** Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany ) showing the Guggenheim Collection in 2006-2007

** Haus der Geschichte ( Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany )

** Itemized deduction, eligible expense that individual taxpayers in the United States can report on their Federal income tax returns

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

** Dirksen Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago

** Kluczynski Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago

** Federal Presidents of Austria

** Members of the Swiss Federal Council

** Federal Chancellors of Switzerland

** UFRJ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

** Federal Police Force

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** Canada: A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada.

** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** War in Somalia ( 2009 – present ) – involved largely the forces of the Somali Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) assisted by African Union peacekeeping troops, whom fought against various militant Islamist factions for control of the country.

** The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.

** Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

** Flavio Cotti, Swiss Federal Councilor

** W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant ( d. 2008 )

** The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared ( this day is celebrated as Republic Day until the 1990s ).

** Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Federal Councilor

** Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor

** Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor

** Communications

** The permanent secretariat of the ECC is the European Communications Office ( ECO )

** Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications ()

** Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation ( Comsat ) are offered for sale at $ 20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

** International Organization and System of Space Communications ( Intersputnik ) ( effective 12 July 1972 ).

** The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to " fairly " present controversial issues.

** Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner.

** Telecommunications Service Priority ( TSP )-provides service vendors with a Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) mandate for prioritizing service requests by identifying those services critical to NS / EP.

** Individual Mobilization Augmentee ( IMA )-The National Communications System ( NCS ) Augmentee Program was established in 1988 to provide a cadre of skilled civilian and military reservists to enhance the efforts of the Office of the Manager, NCS ( OMNCS ), the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications ( NCC ), and NCS Regional Managers ( RMs ) during national crises and emergencies.

** Paul Baran, On Distributed Communications: I Introduction to Distributed Communications Network ( RAND Memorandum RM-3420-PR.

** 5th Combat Communications Group

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