2015 Event The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has banned 11 people after an ethics investigation; the banned officials have recently or previously been indicted for corruption by the U.S. Justice Department 2014 Event A long-delayed review of the Keystone XL Pipeline is completed by the U.S. State Department; it concluded the pipeline would not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions 2014 Event Retailer J.C. Penney announces plans to restore profits by cutting 2,000 jobs and close 33 of its 1,100 mid-market department stores 2014 Event A measles outbreak is declared in Metro Manila; the Philippine Department of Health reports 1,724 cases as of December 14, and 71 people in one hospital alone died in 2013 2013 Event JPMorgan Chase tentatively settles on paying $13 billion to the U.S. Department of Justice for its role in selling bad mortgage loans to investors, which added to the Suprime mortgage crisis 2013 Event The 350,000 workers furloughed since the recent government shutdown return to work at the Department of Defense 2013 Event An antitrust lawsuit brought on by the U.S. Department of Justice and six states is filed to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways 2013 Event The U.S. State Department evacuates staff from the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan due to threats; most officials were moved to the city of Islamabad 2013 Event According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities 2013 Event JPMorgan reveals it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, mostly from its mortgage department, in the next two years 2012 Event The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation 2012 Event The U.S. State Department states the U.N. Secretary-General's decision to attend the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement summit is 'strange' and 'not a good signal' 2012 Event Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer 2012 Event The U.S. Department of Defense produces new guidelines that remove restrictions on the use of women in combat 2011 Event An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981 2011 Event New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest 2011 Event According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 2010 greenhouse gas levels are higher than a worst case scenario set by climate experts in 2007 2011 Event The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence 2011 Event The U.S. Department of Justice admits and defends it has probed WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, dismissing privacy and freedom of speech concerns 2011 Event The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China 2010 Event The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research 2009 Event U.S. Commerce Department imposes high anti-dumping tariffs up to 99% on imports of Chinese tubular goods 1997 Event U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 1997 Death Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71 1995 Event After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close 1995 Event New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization 1994 Event Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House 1994 Event Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces 1993 Event Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79 1993 Event Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years 1992 Event Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City 1992 Event Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores 1992 Event New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores 1989 Death Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88 1989 Event Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1988 Event Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London 1987 Event U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II 1986 Event Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money 1982 Event Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM 1980 Event U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination 1980 Event Department of Health and Human Services begins operation 1979 Event President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education 1979 Event Congress' final approval to create Department of Education 1978 Event Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female 1977 Event Department Of Energy established 1977 Event President Carter establishes Department of Energy 1975 Event Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department 1975 Event U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species 1973 Event Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) 1972 Event 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan) 1969 Event San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones 1968 Event Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms 1967 Event At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1967 Event Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 1966 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT) 1965 Event House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop 1964 Event San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated 1962 Event Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools 1960 Event San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard 1953 Event 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois 1953 Event Department of Health, Education and Welfare created 1953 Event Department of Health, Education and Welfare established 1950 Event Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists 1950 Event NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 1949 Event National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense 1948 Event U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit 1948 Event Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury 1947 Event U.S. Department of Defense forms 1947 Event Department of Defense forms 1947 Event U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense 1947 Event U.S. Department of Army created 1944 Event 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store 1941 Event War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets 1938 Event Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university 1934 Event Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive 1934 Birthday Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health 1934 Birthday Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health 1934 Birthday David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science 1931 Birthday Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport 1929 Birthday Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment 1927 Birthday Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department 1926 Birthday Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul 1923 Birthday Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett 1922 Birthday Bernard Kalb, spokesman, State Department, actor, Dave 1918 Event U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor 1916 Event Department of Interior forms National Park Service 1914 Event U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1914 Event Philips installs research department in Eindhoven 1913 Event 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks 1913 Event Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments 1908 Event Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice 1904 Birthday Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin 1903 Event U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms 1901 Birthday Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet 1901 Event Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce 1893 Event Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture 1891 Event Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created 1890 Event 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation 1888 Event Congress creates Department of Labor 1884 Birthday Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44 1882 Event 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City) 1879 Event U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1875 Birthday James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney 1872 Event Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens 1870 Event Congress creates Department of Justice 1867 Event U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education 1866 Event Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies 1866 Event U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel 1865 Event Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department 1864 Event Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball 1864 Event General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia 1863 Event War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops 1863 Event War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops 1862 Event Department of Agriculture created 1861 Event War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers 1861 Event Department of Navy of Confederacy forms 1858 Event Macy's Department store opens in New York City 1850 Event Hawaiian Fire Department established 1849 Event Home Department (Interior Department), forms 1849 Event U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress 1848 Event Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store 1848 Event 1st department store opens 1847 Event Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1838 Birthday John Wanamaker, merchant, Wanamakers Department Store 1834 Birthday Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner, Field Department Store 1824 Event U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1798 Event Department of Navy forms 1796 Event U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport 1789 Event U.S. War Department established a regular army 1789 Event Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department 1789 Event Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State 1789 Event U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress 1789 Event Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service 1789 Event Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
