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

2013 Event - The Arms Trade Treaty, the first-ever bill to regulate the global trade in conventional weapons, is passed by the U.N. General Assembly

2013 Event - Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first-ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations

2013 Event - Bankrupt carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world's largest air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines

2012 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives votes to end the Jackson-Vanik amendment from 1974, which was intended to effect U.S. trade relations with Communist countries

2012 Event - In Greece, trade unions call a general strike as they continue their protest against austerity measures

2012 Event - France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress

2012 Event - The nearly finished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City

2012 Event - In Portugal, trade unions hold a 24-hour strike to protest austerity measures

2011 Event - China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected

2010 Event - A free trade accord between India and Malaysia is announced; it would become effective July 2011

2010 Event - China's largest fair, Canton Fair, opens and is closely watched as it is the barometer of the country's trade and economic development

2010 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives imposes trade sanctions against China, which is believed to be undervaluing the yuan

2010 Event - Trade unions in France launch a round of strikes in response to President Sarkozy's plan to lift the pension age to 62

2010 Event - India is crippled as trade unions declare a general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices

2010 Event - After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters

2009 Event - Cuban and Venezuelan leaders sign over $3.2 billion worth of trade and cooperation agreements

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

2005 Event - Sony's PlayStation 3 makes it's debut at the E3 trade show

1998 Event - Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3M and 4 minor leaguers

1998 Event - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

1997 Event - Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees

1997 Event - San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels

1997 Event - Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial

1997 Event - A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601

1997 Event - Indians trade Lofton and Embree to Braves for Grissom and Justice

1996 Death - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist, dies at 84

1996 Death - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76

1996 Death - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45

1996 Death - Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54

1996 Death - David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82

1996 Death - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80

1995 Death - Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84

1995 Death - Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59

1995 Death - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66

1995 Death - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63

1994 Death - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies

1994 Event - CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade

1994 Event - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1994 Event - President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam

1994 Event - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs

1994 Event - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect

1993 Event - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays

1993 Event - 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die

1993 Event - 12 member European Economic Community sets up vast free trade zone

1992 Event - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson

1992 Event - Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns

1992 Event - New York Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent

1992 Death - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80

1992 Event - Europe breaks down trade barriers

1991 Event - NHL New York Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier

1990 Event - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones

1990 Event - Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter

1990 Event - New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt

1989 Death - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67

1989 Event - Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets

1989 Event - White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa

1989 Event - Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret and Polonia

1989 Event - Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson

1988 Event - Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US

1988 Event - Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers

1988 Event - Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

1988 Event - Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions

1988 Event - Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement

1987 Event - Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers

1987 Event - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

1987 Event - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton

1986 Event - Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson

1986 Event - Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson

1986 Event - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade

1985 Event - Yankees trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro

1985 Event - Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark

1984 Event - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell and Jose Rijo

1984 Event - Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher

1984 Event - Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner

1983 Event - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut

1983 Event - Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey

1983 Death - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79

1982 Event - U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union

1982 Event - Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through

1982 Event - Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)

1981 Event - Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana and Joe Rudi

1980 Event - CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established

1979 Event - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players

1978 Event - Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin

1978 Event - Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis

1978 Event - European market and China signs trade agreement

1978 Event - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000

1978 Event - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)

1977 Event - Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni and cash

1977 Event - New York Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry

1977 Event - George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center

1977 Event - Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner

1976 Event - Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen and $100,000 to A's for manager Chuck Tanner

1976 Event - Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman

1976 Event - A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell

1975 Event - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich

1975 Event - U.S. lightens trade embargo against Cuba

1975 Event - Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players

1975 Event - U.S.S.R. breaks trade agreement with US

1974 Event - Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May

1974 Event - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles and Locker

1974 Event - Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds

1974 Event - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets

1974 Event - Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw

1974 Event - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)

1973 Event - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia

1973 Event - Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade

1973 Event - Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall

1973 Event - Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris

1973 Event - San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell

1973 Event - New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis

1973 Event - ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to New York Nets

1973 Event - Yankees trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer

1972 Event - Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels

1972 Event - Yankees trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses

1972 Event - Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash

1972 Death - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64

1972 Event - Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub

1972 Event - Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle

1972 Event - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise

1971 Event - U.S. ends ban on China trade

1970 Event - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)

1970 Event - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross

1970 Event - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)

1969 Event - Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals

1968 Event - Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson

1968 Event - Philadelphia 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to Los Angeles Lakers

1968 Event - Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco

1968 Event - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi

1967 Birthday - Randi Ingerman, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Trade Winds

1966 Event - A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith

1964 Event - Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City)

1962 Event - President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs

1960 Event - West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany

1960 Event - Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn

1960 Event - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

1960 Event - European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

1959 Event - Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri

1959 Event - NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players

1959 Event - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players

1957 Event - Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players

1957 Event - Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran

1957 Event - Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade

1957 Event - Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises

1956 Event - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires

1956 Event - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco

1955 Event - Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement

1955 Event - U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

1954 Event - Yankees trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada and Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen and Hunter as part of an 18 player deal

