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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 Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation

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

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