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2013 Event - Charged with bribing public officials in Argentina between 2005 and 2009, clothing retailer Ralph Lauren agrees to pay $1.6 million to resolve U.S. regulatory and criminal claims

2012 Event - The United Kingdom plans to create new private and public sector universities; these will be the first universities the country has created in decades

2012 Event - Half of the population of New York City, and millions of others in the Northeastern United States continue to deal with power outages, gas shortages and limited public transportation after Hurricane Sandy struck; the death toll rises to 90

2012 Event - The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation

2012 Event - The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike

2012 Event - For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements'

2012 Event - Lebanon passes a ban prohibiting smoking in closed public places

2012 Event - A proposal for a statue to George Orwell is flatly turned down by the BBC, who said Orwell resigned from the organization, 'because for some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my time and the public money on doing work that produces no results.'

2012 Event - Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's President, signs a controversial law concerning the status of 18 languages as regional and minority languages; the law allows officials in Russian-speaking regions of the country to use Russian in documents and at public events

2012 Event - In India, a nationwide strike against rising gas prices closes shops and interrupts public transport across the country

2012 Event - More than 700 writers, academics and others send a letter to protest the planned spending of $300 million on the Fifth Avenue Branch of the New York Public Library

2012 Event - SkyNews admits it illegally hacked emails that belonged to members of the public on two separate occasions

2011 Event - Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, attacks Britain, claiming the students represent Iran's public opinion

2011 Event - New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest

2011 Event - After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project

2011 Event - Google's new social network service, Google+, is released to the general public

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Public Security arrests over 2,000 people in an effort to crackdown on gang-related crime

2011 Event - With weak economic prospects and significant levels of public debt, Japan is downgraded to Aa3 by Moody's credit rating agency

2011 Event - Nepal, India exercises a smoking ban in public places

2011 Event - According to Bloomberg, Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

2011 Event - By order of an Egyptian court, the name of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, is stripped from public spaces, schools and streets

2011 Event - National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigns after a scandal involving NPR executives

2010 Event - Indonesian rights groups applaud the end of a Suharto-era law that bans books deemed 'offensive' or a 'threat to public order'

2010 Event - Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment

2008 Event - Bhutan holds it's first public election

2006 Death - Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant

2005 Death - Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

2003 Death - Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant

2000 Death - William Simon, American Public Servant

2000 Death - William E. Simon, American Public Servant

1997 Event - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena California

1997 Event - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York

1996 Death - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91

1996 Death - William Colby, American Public Servant

1996 Death - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70

1995 Death - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82

1995 Death - Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91

1994 Event - 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel

1994 Event - "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font New York City for 16 per

1993 Event - Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years

1993 Event - Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness

1992 Death - Oliver Franks, English Public Servant

1992 Death - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84

1991 Event - California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public

1991 Death - Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies

1990 Event - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years

1990 Event - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

1989 Event - Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public

1989 Event - Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public

1989 Event - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

1988 Event - Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities

1987 Event - Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium

1987 Event - Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing

1984 Death - George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies

1984 Event - Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools

1984 Death - 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 Event - Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene

1984 Event - California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital

1983 Event - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion

1983 Event - AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires

1982 Event - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze

1982 Event - Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)

1982 Event - Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education

1980 Event - FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors

1979 Event - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line

1979 Event - Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar

1978 Event - President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio

1978 Event - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image

1978 Event - Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974

1975 Event - Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools

1974 Death - Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63

1974 Event - Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof

1972 Death - J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

1971 Event - All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations

1970 Death - Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant

1969 Event - Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City)

1969 Death - Allen Dulles, American Public Servant

1969 Event - "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

1968 Event - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional

1968 Birthday - Billy Crudup, born in Manhattan, New York, actor, appeared in film, 'Dedication', 'Watchmen', 'Public Enemies', 'Almost Famous', 'Big Fish'

1967 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1967 Event - U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1966 Event - Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)

1966 Death - Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant

1965 Death - George Black, Canadian Public Servant

1965 Event - Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination

1964 Event - Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland

1964 Birthday - William Eardley, IV, American Public Servant

1964 Event - Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages

1964 Event - Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools

1964 Event - Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination

1963 Event - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama

1963 Event - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school

1963 Event - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1963 Event - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors

