2014 Event Three U.S. states have now established quarantine rules for travelers arriving from West Africa who have had contact with Ebola victims; Illinois is the latest to implement the policy, following the lead of New York and New Jersey 2014 Event Online business networking site LinkedIn will be expanding its presence in Singapore's central business district; the company established headquarters in Singapore in 2011 and sees the prime location as a means to attract the best talent 2013 Event A Pontifical Commission is established by Pope Francise to investigate current accounting practices and implement new strategies for greater fiscal transparency and fiscal responsibility among all Vatican offices 2013 Event The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes 2012 Event A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps 1989 Event Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1985 Event Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) 1980 Event CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1979 Event European Monetary System is established, ECU created 1979 Event Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established 1978 Event Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established 1977 Event Department Of Energy established 1977 Event Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague 1976 Event Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi 1975 Event Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established 1971 Event Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established 1970 Event Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established 1968 Event Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands 1967 Event People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established 1966 Event Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established 1965 Event Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel 1964 Event ESRO established, European Space Research Organization 1963 Event SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien 1960 Event Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park 1959 Event U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established 1958 Event Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established 1955 Event West Europe Union established 1954 Event U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established 1953 Event Department of Health, Education and Welfare established 1950 Event U.N. World Meteorological Organization established 1947 Event NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established 1946 Event 4th French republic established 1946 Event U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1946 Event Canadian Library Association established 1946 Event Italian Republic established 1945 Event International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded 1945 Event Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established 1945 Event Foundation 1940-45 established 1945 Event ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam 1944 Event Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1941 Birthday Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1941 Event Fair Employment Practices Commission established 1941 Event Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton 1940 Event Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1939 Event Federal Hall National Monument established 1938 Event Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established 1938 Event March of Dimes established to fight polio 1937 Event National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1936 Event 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin 1935 Event 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) 1935 Birthday Georg Katzer, born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, German composer, established electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic 1935 Event Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established 1934 Event Securities and Exchange Commission established 1934 Event International Telecommunication Union established 1933 Event CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District 1933 Event German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1933 Event White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established 1933 Birthday Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' 1930 Event Child labor laws established in Belgium 1930 Event George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established 1929 Event Acadia National Park, Maine established 1929 Event Humanist Society established, Hollywood California 1925 Birthday David Bache, born in Worcestershire, England, David Ernest Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, established design company David Bache Associates, created the Land Rover, Series II Land Rover 1925 Event Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska 1925 Birthday Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community 1925 Event Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) 1924 Event Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service 1924 Event Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established 1923 Event 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada 1923 Event Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established 1923 Event Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1922 Event Lehman Caves National Monument established 1921 Event Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR 1920 Event 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1920 Event League of Nations established 1919 Event Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) 1919 Event KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) 1919 Event Belorussian SSR established 1918 Event Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established 1918 Event Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 1917 Death Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1917 Event Belgium Council of Flanders established 1915 Event Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established 1915 Event Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1912 Event Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1912 Event French protectorate in Morocco established 1911 Event Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam 1909 Event 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) 1909 Event 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1908 Event Pinnacles National Monument, California established 1908 Event Muir Woods National Monument, California established 1907 Event World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army 1905 Birthday Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press 1903 Event 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida 1903 Event Wind Cave National Park, SD established 1901 Event Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1901 Event Commonwealth of Australia established 1900 Event Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup 1900 Event British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established 1899 Event Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels 1898 Event City of New York established 1897 Event Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club) 1895 Event Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1894 Event Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday 1888 Event English Football League established 1888 Event Dutch Heidemaatschappij established 1887 Event Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 1884 Event Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude 1879 Event Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established 1876 Event U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts 1876 Event Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand 1875 Event Universal Postal Union established 1874 Birthday Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1868 Birthday Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame 1867 Event 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established 1865 Event Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established 1865 Event NV Suriname Bank established 1863 Event Territory of Idaho established 1862 Event U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1861 Event Anaheim Post Office established 1860 Birthday Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement 1860 Event American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1856 Event Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery 1854 Event Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute) 1852 Event 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor 1852 Birthday William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school 1850 Event Hawaiian Fire Department established 1850 Event Hawaiian post office established 1850 Event San Francisco County Government established 1849 Event U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress 1848 Event 2nd republic established in France 1848 Event 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established 1847 Event 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland 1841 Death Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy 1838 Event Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 1833 Event Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established 1824 Event Bureau of Indian Affairs established 1815 Event World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1814 Event Netherlands Bank established 1809 Event Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established 1805 Event Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1802 Event U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) 1801 Event United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established 1800 Event Washington D.C. established as capital of US 1799 Event Metric system established in France 1795 Event Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1794 Event U.S. Post Office established 1791 Event 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania 1789 Event U.S. War Department established a regular army 1789 Event U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress 1789 Event U.S. Post Office established 1784 Event Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK 1784 Event 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia 1779 Event U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1778 Birthday Catherine McAuley, born in Dublin, Ireland, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children 1770 Event General Church of New Jerusalem established 1706 Event Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established 1675 Event Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1664 Event New Jersey established 1652 Event Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established 1635 Event French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean 1629 Event 1st commercial fishery established 1609 Event Wisselbank of Amsterdam established 1607 Event 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 1594 Event Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies 1565 Event Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established 1429 Event Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain 1404 Event Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established 1397 Event Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway 1326 Event Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi 930 Event World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
