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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 Baltimore is signed 1995 Davie Cooper, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991, dies at 39 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. 1963 Jose Oquendo, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Jose Manuel Roberto Guillermo Contreras Oquendo, baseball player, infielder, coach, signed with New York Mets at age fifteen, member, St. Louis Cardinals, played 1987 World Series, record for fewest second baseman errors, 1990 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 1956 Davie Cooper, born in Hamilton, Scotland, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991 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 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 Chris Farlowe, born in North London, England, John Henry Deighton, rocker, singer, soul, rhythm and blues, jazz rock, signed with Columbia and Immediate, once used pseudonym 'Little Joe Cook' 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 1929 Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, born John Marshall Alexander, Jr., singer, member of the B.B. King band, signed to Duke Records, toured with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton 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 - U.S 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 Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1899 U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico 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 Declaration of Independence, 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 Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 1813 Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67 1813 Robert R Livingston, U.S. diplomat signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 66 1813 George Clymer, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 73 1811 Samuel Chase, U.S. judge signed Declaration 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 Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79 1804 Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge signed Declaration 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 Declaration of Independence, 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 and judge, signed Declaration of Independence, 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 Declaration 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 Declaration of Independence, 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 Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence 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 Declaration of Independence 1739 George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence 1737 Charles Carroll, signed Declaration of Independence 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 Declaration 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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