2015 Event The U.S. Navy announces that it will allow women to undergo its intensive 6-month SEAL training; female candidates who pass the course will be able to serve on SEAL teams 2014 Event The World Trade Organization upheld its November decision to continue banning European imports of seal products on the grounds of concern for the suffering of the hunted animals; the WTO is also reexamining its exception for indigenous hunters 1997 Event 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682 1996 Event 26th Easter Seal Telethon 1993 Death Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58 1993 Event 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises 1992 Event 22nd Easter Seal Telethon 1990 Event 20th Easter Seal Telethon 1989 Event 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 1988 Event 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000 1987 Event 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 1986 Death Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76 1986 Event 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 1985 Event 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000 1984 Event 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 1983 Event 13th Easter Seal Telethon 1982 Event 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000 1963 Birthday Seal, English vocalist/songwriter, Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose 1946 Birthday Russ Thacker, born in Washington D.C., producer, Golden Seal 1913 Event 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) 1913 Death Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic) 1902 Event Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco 1898 Birthday Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet, 5th Seal 1892 Event Britian and U.S. sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea 1892 Event Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) 1887 Event Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco 1865 Event James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF 1862 Event Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal 1861 Birthday Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker, 1st christmas seal drive, 1907 1859 Event Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) 1782 Event Great Seal of U.S. used for 1st time 1782 Event Congress approves Great Seal of U.S. and eagle as it's symbol 1690 Event Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
