2015 Event The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reveals that hackers who stole taxpayer data in May had accessed additional databases, adding 220,000 to the previous estimate of 114,000 taxpayers who have had their information compromised 2015 Event Hackers steal personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns; the data can be used to file tax refund claims and commit identity theft 2015 Event Apple will begin a web TV service in September, carrying broadcast networks such as CBS, Fox and ABC; the service will offer 25 channels and will likely cost less than current cable television packages 2015 Event The U.S. Internal Revenue Service warns of an increase in taxpayer phone scams threatening victims unless they pay a given amount with a debit or prepaid credit card; over 366,000 people have been swindled of over $15 million since 2013 2014 Event Sony Corporation's gaming service is back online after a hacking attack disrupted its PlayStation Network; the company is probing whether this incident is related to the attack on its Sony Pictures Division earlier this month 2014 Event Ukraine exchanges 222 rebel prisoners for 150 Ukrainian soldiers held by separatist forces; for security reasons, the nation also blockades Crimea, the region annexed by Russia, by stopping bus and train service to and from the area 2014 Event Private car scheduling service Uber has been meeting with opposition as it rapidly expands into cities around the world; complaints range from insufficient driver background checks to violation of rules protecting existing transportation services 2014 Event Taxi service company Uber expands its presence in Latin America by partnering with Carlos Slim's cell phone company America Movil to place the Uber app on mobil phones throughout Mexico 2014 Event U.S. President Barack Obama states his support for 'net neutrality', urging federal lawmakers to regulate internet service providers in a manner similar to utility companies in order to ensure open access to all internet users 2014 Event Broadcasting company CBS is moving to web-based programming by starting a 24-hour news streaming site, offering web access to its network for a monthly fee, and partnering with Sony to provide programs for a web-based TV service 2014 Event Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 2014 Event Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies in a congressional hearing to investigate the recent intrusion of the White House as well as other security breaches under her leadership; Pierson stated that such incidents will not happen again 2014 Event U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces his resignation after six years of service in the Obama Administration; Holder's resignation will take effect upon selection and confirmation of a successor 2014 Event Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is seeking to buy U.S. online rebate service Ebates Shopping.com Inc. for $950 million; in recent years, Rakuten has been making acquisitions to expand its interests outside of Japan 2014 Event Google will be launching a paid subscription-based music service featuring YouTube music video content; the service will be separate from the company's existing subscription music service on Google Play 2014 Event India has put the INS Kolkata into service; the battleship, built locally, is the second to be commissioned this year and signals the nation's intent to update its military in response to concern regarding China's growth 2014 Event Amazon announces its new Kindle Unlimited program, a subscription service providing borrowing rights to a large selection of books for a monthly fee; the service is drawing comparisons to movie rental company Netflix 2014 Event The Federal Communications Commission moves away from the idea of net neutrality, in which all Internet users are able to equally access and view content; the agency instead proposes to allow large companies to pay Internet service providers for access to faster-streaming 'lanes' 2014 Event AT&T adds an unnamed automaker to its list of car manufacturers using the company's wireless service for mobile connectivity on the road; current customers include Volvo, Tesla and General Motors 2014 Event The U.S. Postal Service will soon implement a rate hike in postage, approved last December the price of first-class postage stamps to 49 cents from 46 cents 2013 Event Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan visits the Yasukuni Shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the shrine commemorates those who died while in the service of the Empire of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, which stored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 2013 Event Instagram offers users the ability to upload videos to their service 2013 Event U.S. wireless service provider T-Mobile has its opening day on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol TMUS 2013 Event Canada's Security Intelligence Service believes the presence of Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the country may lead to possible attacks 2013 Event The United Kingdom's bond credit rating is downgraded for the first time in history; Moody's Investor's Service changed the bond credit rating from AAA to AA1 2013 Event The U.S. postal service announces that after August 5, 2013, it will no longer deliver first-class mail on Saturdays 2013 Event Austria holds a national referendum on whether or not to retain its system of conscription for the army and social service for young men; they vote to keep military service compulsory 2012 Event The Republic of Ireland switches off its analog television service at 10:00am 2012 Event A memorial service is held for San Diego chargers' Junior Seau; his #55 will be retired by the team 2012 Event The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service 2012 Event Moody's Investor's Service issues a negative outlook for the credit ratings for Austria, France and the United Kingdom 2011 Event The last nine-megaton B53 warheads, in service since 1962, are disassembled near Amarillo, Texas 2011 Event Google's new social network service, Google+, is released to the general public 2011 Event A recent crash on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway prompts a halt in service and an inspection of all sections of the track 2011 Event Prince Harry of Wales is cleared to return to service in the Afghan War 2011 Event Microsoft announces it plans to purchase Skype, an Internet phone service, for $8.5 billion 2010 Event Russia's Federal Security Service assassinates Magomedali Vagabov, a militant leader reportedly responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings 2009 Event A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 1998 Event Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down02930301 1998 Event Federal rules that the Secret Service must testify in the Lewinsky case 1997 Event Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service 1997 Event America On Line, begins service in Japan 1996 Event HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins 1995 Event CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 1995 Death Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80 1995 Event Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee 1994 Event KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service 1993 Event Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad 1993 Death David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1992 Event FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service 1990 Event 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral 1988 Event Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service 1986 Event 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 Event 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 Event Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service 