2013 Event A cross-party royal charter allowing for the regulation of the British press is granted by the UK Privy Council despite a last-minute court challenge by the newspaper industry 2013 Event The Privy Council rejects proposals for a Royal Charter for self-regulation of the British Press 1985 Event 248 U.S. soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash 1985 Event Mauritania's new constitutional charter published 1974 Event Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims 1972 Event Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die 1966 Event USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 1963 Event Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen 1955 Event Freedom Charter signed in South Africa 1948 Event Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia 1945 Event Ratification of United Nations Charter completed 1945 Event U.N. charter comes into effect 1945 Event President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter 1945 Event U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2 1945 Event Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept United Nations Charter 1945 Event U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF 1945 Event Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt 1943 Event Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League 1941 Event 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter 1941 Event Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1940 Event British Council receives British Charter 1932 Event Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter 1916 Event Boys Scouts of America receives congressional charter 1915 Event Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga 1909 Event Bristol University granted Royal Charter 1898 Event San Francisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities 1894 Event Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1888 Event Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company 1886 Event George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1863 Event Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Event Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1859 Event Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die 1844 Event University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana 1815 Event New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens) 1769 Event Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter 1749 Event George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley 1746 Event Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter 1732 Event Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe 1701 Event William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges 1694 Event Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament 1693 Event Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va 1691 Event New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth 1691 Event Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 1684 Event King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1681 Event King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 1664 Event Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1663 Event King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island 1663 Event King Charles II signs Carolina Charter 1663 Event King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company 1662 Event Royal charter granted Connecticut 1633 Event Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore 1629 Event England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1621 Event Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) 1553 Event Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter 1519 Event Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast 1312 Death Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies 1312 Event Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg
