2014 Event Reports of delays at U.S. Veterans Administration facilities has created temporary unity in Congress as lawmakers seek to address the scandal; thousands of veterans have waited at least three months to see a doctor; many have never been seen at all 2014 Event President Obama awards 24 Medals of Honor to veterans originally overlooked due to ethnic or racial bias 2012 Event Security chief Zhou Yongkang is asked to be removed by a group of Chinese Communist Party veterans 1996 Event 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia 1989 Event Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1987 Event Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America 1985 Event War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" 1984 Event Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed 1982 Event Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1976 Event 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia 1974 Event Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149) 1973 Event Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 1971 Event 1st baseball game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 1959 Birthday Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art 1941 Event Jewish veterans honor their dead 1932 Event Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die 1930 Event U.S. Veterans Administration forms 1930 Event Veterans Administration created 1866 Event 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) 1865 Event Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
