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2013 Event - A meeting of the U.N. General Assembly organized by former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, is boycotted by the United States, Jordan and Canada

1977 Event - Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City)

1966 Event - Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1959 Event - AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston

1953 Event - U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

1952 Event - 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)

1950 Event - Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League

1947 Event - Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized

1945 Event - Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off

1945 Event - Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan

1941 Event - Football Writers Association of America organized

1941 Event - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California

1939 Event - NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund

1938 Event - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

1937 Birthday - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner

1932 Event - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized

1930 Event - 1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas

1924 Event - History of Science Society organized at Boston

1922 Event - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

1922 Event - U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

1920 Event - Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago

1919 Event - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks

1919 Event - Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris)

1918 Death - Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60

1915 Event - Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati

1904 Event - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1903 Event - Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY

1901 Event - U.S. Steel Corp organized under J. P. Morgan

1900 Event - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis

1898 Event - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1897 Birthday - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player and organized Japanese baseball

1895 Event - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati

1892 Event - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts

1891 Event - National Forest Service organized

1890 Event - 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)

1889 Event - American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia

1888 Event - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona

1887 Event - American Trotting Association organized in Detroit

1887 Event - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

1886 Event - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized

1885 Event - U.S. Salvation Army officially organized

1883 Event - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized in Philadelphia

1882 Event - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized

1882 Event - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey

1882 Event - Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

1879 Event - Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill

1878 Event - 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines

1876 Event - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

1875 Event - Natives Sons of the West organized

1875 Event - National Bowling Association organized in New York City

1872 Event - SF Bar Association organized

1872 Event - California Stock Exchange Board organized

1871 Event - National Rifle Association organized in New York City

1871 Event - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized

1869 Event - Hawaiian YMCA organized

1868 Event - American Philological Association organized in NY

1867 Event - Grange organized to protect farm interests

1867 Birthday - Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service

1867 Birthday - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co

1863 Event - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva

1862 Event - North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF

1860 Event - Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time

1858 Event - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry

1857 Event - American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City)

1857 Event - San Francisco Water Works organized

1857 Event - Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized

1856 Birthday - Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration

1856 Event - 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized

1854 Event - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisconsin

1853 Event - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory

1852 Event - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized

1851 Birthday - Daniel Carter Beard, U.S., organized 1st boy scout troop

1850 Event - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized

1850 Event - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized

1847 Event - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)

1845 Event - 1st baseball team is organized

1844 Event - 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club

1838 Event - Iowa Territory is organized

1834 Event - 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY)

1833 Event - New York Anti-Slavery Society organized

1831 Event - 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn

1821 Event - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st U.S. pharmacy college

1820 Event - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone)

1819 Event - Territory of Arkansas organized

1816 Event - American Bible Society organized in New York

1810 Event - 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia

1804 Death - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies

1800 Event - Indiana Territory organized

1798 Event - Mississippi Territory organized

1793 Event - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized

1785 Event - Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized

1775 Event - Continental Navy organized with 7 ships

1774 Event - Minute Men organized in colonies

1769 Birthday - William Smith, geologist, Strata Identified by Organized Fossils

1748 Event - United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized

1676 Event - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass













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