2015 Event Online preorders begin for the Apple Watch, initially planned for sale on April 24th; however, the volume of orders has already pushed delivery dates into June or July for the various models, which are priced from $349 to $17,000 2015 Event A federal U.S. judge orders a halt to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama that allows approximately 5 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country; Obama expects to overcome this hurdle to implement the order as planned 2015 Event TransAsia Airways suspends flights and begins retraining all its pilots in compliance with orders from Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration after the crash of Flight 235 into the Keelung River three days ago 2014 Event Chinese auto manufacturer FAW Group begins taking orders for its luxury Red Flag L5 custom-made auto; the vehicle is priced similarly to a Ferrari at approximately $803,000 2013 Event The biggest version of Boeing's Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuts at the Paris Air show; over 100 orders, worth over $30 billion, are placed 2013 Event In the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist posts on Twitter, a French court orders the company to reveal personal information about its users 2012 Event The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks 2012 Event Pope Benedict XVI's former butler receives orders from the Vatican to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leading allegations of corruption in the Holy See 2011 Event Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab 2011 Event In Egypt, the court orders the former ruling National Democratic Part of Hosni Mubarak be dissolved 2011 Event Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh orders the country's security forces to protect protesters 2010 Event A Tel Aviv judge orders safe deposit boxes at a Zurich bank opened; the boxes may contain drawings and manuscripts by writer Franz Kafka 1997 Event Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows 1997 Event French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages 1995 Event Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes 1995 Event Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike 1993 Event Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad 1992 Event President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees 1990 Event Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq 1989 Event Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 1989 Event President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama 1989 Event FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S. 1989 Event Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie 1988 Event Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections 1988 Event Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit 1988 Event Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. 1988 Event Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut 1987 Event NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike 1985 Event President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa 1984 Event Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989 1984 Event Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple 1983 Event Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino 1982 Event In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH 1979 Event Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop 1979 Event L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask 1979 Event Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters 1978 Event Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected 1975 Event Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison 1971 Event President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free 1971 Event National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 1970 Event Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property 1969 Event BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus 1968 Event President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 1964 Event Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders 1964 Event Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend 1963 Event U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia 1963 Event Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1962 Event Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape 1962 Event Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis 1962 Event U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss 1961 Event Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate 1961 Event Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba 1958 Event U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate 1958 Event President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock 1957 Event Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 1955 Event KLM orders 8 DC-8's 1955 Event Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor 1955 Event Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" 1955 Event Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto "In God We Trust" 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1950 Event President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1950 Event North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1949 Event General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra 1946 Event President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces 1944 Event Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums 1944 Event Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars 1943 Event Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) 1943 Event German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1943 Event Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians 1943 Event Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos 1943 Event Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry 1943 Event Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1942 Event Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus 1942 Event Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan 1942 Event Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration 1942 Event Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man 1942 Event Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed 1942 Event General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Event German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed 1942 Event Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Event Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered 1942 Event Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples 1942 Event Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered 1942 Event Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders men between 45 and 64 to register for non military duty 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1941 Event Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed 1941 Event Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1941 Event Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 Event Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani 1941 Event Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z 1941 Event Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta 1940 Event Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelowe) 1940 Event Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain 1940 Event Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders 1940 Event Hitler orders invasion of England 1940 Event Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships 1940 Event Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Event Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1939 Event Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill 1935 Event Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray 1935 Event Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 1928 Event Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1925 Event Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested 1924 Event England orders Egyptians out of Sudan 1914 Event German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize 1900 Event Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners 1898 Event U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors 1867 Event General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors 1865 Event Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1864 Event Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1863 Event President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1863 Event Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked 1863 Event Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1862 Event President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1862 Event U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him 1862 Event General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint 1861 Event Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry 1861 Event Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1834 Event President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1808 Event Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships 1808 Event French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names 1804 Event Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana 1802 Event Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) 1796 Event General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1783 Event Washington orders Continental Army disbanded 1776 Event In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" 1775 Event Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet 1775 Event Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon 1774 Event Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment 1774 Event Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed 1742 Event Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia 1716 Event Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels 1700 Event Mass orders priest to leave the colony 1692 Event MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III 1687 Event King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church 1639 Event Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders 1639 Event 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford 1639 Event Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" 1634 Event Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution 1572 Event King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants 1553 Event Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud 1548 Event Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans 1545 Event French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed 1538 Event King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants 1536 Event King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church 1533 Event Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa 1520 Event King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1451 Event Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge 1428 Event King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons 1349 Event Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells 1306 Event King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France 1290 Event King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews 1275 Event King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews 1267 Event Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb 1267 Event Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps 1235 Event Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names 1133 Event William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England 303 Event Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
