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2013 Event - Parliamentary elections are held in Monaco, with the the Horizon Monaco alliance winning 50.3% of the vote, securing 20 of 24 seats in the country's National Council

2012 Event - The Constitutional Council of France strikes down a plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy, calling the 'supertax' unconstitutional and unfair

2012 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council admits it faces a national crisis amidst and escalation of violence and militia rule

2011 Event - Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack

2011 Event - The EU Council votes; the copyright on sound recordings is extended from 50 to 70 years

2011 Event - The Libyan National Transitional Council will move to Tripoli from Benghazi next week

2011 Event - To avoid further fighting, Libya's Transitional Council extends the deadline to surrender for tribal leaders in Sirte

2011 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council raises concerns about the mass killing of political prisoners by Muammar Gaddafi's government

2011 Event - The Government of Syria is under investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council for alleged human rights violations during the 2011 Syrian uprising

2011 Event - The Chairman of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil announces Muammar Gaddafi's regime has collapsed

2011 Event - New Zealand's City Council in Christchurch announce plans to rebuild their central business district after an earthquake devastated the area

2011 Event - The U.K. government recognizes the National Transitional Council and expels Libyan diplomats loyal to Muammar Gaddafi

2011 Event - The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council

2011 Event - Resolution 1970 is adopted by the U.N. Security Council; the resolution imposes sanctions on the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi

2011 Event - President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

2011 Event - The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record

2010 Event - According to China, a report submitted to the U.N. Security Council on violation of the Darfur weapons embargo is ridden with flaws and vaguely worded

2010 Event - In accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, Russia bans arms sales to Iran

2010 Event - President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council

2010 Event - Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza

2009 Event - North Korea announces a successful nuclear test in North Hamgyong, the U.N. Security Council condems the test

2005 Death - Peter W. Rodino, Representative-D-New Jersey 1949 - 1989, chaired Watergate council, died at 95 of heart failure

1997 Event - Baseball's Executive Council suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1996 Death - Patrick McGeown, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981, dies at 40 from a heart attack

1995 Death - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, General-Secretary Council of Churches, dies at 64

1994 Death - Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64

1992 Event - U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia

1992 Event - U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia

1992 Death - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79

1992 Event - U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya

1991 Event - U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration

1991 Event - U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

1991 Event - U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq

1988 Event - Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches

1987 Event - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor

1985 Event - U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"

1985 Death - Eugene Carson Blake, Secretary-General World Council of Churches, dies at 78

1985 Event - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent

1983 Event - Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"

1983 Event - World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds

1982 Event - U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1982 Event - U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands

1982 Event - Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case

1981 Event - U.N. Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl

1981 Death - Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89

1980 Event - U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital

1980 Event - U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1980 Event - CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established

1978 Event - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1977 Event - U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa

1976 Event - U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 yr term

1976 Event - U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org

1973 Event - Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War

1973 Event - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

1972 Event - Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches

1971 Event - U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General

1971 Event - China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council

1971 Event - European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers

1970 Birthday - Jon Lieber, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1970 Event - U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England)

1968 Event - Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions

1967 Event - U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land

1967 Death - David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84

1967 Event - Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission

1966 Event - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners

1965 Event - Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council

1965 Event - U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia

1965 Event - 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened

1965 Event - Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe

1964 Event - Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council

1964 Event - 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome

1964 Event - African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar

1963 Event - Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council

1963 Event - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, 'Vatican II,' opens in Rome

1963 Event - Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council

1963 Event - Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State

1963 Event - NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City

1962 Event - 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII

1961 Event - Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council

1959 Event - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council

1958 Event - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters

1958 Event - U.N. Security council sends observers to Lebanon

1958 Birthday - Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council

1958 Event - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

1958 Birthday - Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England

1958 Event - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

1957 Event - LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers

1957 Event - Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded

1956 Birthday - Patrick McGeown, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981

1956 Event - Canadian Football Council forms

1955 Death - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59

1954 Event - Council for the Children Protection forms in Netherlands

1954 Birthday - Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008

1954 Event - 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss

1954 Birthday - Robert F Kennedy, Jr., attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

1953 Event - Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

1953 Event - U.N. Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general

1952 Birthday - Eveline Herfkens, born in The Hague, Netherlands, Dutch politician, member of the Dutch parliament from 1981 - 1990, served on the Council of the Labor Party

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

1951 Event - Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council

1951 Event - Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators

1951 Death - Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65

1951 Birthday - Frank Chikane, Secretary-General of South Africa Council of Churches

1950 Event - National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms

1950 Event - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time

1949 Event - Council of Europe forms

1949 Event - Statue of Council of Europe drawn

1949 Event - Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel

1949 Event - U.N. Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia

1948 Event - Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration

1948 Event - World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft

1948 Event - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries

1948 Event - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time

1947 Birthday - Luke Rittner, Secretary-General, Arts Council

1947 Birthday - Rosie Barnes, born in Nottingham, England, born Rosemary Susan Allen, politician, founding member of the Social Democratic Party, served the Council for Social Democracy, charity organizer

