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
1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1998 U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
1998 Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
1997 For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead
1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
1986 Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office
1986 Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1982 U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York closes
1982 Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office
1979 U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1978 Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
1978 Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1974 President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1974 President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1970 Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
1968 Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep
1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England
1965 Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1964 Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1963 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office
1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1959 William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1956 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
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
1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash and $1.5M securities
1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1946 Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office
1945 US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1945 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer
1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd
1943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1943 NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms
1942 William McLennan, CEO, Central Statistical Office
1941 US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
1941 Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office
1939 Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
1938 Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1937 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary, Welsh Office
1936 Quiroga government takes office in Spain
1935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
1933 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office
1932 Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office
1931 Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office
1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office
1928 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
1927 John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office
1927 U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1927 Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office
1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1925 Monica Lewis, actress, Box Office
1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office
1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office
1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office
1922 Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter
1921 U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1920 Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter
1918 Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter
1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office
1917 Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter
1917 Lawrence F O'Brien, Watergate conspirators broke into his office
1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
1914 U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail
1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1911 Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office
1911 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes
1910 Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office
1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office
1909 U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1908 U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1905 Harry Campion, statistician/founder, Brit Central Statistical Office
1903 Catherine Dale Owen, actress, Behind Office Doors, Louisville KY
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1902 Kitty Kelly, born in New York City, actress, Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors
1900 U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1898 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1898 U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1896 U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S.
1892 Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect, tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam
1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1892 Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor, From Office Stool to High C
1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created
1885 Thomas A Hendricks, 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1882 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri opens
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized
1877 U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1876 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office
1874 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office
1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1874 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office
1874 U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
1873 P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
1872 1st black U.S. Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1872 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office
1871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
1869 U.S. Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo and Co office explodes
1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington D.C. to take office
1860 Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture
1856 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1854 U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York opens
1853 U.S. Assay Office in New York City authorized
1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office
1850 Hawaiian post office established
1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office
1848 Post office at Clay and Pike opens
1848 James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady
1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1844 Christian Gobrecht, 4th U.S. chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1843 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1841 William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68
1840 William Kneass, 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold U.S. political office
1823 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. VP; died in office
1813 Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms
1812 George Clinton, 4th U.S. VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
1801 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1794 U.S. Post Office established
1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1789 Congress creates Post Office
1789 US Attorney General Office is created
1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
1789 U.S. Post Office established
1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office
1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1746 Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1639 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
1635 Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office
1598 London's head office of Hanze closed
1498 Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess
1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
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