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 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 hr 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 (24 hr news) 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 German DR
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 PM 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
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
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 Col-gen 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 sect-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 US Air Mail service begins (New York City to SF)
1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC
1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit 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 US 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 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 min 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
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st U.S. Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
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 US 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 milt 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
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 NY Gov 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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