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1997
Fed 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
Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
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 Gov 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
PM 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
Gen 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 Czechs 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 gen Pangulos arrested
1924
England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1914
German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914
British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1900
Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1898
U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1867
Gen 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
Gen 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 Capt 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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