Passes - Notable Historical Events
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Passes - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1534-10-30 |
English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England - a role formerly held by the Pope |
1542-01-21 |
Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard |
1581-01-16 |
English parliament passes laws against Catholicism |
1634-11-11 |
Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery". |
1639-12-03 |
1st annulment by court decree passes |
1645-04-03 |
English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army |
1647-11-11 |
Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies |
1651-10-09 |
English parliament passes Navigation Act |
1656-10-02 |
British north American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers |
1664-09-20 |
Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men |
1679-05-27 |
Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England |
1689-12-16 |
English Parliament passes Bill of Rights establishing limits on crown powers and requirement for regular elections |
1690-05-20 |
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II |
1733-05-17 |
England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions |
1748-03-19 |
Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize north American colonies |
1760-06-10 |
NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine |
1772-09-26 |
New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine |
1773-04-27 |
British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) |
1774-03-25 |
British Parliament passes Boston Port Bill |
1774-03-28 |
Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts |
1778-09-19 |
The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States. |
1787-06-12 |
US Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old |
1790-03-26 |
US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency |
1790-07-26 |
US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts |
1792-02-21 |
US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act |
1793-07-24 |
France passes 1st copyright law |
1794-06-04 |
Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers |
1798-06-25 |
US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens |
1799-02-25 |
Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation |
1799-03-29 |
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. |
1802-01-26 |
Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library |
1804-01-05 |
Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement |
1807-12-22 |
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France |
1810-03-06 |
Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US |
1812-03-03 |
US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) |
1820-03-03 |
Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there. |
1823-12-19 |
Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US |
1832-03-23 |
British Parliament passes reform bill |
1832-11-24 |
South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification |
1834-09-14 |
Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile |
1838-02-16 |
Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions |
1842-07-09 |
Notary Stamp Law passes |
1846-08-10 |
US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex |
1850-09-18 |
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 |
1856-02-07 |
The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. |
1857-06-10 |
Britain passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
1859-02-16 |
The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch. |
1861-02-11 |
US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state |
1861-08-06 |
US Congress passes First Confiscation Act |
1863-07-06 |
Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia |
1864-06-15 |
US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers |
1865-01-31 |
Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) |
1866-04-09 |
Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1866-06-13 |
US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights) |
1867-02-17 |
1st ship passes through Suez Canal |
1867-03-23 |
Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867-03-29 |
British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes |
1868-06-25 |
US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day |
1869-03-13 |
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law |
1869-04-12 |
North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law |
1870-05-31 |
Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
1874-04-15 |
NY legislature passes compulsory education law |
1874-05-05 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law |
1875-03-01 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883 |
1882-08-03 |
Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
1885-03-03 |
Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government) |
1889-03-02 |
Kansas passes 1st US antitrust |
1889-03-09 |
Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US |
1890-07-02 |
Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act |
1893-04-05 |
Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) |
1893-09-01 |
Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41 |
1894-08-27 |
Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
1898-04-22 |
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
1900-03-14 |
US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act |
1900-03-27 |
Recognising that the war in South Africa is going to take a major commitment, Parliament passes the War Loan Act, calling for £35 million to support the fight against the Boers. |
1900-04-12 |
The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May) |
1900-07-05 |
Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber |
1900-07-30 |
British Parliament passes several progressive social acts: a Mines Act, a Workmen's Compensation Act and a Railway Act |
1901-02-02 |
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000 |
1901-03-02 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
1902-05-10 |
Portugal goes bankrupt, but its parliament passes a bill converting its external debt. Contributing to Portugal's troubles is a recent revolt in its colony of Angola, put down on 6 September |
1902-07-01 |
US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA |
1902-12-18 |
British parliament passes the Education Act, which will come to be regarded as the most important legislation of Balfour's government |
1903-04-06 |
In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April |
1906-06-05 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
1906-06-30 |
US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular) |
1907-03-22 |
The new Boer government in the Transvaal passes an Asiatic Registration Bill, that restricts immigration from India |
1907-04-12 |
In Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces into a standing militia, with training required for all males |
1907-05-01 |
Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) |
1908-06-10 |
The Australian Parliament passes the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act providing for pensions for British subjects (excluding aborigines) at age 65 |
1909-03-12 |
Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill |
1909-09-20 |
The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages |
1910-04-20 |
Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km |
1910-05-04 |
Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy |
1911-05-26 |
