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2009 After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia

2004 Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69

2001 Andre Prevost, composer, professor, Officer of the Order of Canada, dies

1997 Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning

1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order

1995 Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning

1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning

1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1993 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning

1993 Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968

1992 Boris Arapov, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986

1991 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning

1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning

1989 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning

1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning

1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils

1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

1983 Royals defeat Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order

1983 Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning

1982 Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered

1982 Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning

1981 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333)

1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg

1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning

1980 Sweden changes order of succession to throne

1979 Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84

1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence

1976 President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order

1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the U.S. (No 11828)

1974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing

1969 Jillian Hennessy, Edmonton, twin actress, Claire-Law and Order, Paper

1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"

1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s

1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire

1963 Benjamin Bratt, California, actor, Det Reynaldo Curtis-Law and Order

1963 Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Order of St. Benoat), dies at 75

1963 Paul Way, born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, British golfer, won Brabazon Trophy, 1981, turned pro in 1982, won KLM Dutch Open while on the European Tour, second youngest Ryder Cup player in 1983, and 1985, finished in the top 100 in 1993, on the Order of Merit, after 1997, his participation in tournament golf waned

1963 Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70

1962 Zulqarnain, cricketer, last person in alphabetical order to play Test

1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge

1952 S Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw, Michigan, actress, Lt Van Buren-Law and Order

1950 Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea

1948 Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host

1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces

1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed

1947 Luc Journet, Belgian physician, Order of Zonnetempel

1947 Roelof P Meyer, South Africa under minister of Law and Order etc

1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty

1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808

1946 U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain

1946 Leon Wessels, South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law and Order

1946 Anne Boyd, born in Sydney, New South Wales, composer, professor of composition at the University of Sydney, recipient, Order of Australia, for contributions to music

1945 George Dzunda, born in Rosenheim, Germany, actor, Deer Hunter, Law and Order

1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece

1944 Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin

1944 Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet, For the Good Order

1943 Stephen Wallace, director, For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride

1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes

1943 Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great

1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad

1942 Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed

1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

1940 Chay Blyth, English sailor, Alone in Order to the World

1938 Jacques Hetu, born in Trois-Rivieres Quebec, composer, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1989, Officer of the Order of Canada, 2001

1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

1937 Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law and Order, 1986-

1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians

1936 Phil Sharpe, cricketer, England middle order batsman during 60's

1935 Jerry Ohrbach, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Law and Order, Dirty Dancing

1934 Andre Prevost, born in Canada, composer, professor, Officer of the Order of Canada

1933 Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel

1930 Patrick Pery, born in Ireland, born Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Irish peer, public servant

1929 Dick Shawn, Buffalo, New York, actor, Producers, Maid to Order, Angel

1927 Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90

1926 David Ogilvy, born in London, England, David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, judge, served as Lord Chamberlain

1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions

1922 Steven Hill, born in Seattle, Washington, actor, Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law and Order

1920 William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator

1920 Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to

1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City

1917 John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League

1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated

1915 Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, born in England, 17th Duke of Norfolk, The Most Notable Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, awarded Military Cross

1915 Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

1912 Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968

1912 Arthur Victor Berger, New York City, composer, Ideas of Order

1910 Angus Campbell, U.S., psychologist, Elections and Political Order

1910 Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit

1905 Boris Arapov, born in Poltava, Ukraine, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986

1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII

1901 Eric Voegelin, Germany, U.S. philosopher, Order and History

1899 Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati

1896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective

1895 Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist, Brazilian Order of Merit

1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia

1888 Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award

1879 Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, poet, Ideas of Order

1877 Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo

1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organizes

1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City

1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse

1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order number 800

1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia

1868 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms (New York)

1865 At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last

1865 General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)

1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1862 General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee

1862 General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores

1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

1859 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher, Moral order and progress

1850 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member

1841 King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon

1837 Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian, Robert's Rules of Order

1829 John Everett Millais, England, painter, Order of Release

1815 King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion

1802 French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms

1782 George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart

1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army

1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne

1696 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/religious order founder

1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed

1633 Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72

1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique

1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI

1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope

1540 Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits

1496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I

1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus

1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX

1431 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies

1430 Order of the Guilder forms

1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain

1394 Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI

1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star

1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)

1314 Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies

1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I

1253 Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen

1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III

1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)

1124 Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies

1121 Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen


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