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2005 London's transit system is bombed by terrorists, 56 deaths, 700 injured

1996 Television industry executives 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 Metropolitan Transportation Authority 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

1975 Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies

1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 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"

1969 Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system

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 Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile 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 Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space 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)

1928 Ezra Sims, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer of microtonal music, Joseph Maneri adopted his system of notation, composed in quarter tones, received Guggenheim Fellowship

1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system

1925 Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted

1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

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

1910 Josef Tal, born in Pinne, Poland, born Joseph Gruenthal, composer, pianist, played hard with Palestine Orchestra, developed notational system for computer-generated compositions at Hebrew University

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 Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals

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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