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2013 Event - Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues

2012 Event - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recovers from a cancer operation; his Cabinet ministers get together to pray for his recovery

2012 Event - The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation

2011 Event - India's government relaxes rules relating to the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India

2011 Event - American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes a life-saving operation and has her leg amputated

2010 Event - FARC guerilla leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, known as 'Mono Jojoy' is killed in a Columbian Armed Forces military operation

2004 Event - Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation

2001 Death - Poul Anderson, writer, Operation Chaos, dies at 74

2000 Event - Two onboard torpedoes explode on the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, which eventually killed all onboard, despite a rescue operation

1996 Event - Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with U.S.)

1995 Death - Gary Crosby, singer and actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61

1993 Death - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80

1992 Event - Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia

1992 Death - Robert F Simon, U.S. actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83

1992 Event - U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation

1991 Event - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation

1991 Event - Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq

1991 Event - Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

1990 Death - Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72

1990 Event - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84

1990 Event - Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV

1989 Death - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76

1980 Event - Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1980 Event - U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

1980 Event - FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors

1979 Event - RKO radio network begins operation

1979 Event - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service

1978 Event - Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon

1976 Event - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.)

1973 Event - Nation Black Network begins operation on radio

1971 Event - Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson

1971 Death - Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44

1971 Event - Amtrak Railroad begins operation

1971 Death - Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73

1969 Birthday - Doug E Doug, rapper/comedian, Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever

1968 Event - Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation

1967 Event - 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border

1966 Event - Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks

1964 Event - ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation

1962 Event - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation

1962 Event - 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation

1962 Event - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation

1958 Event - European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation

1957 Event - 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

1956 Event - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)

1953 Event - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom

1952 Event - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation

1950 Event - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel

1950 Event - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews

1948 Event - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel

1948 Event - Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee

1948 Event - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

1947 Birthday - Danny Glover, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop

1947 Event - International Monetary Fund begins operation

1945 Birthday - Assaf Dayan, Israel, actor, Operation Thunderbolt

1945 Event - 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

1945 Event - Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine

1945 Event - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands

1944 Event - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast

1944 Event - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence

1944 Event - Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive

1944 Event - Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)

1944 Event - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea

1943 Event - FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)

1943 Event - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation

1943 Event - U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)

1943 Event - U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WW II, Operation Husky

1943 Event - General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping

1943 Event - Trident conference in Washington D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan)

1942 Event - Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr

1942 Event - U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation

1942 Event - Hitler's Operation Seelowe (invasion of England) cancelled

1941 Event - Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta

1941 Event - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation

1940 Event - Hitler begins invasion of England (operation Seelowe)

1940 Event - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Ilinois

1940 Event - British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

1940 Event - Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk

1936 Birthday - Robert Hogan, New York City, actor, Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat

1936 Event - Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation

1936 Birthday - Ruta Lee, actress, Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar

1935 Event - 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California)

1935 Event - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering

1935 Event - 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland

1934 Event - 1st U.S. ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)

1932 Event - Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)

1931 Event - Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint

1925 Birthday - Dina Merrill, New York City, actress, Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8

1923 Event - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney

1922 Event - 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

1919 Death - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69

1917 Event - Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I

1912 Event - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)

1912 Event - Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation

1905 Event - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine

1902 Event - Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st U.S. brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation

1900 Birthday - Jed Harris, producer/director, Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball

1897 Event - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division

1896 Event - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation

1890 Event - 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

1886 Event - 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts

1883 Event - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago

1881 Event - Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation

1876 Event - 1st crematorium in U.S. begins operation, Washington, Penn

1865 Event - Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco

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

1856 Birthday - Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon, 1st open heart operation

1849 Birthday - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation

1838 Event - U.S. Mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)

1813 Birthday - James Marion Sims, South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist, vesicovaginal operation

1811 Event - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation

1794 Event - Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife

1752 Event - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation

1662 Event - 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)













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