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2004 Sam Dash, lawyer, Senate counsel during Watergate, dies at 79

2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate

1999 Senate acquits President Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinski case

1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case

1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee

1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

1996 U.S. Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage

1996 Bob Dole, Sen-R-KS, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president

1995 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)

1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood

1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate

1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6%

1991 Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination

1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft

1990 U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court

1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court

1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter

1989 U.S. Senate impeaches U.S. District Judge Alcee L Hastings

1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary

1988 Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US

1988 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate

1988 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows

1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes

1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles

1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court

1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination

1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in October by senate

1986 U.S. Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

1986 Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

1986 Senate joins House of Representatives voting for sweeping tax reforms

1986 U.S. Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice

1986 U.S. Senate votes for SDI-project, Star Wars

1986 U.S. Senate approves tax reform

1986 Regular TV coverage of U.S. Senate sessions begins

1986 U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later

1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings

1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile

1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general

1984 U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors

1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools

1983 Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday

1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote

1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)

1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor

1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism

1981 Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)

1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999

1978 U.S. Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty

1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat

1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate

1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP

1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee

1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

1973 Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate

1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court

1967 U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

1967 U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds

1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate

1965 House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop

1965 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race

1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary

1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and U.S.S.R. limit nuclear testing

1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations

1962 Senate rejects medicare for aged

1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows

1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons

1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1959 U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood

1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites

1954 U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute"

1954 U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began

1953 U.S. Senate rejects China PR membership to U.N.

1952 U.S. senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan

1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates

1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)

1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions

1946 Filibuster in U.S. Senate kills FEPC bill

1945 Senate approves U.S. participation in UN

1945 U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2

1941 U.S. Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to brig-general

1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)

1937 Senate rejects Franklin D.. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)

1933 George John Mitchell, Sen-D-ME, 1980-94/Senate Whip 1989-

1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate

1933 U.S. Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition

1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France

1926 U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court

1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal

1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent

1923 U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague

1922 Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate

1920 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1920 U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1919 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)

1919 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill

1916 U.S. Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I

1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo

1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor

1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate

1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin

1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1898 U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii

1893 Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

1887 U.S. Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor

1884 U.S. Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo

1882 U.S. Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross

1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate

1878 U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage

1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate

1869 Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate

1868 By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson

1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

1868 U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson

1856 Violence in Senate, South Carolina rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner

1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate

1845 1st time, U.S. Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto

1841 1st continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1837 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of U.S.

1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)

1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate

1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate

1804 Senate and Tribune declare Napolean leader of France

1803 U.S. Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase

1794 U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin

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

1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session

1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope

68 Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba



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