1982 Event Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle 1981 Event Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo 1980 Event Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women 1980 Event K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF) 1980 Event Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad 1979 Event CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 1979 Event "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1978 Event RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service 1978 Event U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike 1977 Event Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins 1977 Event Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY 1977 Event NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio 1976 Event Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur 1975 Event 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) 1975 Event NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio 1975 Event 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao 1974 Event BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service 1974 Event BART begins regular transbay service 1973 Event BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service 1973 Event Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens 1972 Event Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin 1972 Event BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont 1970 Event Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike 1970 Event Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service 1969 Event Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon 1969 Event 1st Jewish worship service at White House 1968 Event Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala 1967 Event 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records 1967 Event Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue 1967 Event Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted 1967 Birthday Scott Service, U.S. baseball pitcher, Cincinnati Reds 1966 Event Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1965 Event Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service 1964 Death Frank Albertson, actor (Chico and Man, Room Service), dies at 55 1963 Event U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan 1963 Event Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years 1962 Event Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years 1962 Death Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies 1962 Event London trolley buses go out of service 1962 Event Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard 1961 Event Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington 1958 Death Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1958 Event UP and International News Service merge into United Press International 1958 Event 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx 1957 Event Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service 1957 Event President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1957 Birthday Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1957 Event New York City ends trolley car service 1956 Event Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service 1956 Event Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service 1955 Event 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service 1954 Event West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1953 Event American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service 1953 Event 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service 1953 Event 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 1953 Event 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City 1953 Event British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service 1952 Event 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet 1952 Event BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Event 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1950 Event Israeli airline El Al begins service 1949 Birthday Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS 1948 Event Britain's National Health Service Act begins 1947 Event 1st helicopter air mail and express service 1947 Event 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1947 Birthday 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 Birthday Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1946 Event SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis 1946 Birthday Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress, Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service 1946 Birthday 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 Birthday Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist, Holland's secret service 1944 Event M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St 1943 Event British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation 1943 Birthday John Cipollina, San Francisco Cal, rock guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1942 Event Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1942 Death Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed 1942 Event Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized 1942 Birthday Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1941 Event BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 1941 Event United Service Organization, USO, founded 1940 Birthday Dino Valenti, rock guitarist and vocalist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1940 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 1940 Event U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms 1939 Event Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service 1939 Event WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service 1939 Event Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1939 Event Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper 1939 Event Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1939 Event Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service 1939 Event Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1939 Event All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends 1938 Birthday David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service 1938 Event 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) 1937 Event Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Event John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City 1936 Event 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London 1936 Birthday Brian Fuller, commandant, Fire Service College, England 1936 Event ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam 1935 Event Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany 1935 Event 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service 1935 Event Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive 1934 Event TWA began commercial service 1934 Event U.S. Information Service opens 1934 Event U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months 1933 Event Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service 1933 Event 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1933 Event U.S. Employment Service created 1933 Birthday Tony Mullett, dir-general, National Criminal Intelligence Service 1933 Birthday Alistair Service, writer/publisher 1933 Event 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service 1932 Birthday David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1931 Event Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) 1930 Event 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began 1930 Event Eastern Airlines begins passenger service 1930 Event Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service 1929 Event Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana 1928 Event Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards 1928 