2005 London's transit system is bombed by terrorists, 56 deaths, 700 injured
1996 TV industry execs agree to adopt a ratings system
1996 Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79
1992 Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis
1988 New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1987 Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
1986 New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
1984 1st planet outside our solar system discovered
1984 AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies
1983 Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1982 WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
1982 MTA launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the New York City subway system
1982 TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul New York City subway system
1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1978 EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
1978 Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
1971 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1971 After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1968 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
1967 International Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1966 Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80
1963 U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan
1961 British government begins decimal coin system
1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1950 NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense and defense)
1946 New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1945 Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System
1944 Millie Jackson, born in Thompson, Georgia, model/singer, Get it out 'cha system
1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system
1938 Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1937 U.S. Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York
1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate
1933 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
1933 Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1928 President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system
1925 Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted
1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens
1913 Wilbur J. Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System
1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay
1902 James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1899 Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City)
1895 Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer, Milky Way system
1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
1888 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
1886 Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing
1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system
1880 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1872 Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1871 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1859 Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains
1858 Canada begins using decimal currency system
1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1853 Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1851 Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1849 William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system
1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1840 Penny Post mail system is starts
1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
1824 John Kerr, System physicist, electro-visually Kerr-effect
1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1809 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind
1799 Metric system established in France
1794 James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
1794 Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist, System mycologicum
1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1790 U.S. Patent system forms
1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system
1786 Congress adopts silver dollar and decimal system of money
1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1688 Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70?
1578 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1500 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
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