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2012 Event - A temporary fix to the Internet Doomsday virus created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation expires, causing thousands of computer users across the globe to lose Internet access

2012 Event - The U.S. Census Bureau reports the world now has 7 billion people

2011 Event - In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants

2002 Death - Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38

1998 Event - U.S. Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733

1996 Death - Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36

1993 Death - Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88

1992 Death - Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies

1991 Event - Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census

1988 Death - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73

1987 Death - Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77

1981 Death - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered

1977 Death - John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80

1966 Birthday - Marc Bureau, Trois Rivieres, NHL center, Montreal Canadiens

1959 Birthday - Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau

1955 Death - Henry W. Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies

1951 Event - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1944 Event - RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague

1943 Death - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Event - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau

1943 Event - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau

1943 Event - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau

1939 Death - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60

1934 Birthday - Laurence Luckinbill, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, actor, Delphi Bureau, Ike

1930 Event - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City

1922 Event - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics

1915 Birthday - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head, Washington, Paris

1913 Birthday - W. Mark Felt, born in Idaho, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat"

1911 Birthday - Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau

1910 Event - U.S. Bureau of Mines forms

1909 Birthday - Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1961-67

1903 Event - Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam

1902 Event - Census Bureau forms

1901 Event - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce

1894 Event - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration

1892 Death - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83

1890 Event - Congress creates Weather Bureau

1878 Birthday - Grace Abbott, Grand Island, Nebraska, social worker, US Children Bureau

1875 Event - International Bureau of Weights and Measures forms by treaty

1870 Event - U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)

1868 Birthday - Henry W. Methorst, lawyer/director, Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics

1865 Event - Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1865 Event - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established

1865 Event - Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks

1865 Event - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865

1863 Event - War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops

1862 Event - U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation

1862 Event - Congress forms U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing

1838 Birthday - Cleveland Abbe, U.S., meteorologist, Father of Weather Bureau

1824 Event - Bureau of Indian Affairs established

1824 Event - U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1808 Birthday - Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau

1650 Event - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)

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