Event Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office 1986 Event Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment 1984 Event Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi 1982 Event U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York closes 1982 Event Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office 1979 Event U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps 1978 Event Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran 1978 Event Muriel Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1978, wife of late Hubert Humphrey takes his office 1978 Event Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building 1977 Event U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. 1974 Event President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 1971 Event Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 1970 Death Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies 1968 Death Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 1967 Event Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep 1965 Event London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England 1965 Death Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62 1965 Event Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1964 Event Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes 1964 Death J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office 1964 Event President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 1963 Event 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office 1963 Birthday Steve Carell, born in Concord, Massachusetts, actor, comedian, producer, known as Michael Scott on 'The Office' television show, films include, 'Evan Almighty' 1961 Event U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God 1960 Event Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration 1960 Event 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1959 Death William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery 1956 Event Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized 1955 Event 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 1953 Birthday John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War 1951 Birthday Sally Ride, born in Encino, California, physicist, astronaut, first American woman crewmember in space on the Challenger, founded NASA's Office of Exploration 1951 Event Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office 1950 Event 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash and $1.5M securities 1947 Event British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 1946 Birthday Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office 1945 Event U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) disbands 1945 Event 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office 1944 Event Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank 1944 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) 1944 Event Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer 1944 Event Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd 1943 Event Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China 1943 Event NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier 1943 Event World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head 1942 Event OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms 1942 Birthday William McLennan, CEO, Central Statistical Office 1941 Event U.S. Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II 1941 Event Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing) 1941 Event 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1940 Event 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office 1939 Birthday Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office 1938 Birthday Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office 1936 Event Quiroga government takes office in Spain 1935 Birthday Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank 1933 Event 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office 1932 Birthday Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office 1931 Birthday Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office 1930 Birthday Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1928 Event 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio 1927 Birthday John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office 1927 Event U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes 1927 Birthday Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office 1926 Event De Geer government in Netherlands takes office 1925 Birthday Monica Lewis, actress, Box Office 1925 Birthday Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Event Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1924 Birthday Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1924 Birthday John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office 1922 Birthday Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter 1921 Event U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency 1920 Birthday Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter 1918 Birthday Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter 1918 Event President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office 1917 Birthday Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter 1917 Birthday Lawrence F O'Brien, Watergate conspirators broke into his office 1916 Event Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin 1915 Event 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1914 Event U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail 1914 Event New York Post Office Building opens to public 1913 Event Post office begins parcel post deliveries 1911 Birthday Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office 1911 Event U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes 1910 Birthday Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office 1909 Event U.S. pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office 1909 Event U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens 1908 Event U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized 1907 Event 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) 1905 Birthday Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office 1903 Birthday Catherine Dale Owen, actress, Behind Office Doors, Louisville, Kentucky 1903 Event President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1902 Birthday Kitty Kelly, born in New York City, actress, Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors 1900 Event U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps 1898 Event U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized 1898 Event Post Office authorizes use of postcards 1898 Event U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens 1896 Event U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized 1894 Event Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. 1892 Birthday Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect, tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam 1892 Event U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp 1892 Birthday Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor, From Office Stool to High C 1891 Event Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created 1885 Death Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office 1885 Event U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1882 Event 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office 1881 Event U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri opens 1881 Event Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1881 Event U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized 1877 Event U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 1876 Event New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office 1876 Event 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office 1874 Event 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office 1874 Event Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1874 Event 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office 1874 Event U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized 1873 Event P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor 1872 Event 1st black U.S. Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) 1872 Event 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office 1871 Event Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress 1869 Event U.S. Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized 1866 Event 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office 1866 Event Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo and Co office explodes 1861 Event British Post Office Savings Banks opens 1861 Event Anaheim Post Office established 1861 Event President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1861 Event Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington 1861 Event President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington D.C. to take office 1860 Event Congress establishes Government Printing Office 1860 Event Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture 1856 Event Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens 1854 Event U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York opens 1853 Event U.S. Assay Office in New York City authorized 1852 Event 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office 1850 Event Hawaiian post office established 1850 Event 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office 1848 Event Post office at Clay and Pike opens 1848 Event James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady 1847 Event Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1844 Death Christian Gobrecht, 4th U.S. chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office 1843 Event 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office 1841 Death William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68 1840 Death William Kneass, 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office 1836 Event Patent Office burns in Wash, DC 1829 Birthday John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold U.S. political office 1823 Event 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office 1813 Event Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms 1812 Death George Clinton, 4th U.S. Vice President, dies at 73 1st Vice President to, die in office 1801 Event 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia 1794 Event U.S. Post Office established 1791 Event 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 1789 Event Congress creates Post Office 1789 Event U.S. Attorney General Office is created 1789 Event Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department 1789 Event U.S. Post Office established 1775 Event 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office 1775 Event Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) 1746 Birthday Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington 1661 Event French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1639 Event 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts 1635 Event Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office 1598 Event London's head office of Hanze closed 1498 Event Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess 1415 Event Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 418 Event Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
