Votes - Notable Historical Events
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Votes - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1649-01-06 |
The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes" |
1660-04-25 |
English Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II |
1687-09-26 |
The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. |
1776-07-02 |
At the Continental Congress, John Dickinson abstains from the votes that declare independence |
1788-12-23 |
Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for District of Columbia |
1801-01-01 |
The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1845-07-04 |
Texas Congress votes for annexation to US |
1846-01-05 |
The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. |
1854-01-30 |
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast |
1861-02-09 |
Tennessee votes against secession (US Civil War) |
1861-03-16 |
Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War) |
1861-04-29 |
Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union (US Civil War) |
1861-06-08 |
American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union. |
1872-07-18 |
The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes were made openly. |
1872-11-05 |
American women's right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant |
1886-06-08 |
First Home Rule Bill for Ireland defeated by 343 votes to 313 in the British House of Common |
1888-11-06 |
Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes |
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 |
1905-12-09 |
French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state |
1911-04-13 |
The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy |
1911-08-10 |
The Great Britain, the House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members |
1912-12-06 |
China votes for universal human rights |
1916-02-08 |
NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats |
1916-02-09 |
NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) |
1918-11-26 |
The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
1919-12-10 |
NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers |
1920-01-19 |
US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations |
1920-02-12 |
NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission |
1920-12-17 |
AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it |
1921-05-30 |
Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany |
1921-12-20 |
AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 |
1922-10-27 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws |
1926-07-20 |
A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. |
1930-10-10 |
AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP |
1933-03-05 |
Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) |
1934-12-11 |
NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
1935-10-17 |
Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
1939-03-02 |
Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late |
1941-05-07 |
British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) |
1946-09-01 |
Greece votes for monarchy |
1946-12-14 |
UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC |
1947-07-09 |
Spain votes for Franco monarchy |
1948-11-17 |
Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry |
1949-10-04 |
American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out |
1949-12-12 |
AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball |
1949-12-13 |
AL votes down proposal to revive spitball |
1949-12-13 |
Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem |
1950-03-12 |
Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III |
1950-08-29 |
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952 |
1951-09-20 |
Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
1953-07-20 |
The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. |
1957-12-06 |
AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) |
1958-09-28 |
Guinea votes for independence from France |
1958-10-14 |
The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members. |
1960-07-18 |
Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises |
1960-10-16 |
NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league |
1961-11-26 |
Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball |
1962-07-01 |
Algeria votes for independence from France |
1963-01-26 |
Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone |
1963-07-26 |
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. |
1963-10-18 |
IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics |
1966-12-12 |
US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
1967-03-19 |
French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France |
1967-09-10 |
Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish |
1967-10-18 |
AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams |
1969-04-23 |
The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement |
1969-12-16 |
British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty |
1969-12-18 |
House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973) |
1970-06-24 |
US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
1971-02-07 |
Switzerland votes in women's suffrage |
1971-10-25 |
UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China |
1971-10-26 |
UN votes to replace Taiwan with China |
1972-02-17 |
British Parliament votes to join European Common Market |
1972-09-25 |
Norway votes to join European common market |
1972-10-02 |
Danish population votes for membership of the European Common Market |
1973-11-27 |
Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP |
1973-12-06 |
NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) |
1974-07-27 |
House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment |
1974-07-30 |
House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
1975-07-22 |
US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee |
1976-01-12 |
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org |
1978-01-08 |
Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai |
1978-03-07 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb |
1978-04-18 |
Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 |
1979-03-22 |
NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) |
1979-11-26 |
Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years |
1980-02-05 |
Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
1980-04-01 |
Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games |
1981-02-25 |
Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 |
1981-02-25 |
Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved |
1981-09-18 |
Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. |
1982-07-23 |
Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) |
1983-09-14 |
US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner |
1983-10-10 |
Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
1985-03-19 |
Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile |
1986-08-05 |
US Senate votes for SDI-project ("Star Wars") |
1988-02-24 |
Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody |
1988-08-04 |
Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
1988-09-27 |
Senate votes for major federal tax code changes |
1988-12-02 |
UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains |
1989-03-26 |
1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins |
1990-02-25 |
Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas |
1990-05-04 |
Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence |
1990-06-21 |
US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass |
1990-08-06 |
UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
1990-09-17 |
Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing |
1990-10-02 |
US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to Supreme Court |
1991-02-10 |
Lithuania votes for independence from USSR |
1991-03-02 |
UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
1991-03-03 |
Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
1991-03-31 |
Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union |
1991-04-09 |
Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR |
1991-07-31 |
Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft |
1991-09-08 |
Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia |
1991-09-21 |
Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union |
1992-03-05 |
Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks |
1992-05-30 |
UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting |
1992-06-26 |
NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993 |
1992-09-16 |
FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service |
1992-09-17 |
House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates |
1992-09-19 |
UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia |
1992-09-20 |
France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty |
1992-12-03 |
UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia |
1993-04-21 |
Brazil votes against a monarchy |
1993-04-23 |
Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia |
1993-09-07 |
Brazil votes over importing monarchy |
1993-11-14 |
Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state |
1994-03-13 |
33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party |
1994-07-31 |
UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti |
1994-09-29 |
House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress |
1994-11-15 |
Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) |
1994-11-28 |
Norway votes against joining European Union |
1995-09-06 |
Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood |
1995-10-30 |
Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada |
1995-11-24 |
Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%) |
1995-12-13 |
US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations |
1997-07-09 |
Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband |
1997-09-11 |
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom. |
1999-10-26 |
Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. |
2002-11-14 |
The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. |
2003-03-24 |
The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. |
2004-01-01 |
In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. |
2005-06-06 |
The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich. |
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". |
2006-03-16 |
The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. |
2007-03-07 |
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. (yet to be implemented - 2014) |
2012-03-21 |
Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal |
2012-11-06 |
US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State |
2012-11-10 |
The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes |
2012-11-29 |
The UN votes to approve Palestine's status change from an observer to an observer state |
2013-01-20 |
Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum |
2013-02-05 |
UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage |
2013-05-20 |
The Church of Scotland votes to allow openly gay men and women to be ministers |
2014-02-22 |
Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position |
2014-07-14 |
The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops |
2014-09-18 |
Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom |
2015-10-29 |
EU Parliament votes to protect Edward Snowden |
2016-05-09 |
Trump-like mayor favoured as Philippines votes for new president |
2016-06-23 |
Britain votes on EU membership after tight and bitter campaign |
2016-06-24 |
Oil prices dive as Britain votes to leave EU |
2016-06-24 |
Sterling plunges to 31-year low, biggest ever fall, as UK votes Brexit |
2016-06-24 |
Britain votes to leave European Union |
2016-09-04 |
Hong Kong votes in first major poll since pro-democracy protests |
2016-11-09 |
California votes to legalize pot |
2017-01-14 |
US House votes to begin repealing Obamacare |
2017-03-29 |
Scotland Votes to Demand a Post-'Brexit' Independence Referendum |
2018-01-30 |
House panel votes to release Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias |
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Votes - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1857-08-09 |
Harriet May Mills, Votes for Women |
1872-04-04 |
Mary Ware Dennett, Votes for Women |
1886-08-06 |
Inez Millholland, Votes for Women |
1930-9-28 |
Peter Holden, The Great Man Votes |
Votes - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1916-11-25 |
Inez Millholland, Votes for Women |
1935-05-16 |
Harriet May Mills, Votes for Women |
