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1997 Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows

1997 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages

1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes

1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike

1993 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad

1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees

1990 Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq

1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK

1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama

1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S.

1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie

1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections

1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit

1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K.

1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut

1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike

1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa

1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989

1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple

1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino

1982 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 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

1979 L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask

1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters

1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected

1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

1971 President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free

1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property

1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders

1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend

1963 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia

1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools

1962 Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape

1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

1962 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss

1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate

1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba

1958 U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate

1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock

1957 Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools

1955 KLM orders 8 DC-8's

1955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor

1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1955 Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad

1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra

1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums

1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)

1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government

1943 Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians

1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos

1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death

1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus

1942 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan

1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man

1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed

1942 General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad

1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp

1942 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered

1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples

1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered

1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders men between 45 and 64 to register for non military duty

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1941 Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed

1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp

1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani

1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z

1941 Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta

1940 Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelowe)

1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain

1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders

1940 Hitler orders invasion of England

1940 Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice

1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill

1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray

1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty

1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

1925 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested

1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan

1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

1900 Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners

1898 U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors

1867 General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors

1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death

1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army

1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1862 President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians

1862 U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1862 General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint

1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry

1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute

1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships

1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names

1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana

1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti)

1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy

1783 Washington orders Continental Army disbanded

1776 In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"

1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon

1774 Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment

1774 Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed

1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia

1716 Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels

1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony

1692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III

1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church

1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders

1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford

1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"

1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution

1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants

1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud

1548 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans

1545 French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed

1538 King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants

1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church

1533 Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa

1520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall

1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge

1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

1349 Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells

1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France

1290 King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews

1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews

1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb

1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps

1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names

1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England

303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians


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