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1995 Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864

1995 Bermuda begins using new area code 441

1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423

1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562

1995 Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540

1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941

1995 North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970

1995 Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520

1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261

1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334

1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360

1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song

1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics

1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"

1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing

1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids

1989 New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules

1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981

1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

1984 U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas

1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'

1982 In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH

1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar

1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"

1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17

1964 Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn

1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes

1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area

1959 Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark

1950 U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea

1946 New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line

1942 Adm Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map

1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

1940 German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names

1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants

1937 Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)

1937 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars

1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches

1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol

1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City

1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID

1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud

1920 AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it

1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park

1899 U.S. Congress begins using voting machines

1897 N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"

1886 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine

1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

1858 Canada begins using decimal currency system

1849 Stephen C. Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California

1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)

1825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England

1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve

1700 Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar

1583 Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar

1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic



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