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2009 A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
1998 Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down02930301 1998 Federal rules that the Secret Service must testify in the Lewinsky case 1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service 1997 America On Line, begins service in Japan 1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins 1995 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 1995 Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80 1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee 1994 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service 1993 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad 1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service 1990 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral 1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service 1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial 1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service 1982 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle 1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo 1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women 1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF) 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad 1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service 1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike 1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins 1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY 1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio 1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur 1975 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) 1975 NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio 1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao 1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service 1974 BART begins regular transbay service 1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service 1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont 1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike 1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service 1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon 1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House 1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala 1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records 1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue 1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted 1967 Scott Service, U.S. baseball pitcher, Cincinnati Reds 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service 1964 Frank Albertson, actor (Chico and Man, Room Service), dies at 55 1963 U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years 1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years 1962 Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies 1962 London trolley buses go out of service 1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard 1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington 1958 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx 1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service 1957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1957 Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1957 New York City ends trolley car service 1956 Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service 1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service 1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service 1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service 1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service 1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 1953 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City 1953 British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service 1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet 1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) 1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service 1949 Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS 1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins 1947 1st helicopter air mail and express service 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1947 John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1946 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis 1946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress, Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service 1946 Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service 1945 Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist, Holland's secret service 1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St 1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation 1943 John Cipollina, San Francisco Cal, rock guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1942 Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed 1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized 1942 Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 1941 United Service Organization, USO, founded 1940 Dino Valenti, rock guitarist and vocalist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 1940 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms 1939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper 1939 Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service 1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends 1938 David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service 1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City 1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London 1936 Brian Fuller, commandant, Fire Service College, England 1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam 1935 Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany 1935 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service 1935 Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive 1934 TWA began commercial service 1934 U.S. Information Service opens 1934 U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months 1933 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service 1933 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1933 U.S. Employment Service created 1933 Tony Mullett, dir-general, National Criminal Intelligence Service 1933 Alistair Service, writer/publisher 1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service 1932 David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) 1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began 1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service 1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service 1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana 1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards 1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service 1927 Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico 1927 1st U.S. radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" 1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service 1926 Contract air mail service begins in U.S. 1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind 1924 1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York 1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, New York City-SF 1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service 1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins 1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service 1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House 1922 Australian Qantas airways begins service 1922 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service 1921 B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh 1920 U.S. Air Mail service begins (New York City to San Francisco) 1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1920 Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service 1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) 1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) 1919 1st U.S. air passenger service starts 1919 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia 1919 United Parcel Service forms 1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal 1918 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) 1918 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated 1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal 1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service 1918 U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor 1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 1917 U.S. passes Selective Service act 1916 Department of Interior forms National Park Service 1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) 1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service 1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service 1915 Maurice B. Latey, commentator, BBC World Service 1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF) 1914 Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front 1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1914 Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service 1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) 1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes 1913 Dane Clark, Brooklyn, actor, Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason 1910 1st airship in service "Germany" 1910 Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service 1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City 1908 Paul Lavalle, born in Beacon, New York, bandleader, Cities Service Band of America 1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle 1906 Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 1905 U.S. Forest Service forms 1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas) 1902 Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York 1897 1st British bus service opens 1896 William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in New York City 1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1891 National Forest Service organized 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF 1888 James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service 1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US 1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system 1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1878 California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service 1874 Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee 1874 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 1873 San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system 1871 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873) 1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins 1870 U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service 1867 Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service 1867 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City 1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies 1866 1st ambulance goes into service 1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department 1865 U.S. Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service 1864 Combination rail and ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda 1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service 1862 Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut 1860 U.S. Secret Service created 1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service 1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1853 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in U.S. enters service 1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad) 1849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts 1830 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service 1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service 1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1816 Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service 1807 1st railway passenger service began in England 1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore 1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized 1792 U.S. postal service created; postage 6 cents -12 cents, depending on distance 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in Revenue Cutter Service 1790 U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service 1790 Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created 1789 Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service 1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1673 Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated 1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston 1655 New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service 1601 Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto 1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I 1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service |
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