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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

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

1992 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant

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 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, [Chuck Ridenhour], U.S. rapper, Public Enemy

1960 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant

1957 Eliot Ness, American Public Servant

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

1957 Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant

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

1954 Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Balt MD public schools

1954 Gale Norton, American Public Servant

1954 Mike McCurry, American Public Servant

1953 Douglas Feith, American Public Servant

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

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

1950 Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

1949 Ann Veneman, American Public Servant

1949 Joseph C. Wilson, 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

1946 Hans Frank, German Public Servant

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

1946 Gary Bauer, American Public Servant

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 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 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

1938 Porter Goss, American 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 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

1931 Charles W. Colson, Public Servant

1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory

1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew

1929 James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1973-75

1928 G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records

1927 Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

1927 Robert Bork, American Public Servant

1927 William E. Simon, 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 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant

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

1926 Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Public Servant

1924 Alexander Haig, Pennsylvania, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-82, General

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 Stewart L. Udall, Public Servant

1920 George Schultz, American 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 W. Mark Felt, American Public Servant

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 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 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 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

1869 Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

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 Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)

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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