** Department of Transportation

** Department of Corrections

** Department of Motor Vehicles

** Office of Special Investigations ( United States Department of Justice )

** State Office of Civil Rights, U. S. Department of State

** ED Office for Civil Rights, U. S. Department of Education

** HHS Office for Civil Rights, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

** Department of Arts & Languages

** Department of Theology

** Department of Philosophy

** Department of Earth Sciences

** Department of Physical Geography

** Department of Environmental Sciences and Innovation Studies

** Department of Human Geography and Urban Planning

** Department of Biology

** Department of Chemistry

** Department of Information and Computing Sciences

** Department of Mathematics

** Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

** Department of Physics and Astronomy

** Energy Research and Development Administration part of Department of Energy.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

** At Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first ballpoint pens go on sale at $ 12. 50 each.

** Defense minister

** Defense contractor

** English Defense

** 1 Air Defense Battery.

** RPG-30 One-shot disposable RPG launcher, with a ' precursor ' forerunner additional sub-munition, intended to defeat Active Defense Systems like Trophy

** United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.

** James Forrestal, U. S. Secretary of Navy and Defense ( suicide ) ( b. 1892 )

** The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.

** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.

** Robert McNamara, U. S. Secretary of Defense ( d. 2009 )

** First battle between the South African Defense Force and the armed wing of SWAPO-PLAN takes place at Ongulumbashe in Northern Namibia.

** STS-39: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Cape Canaveral to study instruments related to the Strategic Defense Initiative.

** Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, former Defense Minister and mayor of Madrid ( b. 1932 )

** The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their " Operation Peace for the Galilee ," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

** Vasile Milea, Romanian military officer and politician, minister of Defense ( suicide ) ( b. 1927 )

** Natural Resources Defense Council site on the Environmental Impacts of the World Trade Center Attacks

** Self Defense ... for Cowards-Rembrandt Films, Film Representations-William L. Snyder

** ( National Front for the Defense of the Revolution ) 1976-1989

** General Defense Command

** Air Defense Command ( Two Regiments, Three Batteries )

** The Defense

** First United States Department of Defense workshop on quantum computing and quantum cryptography is organized by United States Army physicists Charles M. Bowden, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Henry O. Everitt ; it takes place in February at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

** Patrick Butler for the Defense