2005 Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA
1998 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
1997 Kathy Acker, writer, Bodies of Work: Essays, dies at 54
1997 Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1995 NBA referees return to work after striking
1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils
1983 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart
1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1977 RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1967 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65
1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women
1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
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 Greg Ham, Australia, rock saxophonist/flutist, Men At Work
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 Colin Hay, born in Scotland, rock vocalist, Men At Work
1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1947 Benelux agress to work related issues
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R.
1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.
1945 Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
1944 Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City
1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet, Impossible Work
1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work
1942 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1936 40 hour work week law approved
1935 SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1935 Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1933 German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work
1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1930 Phillipo Seed, social work academic
1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 Gerrit A. Kooy, Dutch sociologist, Apartheid and work in South Africa
1925 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52
1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1923 U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1920 David Waller, actor, Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word
1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1917 U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco
1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day
1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
1905 9 hour work day for diamond miners
1901 John Wesley Work, composer
1900 After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens
1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
1880 Damon Runyon, U.S. journalist and writer, Guys and Dolls-based on his work
1880 Frederick Jerome Work, composer
1879 Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1873 John Wesley Work, composer
1870 Netherlands and Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1866 Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1864 Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911
1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco
1842 Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
1842 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win
1832 Henry Clay Work, composer
1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
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