Germany passes legislation organizing Alsace and Lorraine as an autonomous state with a legislature |
1912-06-04 |
Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law |
1912-08-24 |
US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government |
1912-10-19 |
Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control |
1913-05-19 |
Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land |
1913-09-23 |
Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices |
1914-01-07 |
1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal |
1914-01-27 |
A petition is written and submitted by the black and coloured women of the Orange Free State, an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa, against the carrying of passes by women |
1914-05-25 |
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill |
1914-06-26 |
The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages" |
1914-07-29 |
British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover |
1914-08-03 |
1st seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal |
1916-01-24 |
The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons |
1916-07-11 |
Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act |
1917-03-03 |
US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
1917-05-18 |
US passes Selective Service act |
1918-05-21 |
US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote |
1919-04-12 |
British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages |
1919-06-04 |
Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill |
1919-12-01 |
AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester |
1920-01-20 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws |
1921-03-05 |
The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South Africa |
1923-07-13 |
Draft law passes |
1926-05-20 |
Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes |
1926-11-01 |
US Air Commerce Act passes |
1928-04-09 |
Turkey passes separation of church & state |
1928-09-28 |
UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis. |
1929-08-25 |
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage |
1931-02-03 |
Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia" |
1933-02-05 |
Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
1933-07-12 |
Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) |
1934-01-01 |
Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". |
1934-03-16 |
Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act |
1934-03-24 |
U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years |
1934-04-13 |
US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act |
1934-06-12 |
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines |
1938-11-17 |
Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws |
1940-06-29 |
US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register |
1940-09-14 |
Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) |
1941-12-07 |
Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
1943-07-08 |
US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia |
1943-10-31 |
Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10) |
1943-11-14 |
Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7) |
1944-09-09 |
US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
1947-09-18 |
National Security Act passes |
1947-11-23 |
Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21) |
1947-12-25 |
Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law) |
1948-03-31 |
Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe |
1949-06-20 |
Central Intelligence Agency Act passes |
1949-12-11 |
Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29) |
1950-04-27 |
South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races |
1950-07-05 |
Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel |
1950-10-02 |
Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13) |
1950-11-05 |
Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record |
1951-02-16 |
NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing |
1951-09-28 |
Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards |
1951-11-07 |
Constitution of Jordan passes |
1953-10-28 |
Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) |
1954-06-22 |
Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
1954-10-17 |
Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21) |
1956-08-17 |
One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister |
1957-08-29 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
1958-01-30 |
UK House of Lords passes bill allowing women to take seats |
1959-09-11 |
Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
1960-04-08 |
US Senate passes Civil Rights Bill with measures against discriminatory voting pracrices |
1960-04-10 |
Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
1961-09-17 |
Fran Tarkenton plays his first NFL Game against the Chicago Bears, coming off the bench to lead the Vikings to a 37-13 victory, also becoming the only QB to throw four touchdown passes in his first career game |
1961-11-19 |
Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13) |
1962-06-15 |
South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
1962-10-14 |
Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17 |
1962-10-28 |
NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34) |
1963-12-22 |
Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
1964-06-19 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 |
1964-10-08 |
Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test |
1964-11-01 |
George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
1964-11-01 |
KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
1964-12-12 |
Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
1965-02-15 |
John Lennon passes his driving test |
1965-04-01 |
Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control |
1965-05-26 |
Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes |
1965-07-14 |
US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) |
1965-09-29 |
St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13) |
1967-11-22 |
UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land |
1968-09-28 |
Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes |
1969-06-29 |
On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896) |
1969-07-30 |
Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) |
1969-09-28 |
Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14) |
1969-10-19 |
Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) |
1970-04-03 |
Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt |
1970-06-07 |
Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win |
1970-07-06 |
California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law |
1970-07-13 |
The annual 'Twelfth' parades passes off without serious incident in Northern Ireland |
1970-08-03 |
Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try |
1971-09-28 |
UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis. |
1971-11-05 |
Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
1972-03-06 |
Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner |
1972-09-24 |
NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34) |
1973-07-20 |
The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. |
1973-09-13 |
Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
1973-12-03 |
Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT] |
1975-07-09 |
The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system. |
1975-10-17 |
UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" |
1975-12-23 |