Event Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service 1927 Event Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico 1927 Event 1st U.S. radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" 1927 Event Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London 1926 Event Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service 1926 Event Contract air mail service begins in U.S. 1925 Event 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind 1924 Event 1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York 1924 Event Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, New York City-SF 1924 Event Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service 1923 Event Flying Scotsman goes into service 1923 Event Transcontinental airmail service begins 1922 Event Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service 1922 Event BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House 1922 Event Australian Qantas airways begins service 1922 Birthday Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service 1921 Birthday B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1921 Event 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh 1920 Event U.S. Air Mail service begins (New York City to San Francisco) 1920 Birthday Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1920 Event 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1920 Birthday 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 Event 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 Event 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) 1919 Event 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) 1919 Event 1st U.S. air passenger service starts 1919 Event 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia 1919 Event United Parcel Service forms 1918 Event Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal 1918 Event 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) 1918 Event 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated 1918 Event President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal 1918 Event Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service 1918 Event U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor 1917 Event 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service 1917 Event Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 1917 Event U.S. passes Selective Service act 1916 Event Department of Interior forms National Park Service 1916 Event Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) 1915 Event Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service 1915 Event BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service 1915 Birthday Maurice B. Latey, commentator, BBC World Service 1915 Event Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF) 1914 Birthday 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 Event U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1914 Birthday Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service 1913 Event Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) 1913 Event Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes 1913 Birthday Dane Clark, Brooklyn, actor, Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason 1910 Event 1st airship in service "Germany" 1910 Birthday Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service 1909 Event 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City 1908 Birthday Paul Lavalle, born in Beacon, New York, bandleader, Cities Service Band of America 1907 Event United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle 1906 Birthday Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 1905 Event U.S. Forest Service forms 1904 Event 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas) 1902 Death Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1900 Event Associated Press News Service forms in New York 1897 Event 1st British bus service opens 1896 Event William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in New York City 1895 Event Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1891 Event National Forest Service organized 1889 Event Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1889 Event Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF 1888 Birthday James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service 1886 Event Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award 1885 Event Special delivery mail service begins in US 1883 Event Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 1883 Event Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system 1881 Event World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1878 Event California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service 1874 Birthday Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee 1874 Birthday Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1873 Event Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 1873 Event San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service 1871 Event Congress establishes the civil service system 1871 Event 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873) 1870 Event 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins 1870 Event U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service 1867 Birthday Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service 1867 Event 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City 1866 Death George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies 1866 Event 1st ambulance goes into service 1865 Event Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department 1865 Event U.S. Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service 1864 Event Combination rail and ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda 1864 Event President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1863 Event President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1862 Event 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service 1862 Event Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut 1860 Event U.S. Secret Service created 1859 Event 1st Pullman sleeping car in service 1858 Event William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1853 Event 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in U.S. enters service 1849 Event 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad) 1849 Event 1st regular steamboat service to California starts 1830 Event 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1830 Event 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 1829 Event "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service 1818 Event Congress approves 1st pensions for government service 1817 Event Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1816 Birthday Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service 1807 Event 1st railway passenger service began in England 1800 Event 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore 1798 Event U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized 1792 Event U.S. postal service created; postage 6 cents -12 cents, depending on distance 1791 Event Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in Revenue Cutter Service 1790 Event U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service 1790 Event Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created 1789 Event Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service 1748 Event Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service 1691 Event Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1673 Event Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated 1672 Event New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston 1655 Event New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service 1601 Event Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto 1585 Event English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I 1464 Event French King Louis XI forms postal service
