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1977 Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City)
1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball 1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston 1953 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 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) 1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off 1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan 1941 Football Writers Association of America organized 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California 1939 NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund 1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game 1937 Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized 1930 1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas 1924 History of Science Society organized at Boston 1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws 1920 Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago 1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris) 1918 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati 1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 1901 U.S. Steel Corp organized under J. P. Morgan 1900 American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis 1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital 1897 Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player and organized Japanese baseball 1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati 1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts 1891 National Forest Service organized 1890 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) 1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia 1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized 1885 U.S. Salvation Army officially organized 1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized in Philadelphia 1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized 1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey 1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust 1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill 1878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines 1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia 1875 Natives Sons of the West organized 1875 National Bowling Association organized in New York City 1872 SF Bar Association organized 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized 1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City 1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized 1868 American Philological Association organized in NY 1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests 1867 Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service 1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co 1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 1862 North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF 1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time 1858 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry 1857 American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City) 1857 San Francisco Water Works organized 1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized 1856 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration 1856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized 1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisconsin 1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory 1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized 1851 Daniel Carter Beard, U.S., organized 1st boy scout troop 1850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized 1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized 1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1845 1st baseball team is organized 1844 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club 1838 Iowa Territory is organized 1834 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) 1833 New York Anti-Slavery Society organized 1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn 1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st U.S. pharmacy college 1820 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone) 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized 1816 American Bible Society organized in New York 1810 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 1804 Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies 1800 Indiana Territory organized 1798 Mississippi Territory organized 1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships 1774 Minute Men organized in colonies 1769 William Smith, geologist, Strata Identified by Organized Fossils 1748 United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized 1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass |
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