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2013 Event - The World Health Organization announces that the Novel coronavirus 2012, the newly discovered coronavirus, also referred to as Saudi SARS, can be transmitted from person-to-person contact

2013 Event - Brazilian Roberto Azevedo is named the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization; he assumes the position September 1, 2013

2012 Event - NASA's Curiosity rover continues to make small discoveries as the organization works to discredit rumors of evidence of life on Mars

2012 Event - The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir

2012 Event - The novel coronavirus alert is lifted by the World Health Organization after they determine the virus, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is not highly contagious

2012 Event - A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert

2012 Event - The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks

2012 Event - After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles

2012 Event - A proposal for a statue to George Orwell is flatly turned down by the BBC, who said Orwell resigned from the organization, 'because for some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my time and the public money on doing work that produces no results.'

2012 Event - Egypt's state news organization states that their President, Mohammed Morsi is going to Iran at the end of August to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meeting

2012 Event - The Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization after an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease occurs in Quang Ngai Province

2011 Event - The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee recalls four News International executives for further examination of phone hacking within the organization

2011 Event - The World Health Organization claims over 5 million Ethiopian are susceptible to developing cholera due to the breakout of acute watery diarrhea

2011 Event - The World Health Organization announces the E. coli strain responsible for the 2011 E.coli O104:H4 outbreak had never before been isolated from patients

2011 Event - After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans

2011 Event - Two suspected Al-Quaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb members are arrested in Tunisia for carrying bombs and explosives near the city of Ramada

2011 Event - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that world food prices have reached a record high

2011 Event - A plan to prevent the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria is launched by the World Health Organization (WHO)

2010 Event - Known as Africa's female Mandela, Victoire Ingabire, Rwanda's opposition leader, is arrested on charges of forming a terrorist organization

2007 Event - Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization

1995 Event - New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization

1992 Event - New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season

1991 Death - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered

1991 Event - Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade

1983 Event - Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"

1982 Event - Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon

1982 Death - Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87

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

1981 Event - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified

1980 Event - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

1978 Event - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus

1973 Event - OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms

1969 Event - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders

1966 Event - National Organization of Women founded

1966 Event - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes

1966 Event - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms

1965 Event - Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms

1964 Event - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1964 Event - Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in New York by Malcolm X

1964 Event - ESRO established, European Space Research Organization

1963 Event - Organization of African Unity forms

1963 Event - Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia

1960 Event - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms

1960 Event - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms

1954 Event - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1951 Event - Organization of Central American States forms

1950 Birthday - Alan Keyes, born in Long Island, New York, politician, Republican party, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for international Organization Affairs

1950 Event - U.N. World Meteorological Organization established

1949 Event - NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)

1949 Event - NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, treaty ratified

1948 Event - U.N.'s World Health Organization forms

1948 Event - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris

1948 Event - World Health Organization forms by U.N.

1947 Event - U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms

1946 Event - U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed

1945 Birthday - Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women

1945 Event - UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence

1945 Event - 45 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in SF

1945 Event - Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride

1942 Event - National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms

1942 Birthday - Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization

1942 Death - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50

1941 Event - Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization

1941 Event - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)

1941 Event - United Service Organization, USO, founded

1939 Birthday - Eleanor Smeal, leader, National Organization for Women

1930 Birthday - Jim Rohn, born in Idaho, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, joined direct sales organization of John Earl Shoaff, became millionaire by age 31, shared rags to riches story and personal development philosophy with over 4 million people worldwide, authored 17 books, audio, video programs

1929 Event - 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City)

1929 Birthday - Yasser Arafat, leader, Palestine Liberation Organization

1929 Event - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms

1925 Birthday - Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania

1925 Birthday - Patrick Meany, CEO, Rank Organization

1923 Birthday - Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79

1912 Event - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick

1911 Event - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam

1903 Event - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia

1901 Event - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

1897 Event - National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1895 Birthday - Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization

1894 Event - Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska

1894 Event - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms

1893 Birthday - Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization

1892 Birthday - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader

1892 Birthday - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister, Organization Todt

1882 Event - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

1874 Event - White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms

1840 Event - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York

1648 Event - 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers

1524 Event - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome

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