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2008 Bhutan holds it's first public election
2006 Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant 2005 Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant 2003 Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant 2000 William Simon, American Public Servant 2000 William E. Simon, American Public Servant 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena California 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York 1996 Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91 1996 William Colby, American Public Servant 1996 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70 1995 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 1995 Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91 1994 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel 1994 "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font New York City for 16 per 1993 Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years 1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness 1992 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84 1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public 1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 1990 Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far 1989 Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public 1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress 1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities 1987 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium 1987 Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing 1984 George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies 1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools 1984 Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56 1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene 1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion 1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) 1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education 1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors 1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar 1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio 1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image 1978 Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 1975 Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools 1974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63 1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof 1972 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant 1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations 1970 Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant 1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) 1969 Allen Dulles, American Public Servant 1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy 1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1967 U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam 1966 Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) 1966 Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant 1965 George Black, Canadian Public Servant 1965 Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination 1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland 1964 William Eardley, IV, American Public Servant 1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages 1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors 1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City 1962 Valerie Kaprisky, born in Paris, France, actress, Breathless, Public Woman 1962 U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation 1961 Dee Dee Myers, American Public Servant 1960 Ari Fleischer, American Public Servant 1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) 1960 Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet' 1960 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1959 Martin Atkins, born in Coventry, England, Martin Clive Atkins, rocker, musician, worked with post-punk, industrial group Public Image Ltd., Ministry 1957 Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant 1957 Pete Jones, born near Watford, England, rocker, British bass guitarist, member of Public Image Ltd. 1957 Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1957 Eliot Ness, American Public Servant 1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall 1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1956 Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public 1955 Bernard Kerik, American Public Servant 1955 Alberto Gonzales, American Public Servant 1954 Mike McCurry, American Public Servant 1954 School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools 1954 Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools 1954 Gale Norton, American Public Servant 1953 Douglas Feith, American Public Servant 1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colorado) 1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution) 1950 Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant 1949 Joseph C. Wilson, American Public Servant 1949 Ann Veneman, American Public Servant 1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance 1947 President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert 1947 Alexis Herman, American Public Servant 1947 John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1946 Hans Frank, German Public Servant 1946 Alasdair Fraser, QC/director, Public Prosecutions for N Ireland 1946 Gary Bauer, American Public Servant 1946 Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service 1945 Sandy Berger, American Public Servant 1945 Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10 1945 Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records 1945 Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant 1945 Dorothy Denning, American Public Servant 1944 Robert Mueller, American Public Servant 1944 Frank Knox, American Public Servant 1943 Mario Monti, Italian Public Servant 1942 John Ashcroft, American Public Servant 1941 Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday 1941 Richard Perle, American Public Servant 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation 1941 Donna Shalala, American Public Servant 1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions 1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair 1938 Porter Goss, American Public Servant 1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School 1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London 1938 James G. Watt, Public Servant 1937 Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant 1936 Rainey Bethea, hanged, last U.S. public execution 1935 Toshihiko Fukui, Japanese Public Servant 1934 Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant 1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective 1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools 1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany 1933 Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy, Strathclyde University 1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service 1933 Myrlie Evers, politician and commissioner LA Board of Public works 1932 Otto Schily, German Public Servant 1932 Karl Kroeger, born in Louisville, Kentucky, composer, studied with Claude Almand, head, American Music Collection, New York Public Library 1931 Charles W. Colson, Public Servant 1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory 1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew 1930 Patrick Pery, born in Ireland, born Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Irish peer, public servant 1929 John Naisbitt, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, author, public speaker, futures studies, wrote, 'Megatrends', 1982, sold over 9 million copies in 57 countries, special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson 1928 G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records 1928 David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago 1928 Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations' 1927 William E. Simon, American Public Servant 1927 Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant 1927 Robert Bork, American Public Servant 1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox 1926 Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Public Servant 1926 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant 1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1924 London public transport strike ends 1924 William Hedgcock Webster, American Public Servant 1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public 1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City) 1923 Markus Wolf, German Public Servant 1922 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant 1921 Jim Garrison, American Public Servant 1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force 1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City) 1920 George Schultz, American Public Servant 1920 Stewart L. Udall, Public Servant 1920 William Colby, American Public Servant 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" 1918 Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant 1917 Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant 1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated 1916 C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant 1915 Edith Cavell, American Public Servant 1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public 1913 New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to U.S. public 1913 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant 1911 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) 1911 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft 1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight 1909 Cleo Brown, born in Mississippi, pianist, vocalist, stage name Cleo Patra Brown, performed on National Public Radio, stride piano playing was compared to Fats Waller 1909 Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant 1909 Joe Arpaio, American Public Servant 1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1907 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 1906 Clark M. Clifford, American Public Servant 1905 Leon Jaworski, American Public Servant 1905 Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958 1905 Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant 1905 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1904 John Simon, public health pioneer, dies 1903 San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing 1902 John Dillinger, U.S. bank robber, public enemy #1 1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn 1901 George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster, Gallup Poll 1900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS) 1900 Hans Frank, German Public Servant 1896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY) 1896 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant 1894 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) 1893 Allen Dulles, American Public Servant 1892 Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools 1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) 1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts) 1891 Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent 1891 Edward Bernays, public relations expert 1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) 1891 Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1888 Washington Monument opens for public admittance 1888 James A. Farley, Public Servant 1887 Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in U.S. (New York City) 1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public 1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens 1880 SF Public Library starts lending books 1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes 1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco 1874 Frank Knox, American Public Servant 1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis 1873 George Black, Canadian Public Servant 1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert 1869 Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant 1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law 1868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution 1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public 1865 Edith Cavell, American Public Servant 1863 Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn 1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason St, SF 1860 Thomas Hastings, born in New York City, architect, New York Public Library 1858 Anson Jones, American Public Servant 1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1852 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London) 1852 1st U.S. public bath opens, in New York City 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration 1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher 1847 1st Dutch public telegram 1846 Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph 1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs 1833 1st tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire 1825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England 1824 Charles Thomson, American Public Servant 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson 1824 Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc 1824 J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public 1821 Clara Barton, American Public Servant 1820 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid" 1818 Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin) 1817 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant 1814 Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for New York Public Library 1803 1st public library opens (Connecticut) 1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized 1798 Anson Jones, American Public Servant 1796 Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools 1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) 1794 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public 1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris 1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight 1776 John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia 1773 1st U.S. public museum established (Charlestown SC) 1766 Samuel Wilson, American Public Servant 1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public 1750 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant 1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed 1742 Faneuil Hall opens to public 1729 Charles Thomson, American Public Servant 1690 Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking 1673 English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions 1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris) 1635 Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded 1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain 1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologist John Eck 418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire |
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