1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
1995 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1991 Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 Revised concordat between Italy and Vatican signed
1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1973 Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R.
1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1955 Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa
1955 Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq and Turkey signed
1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance
1954 Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
1951 Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1951 International Cheese treaty signed
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)
1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada
1948 Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia
1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed
1947 WW II peace treaties signed
1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama
1945 U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1941 Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain
1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1933 Federal Securities Act signed
1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1926 Russia and Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
1926 Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
1926 French and German trade agreement signed
1925 Treaty of Locarno signed
1925 Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
1925 German-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 British-German trade agreement signed
1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 French-German trade agreement signed
1924 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1924 British-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
1922 Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets PR and Guam
1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England
1884 British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
1871 German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas
1864 Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.
1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49 degrees N
1840 Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain and Maoris of New Zealand
1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1832 Charles Carroll, large landowner/signed Decl of Ind, dies at 95
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1820 William Ellery, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 92
1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1814 Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1813 Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67
1813 George Clymer, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 73
1811 Samuel Chase, U.S. judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1806 George Wythe, U.S. attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79
1804 Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62
1802 Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)
1800 Edward Rutledge, U.S. attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 50
1798 Lewis Morris, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 71
1796 Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64
1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1795 Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65
1794 Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1794 Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62
1788 John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
1787 Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44
1783 Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)
1781 Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50
1779 John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68
1778 1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1778 Philip Livingston, U.S. merchant (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 62
1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind
1742 William Hooper, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence
1741 John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence
1741 Samuel Chase, judge, signed Decl of Ind
1739 George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Decl of, Indiana, Constitution
1737 Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind
1734 Robert Morris, merchant, signed Declaration of Independence
1732 Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer, signed Declaration of Independence
1731 William Williams, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence
1730 George Ross, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence
1726 Oliver Wolcott, Ct-Gov, /signed Decl of Independence
1726 Lewis Morris, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence
1726 Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
1724 Lyman Hall, U.S. physician, signed Declaration of Independence
1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1716 Philip Livingston, merchant, signed Declaration of Independence
1707 Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island signed Declaration of Independence
1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, world's oldest, signed in London
1360 Treaty of Bretigny signed by English and French
1305 French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
1153 Treaty of Wallingford signed
855 Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
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