1954 Event - Belgium ends trade agreement with U.S.S.R.

1953 Event - Red Sox trade M McDermott and Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen

1953 Death - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in New York at 39

1951 Birthday - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator

1949 Event - White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox

1949 Event - A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton

1949 Event - Yankees trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds

1949 Birthday - George Willig, stuntman, climbed World Trade Center in 1977

1948 Event - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective

1947 Event - U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement

1945 Event - World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member

1945 Birthday - Rodney Bickerstaffe, trade unionist

1944 Birthday - John Edmonds, British trade unionist

1943 Event - Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash

1943 Death - Beatrice Webb, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine, dies at age 85, in Liphook, England

1943 Birthday - Harry Conroy, trade unionist

1942 Death - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61

1942 Birthday - Dick Pickering, trade unionist

1940 Birthday - Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist

1940 Birthday - Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist

1940 Birthday - Ron Santo, shortstop, Cubs, 1st baseball player to veto his trade

1940 Event - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)

1939 Birthday - Daniel Oliver, born in New York City, CEO, Federal Trade Commission

1939 Event - Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco

1937 Event - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yankees release Tony Lazzeri

1937 Birthday - Alice Mahon, born in Halifax, England, trade unionist, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Halifax 1987 - 2005

1937 Event - U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty

1937 Birthday - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1936 Birthday - Harry McLevy, trade Unionist

1936 Birthday - Bill Jordan, British trade unionist

1933 Event - U.S. recognizes U.S.S.R., opens trade

1933 Birthday - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1933 Event - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated

1933 Event - Italy and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement

1933 Event - In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1932 Event - Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll

1932 Event - British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R.

1932 Event - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

1932 Birthday - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist

1932 Death - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Death - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Event - Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions

1931 Birthday - Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation

1931 Event - Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty

1930 Birthday - Clayton K. Yeutter, Nebraska, U.S. trade rep/Republican National chairman

1930 Birthday - John Daly, British trade union leader

1929 Birthday - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist

1929 Event - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light

1928 Birthday - Reubin Askew, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Reubin O'Donovan Askew, politician, Democratic Party, Governor of Florida 1971 - 1979, U.S. Trade Representative 1979 - 1981

1927 Death - Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies

1927 Birthday - Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1927 Birthday - Ron Todd, British trade unionist

1926 Event - Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring

1926 Event - French and German trade agreement signed

1926 Birthday - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist, COHSE

1925 Event - Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement

1925 Event - German-Russian trade agreement signed

1925 Birthday - Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist

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 - British-Russian trade agreement signed

1924 Event - German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed

1922 Birthday - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader

1922 Birthday - Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA

1922 Event - Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

1922 Event - Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam

1920 Birthday - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official

1920 Birthday - William Simpson, British trade union leader

1919 Birthday - Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader

1919 Event - Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert

1918 Event - Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000

1918 Event - Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux

1917 Event - Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members

1916 Event - Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions

1916 Event - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cincinnati Reds

1915 Event - Federal Trade Commission organizes

1915 Birthday - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist

1914 Event - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce

1913 Birthday - Jack Jones, British trade unionist, CH

1913 Birthday - David Bowman, trade unionist

1912 Birthday - Minoru Yamasaki, architect, World Trade Center, New York

1912 Birthday - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist

1911 Birthday - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader

1909 Birthday - Harold Francis Collison, trade Unionist

1909 Event - Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps

1906 Event - China prohibits opium trade

1905 Event - General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

1904 Event - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)

1904 Birthday - Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974

1898 Birthday - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist

1892 Birthday - Karel L Baars, Dutch actor, White Slaves Trade

1867 Event - Tokyo opens for foreign trade

1866 Birthday - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor, Trade scholarship

1858 Event - Netherlands and Japan sign trade agreement

1858 Birthday - Beatrice Webb, born in Gloucester, England, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine

1853 Event - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan

1850 Event - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue

1838 Birthday - Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903

1830 Event - General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam

1828 Event - 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)

1827 Event - Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java

1826 Event - Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura

1826 Event - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty

1824 Event - England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement

1811 Event - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

1807 Event - British Parliament abolishes slave trade

1807 Event - Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808

1806 Event - Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England

1792 Event - Denmark abolishes slave trade

1788 Event - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1786 Event - England and France sign trade agreement

1785 Event - Prussia signs trade agreement with US

1784 Event - 1st U.S. ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York

1778 Event - City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with U.S. rebels

1775 Event - Poland and Prussia sign trade agreement

1749 Event - English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post

1734 Event - England and Russia sign trade agreement

1725 Event - Spain and Austria sign trade treaty

1714 Event - Spain and Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement

1668 Event - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade

1654 Event - England and Denmark sign trade agreement

1654 Event - England and Sweden sign trade agreement

1557 Event - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement

1536 Event - France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel

1507 Event - England and Netherlands sign trade agreement

1506 Event - Philip of Bourgondy and England sign trade agreement

1503 Event - Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs













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