2012 Event The Guardian proclaims 'The Guard' has won its first annual film award 1995 Event Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" 1995 Event Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader 1994 Event Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire 1990 Event At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" 1989 Event Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended 1988 Event PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1986 Event Suriname government proclaims gold purification 1986 Event U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1982 Event President Reagan proclaims war against drugs 1982 Event Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution 1982 Event President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1979 Event Zimbabwe proclaims independence 1977 Event U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa 1973 Event President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century 1972 Event British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike 1972 Event IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland 1971 Event Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule 1970 Event Polish government proclaims price rise 1969 Event U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1965 Event British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia 1965 Event Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion 1964 Event Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN 1963 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) 1962 Event Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery 1961 Event Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization 1959 Event Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution 1959 Event Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council 1957 Event Indonesia proclaims end to state of war 1955 Event Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president 1955 Event Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 1953 Event Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 1951 Event Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1950 Event Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" 1950 Event U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1950 Event Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea 1950 Event President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia 1950 Event Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan) 1949 Event Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China 1949 Event Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire 1948 Event North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea 1946 Event President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II 1946 Event Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution 1946 Event Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over 1946 Event National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic 1942 Event Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1942 Event Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" 1942 Event Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews 1940 Event French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs" 1940 Event France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status 1940 Event Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege 1939 Event Switzerland proclaims neutrality 1939 Event Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1939 Event Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1937 Event Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work 1937 Event Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo" 1936 Event Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece 1935 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth 1933 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday 1933 Event Hitler proclaims end of Marxism 1929 Event President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 1929 Event Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence 1924 Event Greek parliament proclaims republic 1922 Event Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage 1922 Event King George V proclaims Irish Free state 1921 Event Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics 1919 Event Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment, prohibition 1919 Event Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland 1918 Event Bavaria proclaims itself a republic 1918 Event Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1918 Event Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic 1918 Event Latvia proclaims independence 1918 Event Lithuania proclaims independence 1917 Event German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia 1917 Event Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1916 Event Britain proclaims Gilbert and Ellice Is colony in Pacific 1914 Event President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1911 Event Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico 1910 Event Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic 1907 Event Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco 1907 Event U.S. proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic 1906 Event Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising 1900 Event France proclaims a protectorate over Chad 1900 Event Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga 1898 Event Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking 1895 Event France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar 1890 Event Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate 1885 Event Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee 1885 Event Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask 1874 Event Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875 1868 Event Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) 1865 Event President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx 1865 Event President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states 1861 Event Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War 1861 Event Kentucky proclaims its neutrality 1854 Event Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin 1854 Event Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico 1842 Event Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1824 Event Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee 1822 Event Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire 1821 Event Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain 1818 Event Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain 1794 Event French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery 1789 Event Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day 1787 Event French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax 1775 Event King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion 1775 Event Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1774 Event Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee 1769 Event Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee 1720 Event French government proclaims strike on banknotes 1665 Event Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah 1651 Event English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off 1598 Event Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence 1550 Event Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente 1443 Event George Kastriotis [Skanderberg] proclaims Albania principality 1346 Event King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece 69 Event Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor