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Reserve

1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve 1982 Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies 1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes 1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause 1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause 1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve 1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve 1927 Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman 1926 Alan Greenspan, economist and presidential advisor, Federal Reserve Bank 1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair 1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps 1916 Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve 1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law 1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System 1906 William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank, 1951-70 1904 Arthur F. Burns, economist/chairman, Federal Reserve Board 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause 1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players 1878 Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens

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