Signed Events in History

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2012 Event - The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

2012 Event - A letter written by Manal al Sharif, and signed by hundreds, urges Saudi King Abdullah to give women the right to drive

2012 Event - A ceasefire is signed between the Burmese government and the Karen rebels

1998 Event - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

1997 Event - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement

1995 Event - Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore is signed

1995 Death - Davie Cooper, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991, dies at 39

1994 Event - Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia

1991 Event - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community

1989 Event - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush

1988 Event - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed

1984 Event - During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

1984 Event - Revised concordat between Italy and Vatican signed

1975 Event - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations

1975 Birthday - Torrie Wilson, born in Boise, Idaho, professional wrestler, fitness competitor, model, signed by World Championship Wrestling, appeared in 'Playboy' magazine

1973 Event - President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

1973 Event - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH

1969 Event - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon

1969 Event - Andes Pact signed in Peru

1968 Event - Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves

1968 Event - Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1967 Event - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed

1964 Event - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson

1963 Event - Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R.

1963 Birthday - Jose Oquendo, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Jose Manuel Roberto Guillermo Contreras Oquendo, baseball player, infielder, coach, signed with New York Mets at age fifteen, member, St. Louis Cardinals, played 1987 World Series, record for fewest second baseman errors, 1990

1961 Event - Supremes signed with Motown Records

1958 Event - Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

1958 Event - National Defense Education Act was signed

1958 Event - President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

1956 Event - Federal interstate highway system act signed

1956 Birthday - Davie Cooper, born in Hamilton, Scotland, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991

1955 Event - Freedom Charter signed in South Africa

1955 Event - Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again

1955 Event - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

1955 Event - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq and Turkey signed

1955 Event - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance

1954 Event - Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed

1954 Event - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1951 Event - Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea

1951 Event - 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson

1951 Event - International Cheese treaty signed

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

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada

1948 Event - Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia

1948 Event - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed

1947 Event - WW II peace treaties signed

1945 Event - U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

1945 Event - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed

1945 Event - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin

1944 Event - Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin

1942 Event - Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London

1941 Event - Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill

1940 Birthday - Chris Farlowe, born in North London, England, John Henry Deighton, rocker, singer, soul, rhythm and blues, jazz rock, signed with Columbia and Immediate, once used pseudonym 'Little Joe Cook'

1940 Event - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms

1940 Event - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische

1938 Event - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain

1938 Event - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season

1933 Event - Federal Securities Act signed

1933 Event - Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams

1929 Birthday - Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, born John Marshall Alexander, Jr., singer, member of the B.B. King band, signed to Duke Records, toured with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

1927 Event - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed

1926 Event - Russia and Latvia treaty of neutrality signed

1926 Event - International slavery convention signed by 20 states

1926 Event - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed

1926 Event - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed

1926 Event - Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed

1926 Event - French and German trade agreement signed

1925 Event - Treaty of Locarno signed

1925 Event - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)

1925 Event - German-Russian trade agreement signed

1924 Event - Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed

1924 Event - British-German trade agreement signed

1924 Event - French-Russian trade agreement signed

1924 Event - French-German trade agreement signed

1924 Event - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed

1924 Event - British-Russian trade agreement signed

1924 Event - German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed

1923 Event - German - U.S friendship treaty signed

1922 Event - Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence

1922 Event - Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

1922 Event - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized

1921 Event - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland

1920 Event - German-Latvian peace treaty signed

1919 Event - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France

1918 Event - United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

1917 Event - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia

1913 Event - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1902 Event - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1901 Event - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant

1899 Event - U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam

1898 Event - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1895 Event - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

1894 Event - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England

1884 Event - British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II

1883 Event - Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property

1871 Event - German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas

1864 Event - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations

1863 Event - Emancipation Proclamation signed

1858 Event - 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed

1851 Event - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.

1848 Event - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed

1846 Event - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49 degrees N

1840 Event - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain and Maoris of New Zealand

1839 Event - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed

1832 Death - Charles Carroll, large landowner, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 95

1825 Event - Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826

1820 Death - William Ellery, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 92

1814 Event - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed

1814 Death - Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 83

1813 Death - Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67

1813 Death - Robert R Livingston, U.S. diplomat signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 66

1813 Death - George Clymer, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 73

1811 Death - Samuel Chase, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 70

1809 Event - Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed

1808 Event - Osage Treaty signed

1806 Death - George Wythe, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79

1804 Death - Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62

1802 Event - Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)

1800 Death - Edward Rutledge, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50

1798 Death - Lewis Morris, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 71

1796 Death - Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64

1795 Event - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi

1795 Death - Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician and judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 65

1794 Event - Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain

1794 Death - Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62

1788 Death - John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47

1787 Death - Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44

1783 Event - Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)

1781 Death - Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50

1779 Death - John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68

1778 Event - 1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)

1778 Death - Philip Livingston, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62

1746 Birthday - Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence

1742 Birthday - William Hooper, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence

1741 Birthday - John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence

1741 Birthday - Samuel Chase, judge, signed Declaration of Independence

1739 Birthday - George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence

1737 Birthday - Charles Carroll, signed Declaration of Independence

1734 Birthday - Robert Morris, merchant, signed Declaration of Independence

1732 Birthday - Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer, signed Declaration of Independence

1731 Birthday - William Williams, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence

1730 Birthday - George Ross, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence

1726 Birthday - Oliver Wolcott, Ct-Gov, signed Declaration of Independence

1726 Birthday - Lewis Morris, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence

1726 Birthday - Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence

1724 Birthday - Lyman Hall, U.S. physician, signed Declaration of Independence

1723 Birthday - John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence

1716 Birthday - Philip Livingston, merchant, signed Declaration of Independence

1707 Birthday - Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island signed Declaration of Independence

1640 Event - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland

1620 Event - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

1579 Event - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic

1579 Event - Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic

1508 Event - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1373 Event - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, world's oldest, signed in London

1360 Event - Treaty of Bretigny signed by English and French

1305 Event - French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge

1153 Event - Treaty of Wallingford signed

855 Death - Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies

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