1962 Event - Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools

1962 Event - Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City

1962 Birthday - Valerie Kaprisky, born in Paris, France, actress, Breathless, Public Woman

1962 Event - U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation

1961 Birthday - Dee Dee Myers, American Public Servant

1960 Birthday - Ari Fleischer, American Public Servant

1960 Event - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)

1960 Birthday - 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 Death - Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant

1959 Birthday - Martin Atkins, born in Coventry, England, Martin Clive Atkins, rocker, musician, worked with post-punk, industrial group Public Image Ltd., Ministry

1957 Birthday - Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant

1957 Birthday - Pete Jones, born near Watford, England, rocker, British bass guitarist, member of Public Image Ltd.

1957 Birthday - 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 Death - Eliot Ness, American Public Servant

1957 Birthday - Amy Goodman, born in Bay Shore, New York, journalist, author, host of 'Democracy Now!' public radio news program, focusing on peace, human rights movements

1957 Event - San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall

1956 Event - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

1956 Event - Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates

1956 Event - Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public

1955 Birthday - Bernard Kerik, American Public Servant

1955 Birthday - Alberto Gonzales, American Public Servant

1954 Birthday - Mike McCurry, American Public Servant

1954 Event - School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools

1954 Event - Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools

1954 Birthday - Gale Norton, American Public Servant

1953 Birthday - Douglas Feith, American Public Servant

1952 Event - 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colorado)

1950 Birthday - Jenny Holzer, born in Gallipolis, Ohio, conceptual artist, abstract artist, known for use of words and ideas in public spaces

1950 Event - Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)

1950 Death - Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

1949 Birthday - Joseph C. Wilson, American Public Servant

1949 Birthday - Ann Veneman, American Public Servant

1948 Event - "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance

1947 Event - President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert

1947 Birthday - Alexis Herman, American Public Servant

1947 Birthday - 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 Death - Hans Frank, German Public Servant

1946 Birthday - Alasdair Fraser, QC/director, Public Prosecutions for N Ireland

1946 Birthday - Gary Bauer, American Public Servant

1946 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Sandy Berger, American Public Servant

1945 Event - Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10

1945 Birthday - Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records

1945 Birthday - Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

1945 Birthday - Dorothy Denning, American Public Servant

1944 Birthday - Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

1944 Death - Frank Knox, American Public Servant

1943 Birthday - Mario Monti, Italian Public Servant

1942 Birthday - John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

1941 Birthday - Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1941 Birthday - Richard Perle, American Public Servant

1941 Event - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

1941 Birthday - Donna Shalala, American Public Servant

1940 Birthday - Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions

1939 Event - NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair

1938 Birthday - Porter Goss, American Public Servant

1938 Event - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School

1938 Event - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London

1938 Birthday - James G. Watt, Public Servant

1937 Birthday - Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant

1936 Death - Rainey Bethea, hanged, last U.S. public execution

1935 Birthday - Toshihiko Fukui, Japanese Public Servant

1934 Birthday - Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

1933 Event - Public Works Administration becomes effective

1933 Birthday - 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 Event - Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany

1933 Birthday - Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy, Strathclyde University

1933 Event - 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service

1933 Birthday - Myrlie Evers-Williams, politician and commissioner LA Board of Public works

1932 Birthday - Otto Schily, German Public Servant

1932 Birthday - Karl Kroeger, born in Louisville, Kentucky, composer, studied with Claude Almand, head, American Music Collection, New York Public Library

1931 Birthday - Charles W. Colson, Public Servant

1930 Birthday - Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory

1930 Event - New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew

1930 Birthday - 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 Birthday - 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 Birthday - G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records

1928 Birthday - 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 Birthday - 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 Birthday - William E. Simon, American Public Servant

1927 Birthday - Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

1927 Birthday - Robert Bork, American Public Servant

1927 Event - 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 Birthday - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Public Servant

1926 Birthday - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant

1926 Event - 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London

1924 Event - London public transport strike ends

1924 Birthday - William Hedgcock Webster, American Public Servant

1923 Event - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public

1923 Event - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City)

1923 Birthday - Markus Wolf, German Public Servant

1922 Birthday - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

1921 Birthday - Jim Garrison, American Public Servant

1921 Event - Belgium's public library law goes into force

1920 Event - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City)

1920 Birthday - George Schultz, American Public Servant

1920 Birthday - Stewart L. Udall, Public Servant

1920 Birthday - William Colby, American Public Servant

1919 Event - 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"

1918 Birthday - Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant

1917 Birthday - Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant

1917 Event - SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated

1916 Birthday - C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant

1915 Death - Edith Cavell, American Public Servant

1914 Event - New York Post Office Building opens to public

1913 Event - New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to U.S. public

1913 Birthday - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant

1911 Event - 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)

1911 Birthday - Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant

1911 Event - New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft

1910 Event - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight

1909 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

1909 Birthday - Joe Arpaio, American Public Servant

1908 Event - New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public

1907 Death - Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58

1906 Birthday - Clark M. Clifford, American Public Servant

1905 Birthday - Leon Jaworski, American Public Servant

1905 Birthday - Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958

1905 Birthday - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant

1905 Birthday - Oliver Franks, English Public Servant

1904 Death - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies

1903 Event - San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use

1902 Event - Building begins on Dutch public housing

1902 Birthday - John Dillinger, U.S. bank robber, public enemy #1

1902 Event - Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn

1901 Birthday - George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster, Gallup Poll

1900 Event - Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)

1900 Birthday - Hans Frank, German Public Servant

1896 Event - 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)

1896 Event - 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City

1895 Birthday - J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

1894 Event - 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)

1893 Birthday - Allen Dulles, American Public Servant

1892 Event - Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools

1892 Event - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band, New Jersey

1892 Event - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts)

1891 Birthday - Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent

1891 Birthday - Edward Bernays, public relations expert

1891 Event - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath)

1891 Birthday - Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant

1889 Event - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

1888 Event - Washington Monument opens for public admittance

1888 Birthday - James A. Farley, Public Servant

1887 Event - Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in U.S. (New York City)

1886 Event - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public

1886 Event - 1st public Dutch electricity opens

1880 Event - SF Public Library starts lending books

1879 Event - Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp

1877 Event - San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes

1876 Event - 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco

1874 Birthday - Frank Knox, American Public Servant

1873 Event - 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis

1873 Birthday - George Black, Canadian Public Servant

1870 Event - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert

1869 Birthday - Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

1869 Event - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

1868 Death - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution

1866 Event - Woodward's Gardens opens to public

1865 Birthday - Edith Cavell, American Public Servant

1863 Event - Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn

1861 Event - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason St, SF

1860 Birthday - Thomas Hastings, born in New York City, architect, New York Public Library

1858 Death - Anson Jones, American Public Servant

1852 Event - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)

1852 Event - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London)

1852 Event - 1st U.S. public bath opens, in New York City

1850 Event - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1848 Event - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

1847 Event - 1st Dutch public telegram

1846 Event - Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

1840 Event - Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date

1838 Event - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph

1833 Event - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs

1833 Event - 1st tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire

1825 Event - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England

1824 Death - Charles Thomson, American Public Servant

1824 Event - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1824 Birthday - Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc

1824 Event - J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public

1821 Birthday - Clara Barton, American Public Servant

1820 Death - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63

1819 Event - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid"

1818 Event - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)

1817 Death - John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

1814 Birthday - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for New York Public Library

1803 Event - 1st public library opens (Connecticut)

1798 Event - U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized

1798 Birthday - Anson Jones, American Public Servant

1796 Birthday - Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools

1794 Event - Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)

1794 Event - 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public

1793 Event - 1st public zoo opens in Paris

1793 Event - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

1783 Event - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight

1776 Event - John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia

1766 Birthday - Samuel Wilson, American Public Servant

1756 Birthday - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public

1750 Birthday - John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

1748 Event - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed

1742 Event - Faneuil Hall opens to public

1729 Birthday - Charles Thomson, American Public Servant

1690 Event - Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking

1673 Event - English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions

1667 Event - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)

1635 Event - Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded

1599 Event - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings

1562 Event - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1520 Event - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain

1519 Event - Public debate between Martin Luther and theologist John Eck

418 Event - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire













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