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1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

1996 New York Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask

1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)

1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing

1962 Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist, I Wear My Sunglasses at Night

1959 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)

1958 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets

1956 AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game

1955 Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform

1954 WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting

1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings

1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

1942 Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David

1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star

1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star

1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"

1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France

1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars

1941 Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars

1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star

1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star

1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z

1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps

1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets

1939 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star

1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David

1938 Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David

1929 New York Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers

1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

1907 New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards

1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers

1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge

1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame

1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb

1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps


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