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General Assembly organized by former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, is boycotted by the United States, Jordan and Canada 1977 Event Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City) 1966 Event Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball 1959 Event AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston 1953 Event U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling 1952 Event 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) 1950 Event Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1947 Event Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 1945 Event Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off 1945 Event Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan 1941 Event Football Writers Association of America organized 1941 Event Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California 1939 Event NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund 1938 Event Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game 1937 Birthday Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner 1932 Event Reconstruction Finance Corp organized 1930 Event 1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas 1924 Event History of Science Society organized at Boston 1922 Event Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 Event U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws 1920 Event Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago 1919 Event Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks 1919 Event Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris) 1918 Death Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 1915 Event Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati 1904 Event National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1903 Event Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 1901 Event U.S. Steel Corp organized under J. P. Morgan 1900 Event American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis 1898 Event Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital 1897 Birthday Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player and organized Japanese baseball 1895 Event National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati 1892 Event American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts 1891 Event National Forest Service organized 1890 Event 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) 1889 Event American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia 1888 Event 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona 1887 Event American Trotting Association organized in Detroit 1887 Event Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 1886 Event Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized 1885 Event U.S. Salvation Army officially organized 1883 Event American Anti-Vivisection Society organized in Philadelphia 1882 Event Telegraph Hill RR Co organized 1882 Event Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey 1882 Event Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust 1879 Event Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill 1878 Event 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines 1876 Event American Library Association organized in Philadelphia 1875 Event Natives Sons of the West organized 1875 Event National Bowling Association organized in New York City 1872 Event SF Bar Association organized 1872 Event California Stock Exchange Board organized 1871 Event National Rifle Association organized in New York City 1871 Event National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 1869 Event Hawaiian YMCA organized 1868 Event American Philological Association organized in NY 1867 Event Grange organized to protect farm interests 1867 Birthday Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service 1867 Birthday Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co 1863 Event Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 1862 Event North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF 1860 Event Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time 1858 Event John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry 1857 Event American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City) 1857 Event San Francisco Water Works organized 1857 Event Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized 1856 Birthday Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration 1856 Event 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized 1854 Event Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisconsin 1853 Event Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory 1852 Event 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized 1851 Birthday Daniel Carter Beard, U.S., organized 1st boy scout troop 1850 Event Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized 1850 Event Empire Engine Company No 1 organized 1847 Event American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1845 Event 1st baseball team is organized 1844 Event 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club 1838 Event Iowa Territory is organized 1834 Event 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) 1833 Event New York Anti-Slavery Society organized 1831 Event 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn 1821 Event College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st U.S. pharmacy college 1820 Event 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone) 1819 Event Territory of Arkansas organized 1816 Event American Bible Society organized in New York 1810 Event 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 1804 Death Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies 1800 Event Indiana Territory organized 1798 Event Mississippi Territory organized 1793 Event Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized 1785 Event Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1775 Event Continental Navy organized with 7 ships 1774 Event Minute Men organized in colonies 1769 Birthday William Smith, geologist, Strata Identified by Organized Fossils 1748 Event United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized 1676 Event 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
