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2013 Event - The Arctic Council, an international forum that addresses issues faced by Arctic governments and the Arctic's indigenous people, gives China, India and four other nations observer status

2013 Event - Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., publishes a letter to Chinese customers, addressing issues regarding the company's warranty policies in China

2013 Event - Days after a new U.S.-South Korea military pact, North Korea issues new threats to strike targets in Hawaii, Guam, South Korea and the U.S. mainland

2013 Event - Developers at Apple, the U.S. creators of the iphone, claim they gave Apple sufficient warning concerning issues with iOS maps

2012 Event - Rick Majerus, the head basketball coach at Saint Louis University, announces his retirement due to health issues

2012 Event - Standard & Poor's credit rating agency receives a ruling by an Australian judge that they misled investors in their rating of two-pre-crisis issues of structured debt

2012 Event - Despite an initial ban on the film 'Borat,' Kazakhstan issues and official 'thank you' to actor Sacha Baron Cohen for his character, Borat Sagdiyev

2012 Event - Moody's Investor's Service issues a negative outlook for the credit ratings for Austria, France and the United Kingdom

2012 Event - India and China agree to build a functional plan to address border issues

2011 Event - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO

2011 Event - The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence

2010 Event - Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda sign an agreement seeking more water from the Nile; Kenya issues support while Egypt and Sudan remain opposed

2008 Event - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia

2005 Event - IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British

1997 Event - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

1996 Event - U.S. issues newly-redesigned $100 bill

1995 Death - Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32

1994 Event - U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1992 Event - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien

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

1989 Event - U.S. issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus

1986 Event - FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia

1986 Event - New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token

1986 Event - Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes

1984 Death - Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56

1983 Event - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver

1979 Event - Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center

1979 Event - Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar

1978 Birthday - Josie Maran, born in Menlo Park, California, model, actress, appeared in 'Van Helsing', 'The Aviator', appeared in 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit' issues fro 2000 - 2002

1977 Event - Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered

1973 Birthday - Molly Sims, born in Murray, Kentucky, actress, model, appeared in 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit' issues, appeared in 'Las Vegas' television drama

1966 Birthday - Michael Franti, born in San Francisco, California, poet, musician, head of Michael Franti & Spearhead band, supports peace and social justice issues

1964 Event - Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages

1963 Birthday - Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS

1961 Event - U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith

1960 Event - Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration

1960 Event - Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 cents

1958 Event - Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

1957 Event - German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency

1955 Event - Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps

1952 Event - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

1950 Event - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards

1950 Event - U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles

1948 Event - President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces

1948 Event - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps

1947 Event - Benelux agress to work related issues

1945 Event - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities

1943 Event - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase

1942 Event - Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1938 Event - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czechoslovakian government, demanding Sudenten Land

1936 Event - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune

1929 Event - U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

1928 Birthday - Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1927 Event - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico

1914 Event - President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1914 Event - Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money

1914 Event - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I

1909 Event - U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny

1900 Event - U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps

1894 Event - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday

1893 Event - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test

1890 Event - President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

1867 Event - Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy

1865 Event - U.S. issues 1st gold certificates

1865 Event - At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last

1865 Event - General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)

1864 Event - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"

1863 Event - President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1862 Event - General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee

1862 Event - U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1862 Event - U.S. issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000)

1862 Event - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

1861 Event - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships

1857 Event - U.S. issues flying eagle cents

1854 Event - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels

1851 Event - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps

1837 Event - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria

1835 Event - 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)

1829 Event - Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate

1815 Event - New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens)

1814 Event - Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes

1810 Event - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event

1799 Event - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1796 Event - U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport

1789 Event - French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"

1775 Event - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1775 Event - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army

1775 Event - Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time

1763 Event - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

1515 Event - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire

1357 Event - Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace

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