On Apr. 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held and the modern environmental movement was born. A…
On Feb. 27, 1970, in Upjohn v. Finch the Court of Appeals upheld enforcement of the 1962 drug…
In 1970, Senator Norris Cotton secured a $3 million federal grant to build rural New England’s first regional…
On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
In 1968, Ted Stevens, Alaska’s senior Senator, was elected to the U.S. Congress. His tenure made him the…
On Nov. 3, 1966, the Child Protection Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The bill enlarged the…
On Oct. 15, 1966, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Sea Grant College Program Act. Today, the National…
On Aug. 24, 1966, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that became known as the Animal Welfare Act (P.L….
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959. He…
On Jul. 10, 1963, the U.S. FDA approved vincristine, a sister drug to vinblastine. The drug was established…
In 1963, the U.S. Congress established the Immunization Grant Program; polio incidence plummeted to only 396 reported cases…
On Oct. 10, 1962, the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments were signed into law by President Kennedy. The Legislation was…
On Mar. 15, 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed a Consumer Bill of Rights in a message to…
On Oct. 6, 1961, the National Congress on Medical Quackery convened in Washington, D.C. sponsored jointly by the…
In September 1961, U. S. Congress authorized the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct a study of…
On Aug. 23, 1961, The Committee on the National Medal of Science was established by President John F….
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy in his historic message to a joint session of the…
In 1961, Congress established National Poison Prevention Week to raise awareness, reduce unintentional poisonings, and promote poison prevention….
In Jun. 1960, the U.S. Congress passed an appropriations bill that included funding for a Federal Insect Laboratory…
On Aug. 25, 1959, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress as a Presidential…
On Sept. 6, 1958, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Additives Amendments were passed, requiring that…
On Mar. 4, 1956, Sandia opened second laboratory and transferred personnel from Albuquerque to Livermore, California and began…
On Apr. 1, 1955, the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center was established in the institute…
In 1955, the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress, the first federal involvement in…
On Jul. 30, 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration was official with the Small Business Act, but it…
On Apr. 11, 1953, the Federal Security Agency (FSA) becomes the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)….
In 1953, the U.S. Congress enacted the Factory Inspection Amendment which clarified previous law and required the U.S….
On Sept. 23, 1951, the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) was established in Rome during the first…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
Sandia began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National…