1946 Event - Belgian Council of State forms

1946 Event - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting

1945 Event - Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl

1945 Birthday - Larry Craig, born in Council, Idaho, Representative-R-Idaho 1981 - 1991, Senator-R-Idaho 1991 - 2009

1945 Birthday - Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council

1945 Birthday - Andrew Stein, President of New York City council, D

1944 Birthday - Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy

1944 Birthday - Alan Howarth, born in Britain, born Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, politician, Member of Parliament 1983 - 2005, member of the Privy Council

1942 Event - Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms

1942 Birthday - Carol Bellamy, Planfield, New Jersey, City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85

1941 Event - New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens

1941 Event - Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council

1941 Event - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen

1940 Event - British Council receives British Charter

1940 Event - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State

1940 Birthday - Barbara Kelly, CEO, Scottish Consumer Council

1938 Birthday - John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998

1937 Birthday - Christopher Rose, born in England, Lord Justice Rose, Sir Christopher Rose, judge, member, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, served Court of Appeal of England and Wales

1935 Event - Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000

1935 Event - SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam

1933 Birthday - Earl of Cranbrook, CEO, Nature Conservancy Council

1932 Birthday - David Plastow, CEO, Medical Research Council

1931 Birthday - Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council

1931 Birthday - Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council

1931 Birthday - Mark Richmond, CEO, Science and Engineering Research Council

1930 Birthday - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1930 Birthday - David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland

1929 Birthday - Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology

1927 Event - Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State

1926 Event - Italian Great Fascist Council forms

1926 Event - China asks for a seat in the Security council

1925 Birthday - Edward Fursdon, British Major-General, defense council

1925 Birthday - Colin Spedding, CEO, Council of Science and Technology Institutes

1925 Birthday - Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council

1925 Event - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council

1923 Birthday - Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist, Council of Economic Advisers

1922 Birthday - David Orr, deputy chairman, Inchcape, CEO, British Council, Unilever

1921 Birthday - Philip A. Potter, Dominica Secretary-General World council of Churches

1917 Event - Belgium Council of Flanders established

1916 Birthday - John Jacob Rhodes, born in Council Grove, Kansas, Representative-R-Arizona 1953 - 1983

1915 Event - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)

1914 Event - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands

1912 Event - National Council of Young Israel convenes

1912 Birthday - Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany

1912 Death - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies

1912 Birthday - Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council

1910 Birthday - Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council

1909 Birthday - Peter W. Rodino, born in Newark, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1949 - 1989, chaired Watergate council

1908 Birthday - Christian GK Baeta, Togolese chairman, International Mission Council

1908 Event - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

1907 Birthday - Paul O'Dwyer, President of City Council, D-NYC

1906 Birthday - Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. Secretary-General of World council of Churches, 1966-72

1905 Event - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia

1898 Event - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY

1897 Death - Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74

1891 Birthday - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council

1888 Birthday - P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council

1887 Birthday - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950

1885 Birthday - Henri Velge, 1st chairman, Belgian Council of State

1884 Birthday - Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man

1882 Birthday - David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council

1880 Event - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

1880 Event - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

1873 Birthday - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube

1869 Event - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome

1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies

1822 Birthday - Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97

1818 Death - Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60

1804 Death - Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64

1796 Event - Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500

1795 Event - Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris

1793 Event - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange

1784 Death - Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67

1740 Birthday - Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO, Council of 500

1731 Death - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67

1716 Birthday - Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council

1682 Event - Nationally Council accept independence of French church

1673 Birthday - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council

1647 Event - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council

1629 Death - Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74

1608 Event - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va

1576 Event - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten

1564 Event - Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente

1563 Event - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years

1562 Event - Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon

1562 Event - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens

1558 Death - Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies

1555 Event - William of Orange becomes member of Council of State

1551 Event - Council of Trente resumes

1550 Event - Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente

1549 Event - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna

1545 Event - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens

1545 Event - Pope Paul III opens council of Trente

1544 Event - Pope Paul III opens council of Trente

1517 Event - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen

1512 Event - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen

1512 Event - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen

1511 Event - Council to Pisa opens

1438 Event - Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara

1431 Event - Council of Basel opens

1415 Event - Council of Konstanz

1414 Event - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens

1409 Event - Council of Pisa closes

1409 Event - Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V

1409 Event - Council of Pisa opens

1386 Event - Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders

1312 Event - Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna

1312 Event - 2nd council of Vienna

1311 Event - Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens

1274 Event - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens

1245 Event - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens

1215 Event - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen

1215 Event - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1179 Event - 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1139 Event - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1123 Event - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1095 Event - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus

870 Event - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople

869 Event - 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens

842 Event - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches

787 Event - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor

680 Event - 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens

553 Event - 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens

454 Death - Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies

451 Event - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens

431 Event - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens

325 Event - Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

325 Event - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor

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