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
1976-09-28 |
US Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act |
1976-12-21 |
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child |
1977-07-24 |
Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 |
1977-11-24 |
Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St Louis (55-14) |
1979-05-05 |
Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
1980-09-21 |
Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) |
1981-06-05 |
Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777) |
1981-11-22 |
SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21) |
1982-08-14 |
Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron) |
1983-01-02 |
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
1983-05-20 |
Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs |
1983-06-07 |
Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out |
1983-10-09 |
Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
1984-10-07 |
Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
1984-10-15 |
Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes |
1984-11-23 |
Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45 |
1985-02-24 |
Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds |
1985-05-22 |
Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader |
1985-07-20 |
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. |
1985-09-11 |
Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km |
1985-12-20 |
Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points) |
1986-03-08 |
Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km |
1986-09-09 |
Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
1986-09-21 |
Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45) |
1986-09-28 |
Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds |
1987-04-09 |
For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists) in a Stanley Cup game and passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ |
1987-08-28 |
Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs |
1987-08-29 |
Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time |
1987-11-29 |
Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes |
1988-03-01 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist |
1988-07-14 |
Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place |
1988-10-19 |
Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows |
1988-11-10 |
NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes |
1989-01-21 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer |
1989-05-19 |
Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 |
1989-06-30 |
NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill |
1989-10-15 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer |
1990-06-22 |
Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit |
1990-10-14 |
SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35) |
1991-08-31 |
Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3 |
1991-09-07 |
Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards |
1991-09-08 |
Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) |
1991-11-10 |
Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception |
1992-02-08 |
Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter |
1992-05-07 |
Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes |
1992-12-07 |
Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
1993-04-20 |
Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years) |
1993-06-14 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth |
1993-11-18 |
NAFTA passes House |
1993-11-24 |
Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales |
1993-12-28 |
John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts) |
1994-01-21 |
Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20) |
1994-01-23 |
Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Champ games |
1994-05-06 |
US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban |
1994-05-14 |
Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617 |
1994-05-28 |
Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054) |
1994-09-13 |
Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun |
1994-10-28 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time |
1994-12-09 |
5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth |
1995-12-21 |
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. |
1996-02-08 |
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. |
1996-12-18 |
The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect. |
1997-09-12 |
The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program |
1997-09-12 |
The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program |
1998-08-28 |
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
1999-12-17 |
The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. |
2000-09-12 |
Holland (the Netherlands) passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce. |
2000-11-13 |
Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. |
2001-10-15 |
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. |
2001-10-26 |
The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. |
2004-09-29 |
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. |
2005-09-30 |
The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation". |
2006-05-18 |
The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country. |
2009-10-18 |
QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter |
2012-04-10 |
United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues |
2013-04-02 |
Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage |
2013-04-23 |
The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
2013-05-06 |
The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales |
2013-06-12 |
Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda |
2013-06-18 |
Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children |
2013-09-23 |
25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China |
2014-07-14 |
The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500 |
2015-12-22 |
Number of refugees reaching Europe this year passes 1 million |
2016-04-02 |
Greece passes law allowing migrants' return to Turkey |
2016-04-06 |
Mississippi passes controversial 'religious freedom' bill |
2016-05-09 |
Greece passes tax and pension reforms |
2016-05-18 |
9/11 bill passes US Senate despite Saudi threats |
2017-04-04 |
Tesla Passes Ford in Market Value as Investors Bet on the Future |
2017-05-04 |
US House passes bill to fund government through September |
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Passes - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1884-06-11 |
Peggy Hyland, Mr. Pim Passes by |
1890-10-07 |
Gertrude Robinson, Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience |
1967-03-06 |
Hyeon-woo Lee, Before the Summer Passes Away |
1990-03-10 |
Muratcan Gokce, A Ferry Passes Through to the Bosphorus |
1990-06-26 |
James Peverill, As Time Passes |
Passes - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1962-03-19 |
Gertrude Robinson, Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience |
2015-11-10 |
Pat Eddery death: Legendary flat jockey passes away at the age of 63 |
2015-12-25 |
Sadhana Shivdasani, Bollywood star and style icon, passes away at 74 |
2016-06-03 |
Jan Crouch dies aged 78; Trinity Broadcasting Network cofounder passes away after stroke |
2017-03-15 |
First-Ever Williams F1 Driver Patrick Neve Passes Away |
2017-12-09 |
Fargo and Dances With Wolves actor Steve Reevis passes away at age 55 |
