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2008 Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work
2005 Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA 1998 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week 1997 Kathy Acker, writer, Bodies of Work: Essays, dies at 54 1997 Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67 1996 Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash 1996 Ike Isaacs, guitarist, played jazz, known for work with Stephane Grappelli, dies at 76 1995 NBA referees return to work after striking 1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils 1986 Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer 1983 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins 1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart 1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work 1977 RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 1977 Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department 1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike 1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" 1967 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65 1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks 1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day 1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women 1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex 1962 U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week 1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week 1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours) 1955 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week 1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week and more wages 1953 Greg Ham, Australia, rock saxophonist/flutist, Men At Work 1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory 1953 Jon Faddis, born in Oakland, California, musician, jazz trumpeter, conductor, composer, music educator, sound compared to his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, member Lionel Hampton's big band, led Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, released Grammy-Award nominated work, Remembrances, 1999 1953 Colin Hay, born in Scotland, rock vocalist, Men At Work 1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher 1949 G. I. Gurdjieff, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way, dies at age 83, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1949 Walter Hyatt, born in America, musician, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business' 1948 U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit 1947 Benelux agress to work related issues 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R. 1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. 1945 Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work 1944 Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City 1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet, Impossible Work 1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry 1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work 1942 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia 1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out 1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox 1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938) 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work 1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week 1936 40 hour work week law approved 1935 SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands 1935 Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany 1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge 1933 German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side 1932 Tod Dockstader, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, composer, musique concrete, electronic music, principle work, Quartermass 1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week 1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema 1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo 1930 Julian Slade, born in London, England, writer, best-known work 'Salad Days', UK's longest running musical 1930 Phillipo Seed, social work academic 1930 Nathaniel Branden, born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, psychotherapist, known for work in psychology of self-esteem, writer, associate of novelist Ayn Rand, promoted her philosophy, idea of Objectivism, profiled in movie, 'The Passion of Ayn Rand' 1930 Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index 1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) 1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week 1926 Gerrit A. Kooy, Dutch sociologist, Apartheid and work in South Africa 1925 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52 1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium 1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1923 U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day 1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours) 1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball 1920 David Waller, actor, Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word 1919 Ike Isaacs, born in Rangoon, Burma, guitarist, played jazz, known for work with Stephane Grappelli, played with Denny Wright in group Velvet in 1970's, taught at the Sydney Guitar School 1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day 1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work 1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day 1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1918 Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash 1917 U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees 1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco 1912 Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat 1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day 1907 Gene Gutche, born in Berlin, Germany, Romeo Maximillian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche, composer, studied business, economics, piano with Ferruccio Busoni, wrote neo-Romantic work, experimented with polytonality, microtones, serialism 1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work 1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional 1905 9 hour work day for diamond miners 1901 John Wesley Work, composer 1900 After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens 1894 Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day 1890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations 1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti, born in Alexandria, Egypt, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy' 1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51 1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal 1880 Damon Runyon, U.S. journalist and writer, Guys and Dolls-based on his work 1880 Frederick Jerome Work, composer 1879 Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud 1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force 1873 John Wesley Work, composer 1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day 1866 Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago 1866 G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way 1864 Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911 1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work 1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day 1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco 1842 Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus 1842 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles 1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours 1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win 1832 Henry Clay Work, composer 1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday |
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