2015 Event The Japanese Diet enacts a defense policy allowing the nation's troops to aid allies in conflicts that also threaten Japan; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the law, but it is opposed by many who wish to maintain the country's pacifist constitution 2014 Event Australia bans all visas from the Ebola-hit nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; the nation's officials state that this is required to preserve public health, but health experts have criticized the policy 2014 Event Three U.S. states have now established quarantine rules for travelers arriving from West Africa who have had contact with Ebola victims; Illinois is the latest to implement the policy, following the lead of New York and New Jersey 2014 Event The Federal Reserve will continue its current program of slow withdrawal of economic stimulus measures, as U.S. unemployment and underemployment numbers have not improved quickly enough to warrant a change in policy 2014 Event The U.S. Federal Reserve announces that it will end its current monetary policy of quantitative easing by ceasing bond purchases after October of this year 2013 Event London's Metropolitan police remove belongings and sleeping bags of homeless people as part of 'a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community' 2013 Event In Rome, one hundred thousand protestors rally against their new government's austerity measures, and demand a new policy focused on job creation 2012 Event Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are listed first on 'Foreign Policy' magazine's 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 Event Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy 2011 Event The U.S. officially ends its Don't ask, don't tell military policy, allowing gay and lesbian personnel to publicly declare their sexual orientation 2010 Event Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas communicates that Palestinians desire a 'comprehensive and just' peace agreement; he requests Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank 1994 Event U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back 1981 Event Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million 1981 Event China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy 1978 Event Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood 1964 Birthday Michael Johns, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, health care executive, conservative policy analyst, former federal government official for the United States 1962 Event Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida 1961 Death Sumner Welles, U.S. diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68 1958 Birthday John Ensign, born in Roseville, California, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Nevada, former chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee 1956 Event Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy 1955 Birthday John Stevens, member of European Parliament, founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative party, known for his pro-Euro policy stance 1953 Event French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1948 Event South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1944 Birthday Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy 1933 Birthday Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy, Strathclyde University 1920 Event U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy) 1911 Event 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey 1904 Birthday William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, Policy Man, Blazing Saddles 1898 Event 1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Co 1892 Birthday Sumner Welles, U.S. undersecretary/diplomat, Good neighbor policy 1867 Event Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy 1835 Event 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI) 1792 Event 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. in Philadelphia 1761 Event 1st life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia 1752 Event 1st U.S. fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia) 1583 Event Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds
