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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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