1998 Week of Fed Cup
1998 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech
1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1992 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1991 New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated
1990 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1989 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
1987 "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS
1986 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1983 1st National Coin Week begins
1982 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982 Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1979 Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
1978 TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
1975 Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
1972 John and Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
1972 John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1967 Tabitha Soren, born in San Antonio, Texas, MTV reporter, This Week in Rock
1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1963 American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday
1962 U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week and more wages
1953 WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
1947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 Meat rationed in U.S. (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's
1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Mireille Darc, Toulo,n France, actor, Week End, Hurried Man
1939 David Frost, born in Tenterdon, England, TV host, That Was the Week That Was
1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1936 40 hour work week law approved
1934 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author, Drowned Ammet, Witch Week
1933 Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week
1932 Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1928 Tom Lehrer, parody and folk singer, That Was The Week That Was
1927 Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster, NBC Baseball Game of the Week
1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1921 Frankie Howerd, actor, That Was The Week That Was, Runaway Bus
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.
1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week
1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1913 Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
1913 Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1907 Richard Harkness, Artesian, South Dakota, newscaster, Story of the Week, NBC
1899 British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1879 Frederick G. Melcher, U.S., publisher/editor/founded children book week
1844 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
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