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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