* 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U. S. history, begins.

In the United States, the Organized Crime Control Act ( 1970 ) defines organized crime as " The unlawful activities of [...] a highly organized, disciplined association [...]".

RICO was enacted by section 901 ( a ) of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 ().

Hearings ... Ninety-first Congress, Second Session on S. 30, and Related Proposals, Relating to the Control of Organized Crime in the U. S. May 20, 21, 27 ; June 10, 11, 17 ; July 23, and Aug. 5, 1970.

In the United States, the witness Protection Program ( also known as the Witness Security Program, or WITSEC ) was established under Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which in turn sets out the manner in which the United States Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal or state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.

In Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Congress enacted the Explosives Control Act, 18 U. S. C. A.

The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (, October 15, 1970 ), was an Act of Congress sponsored by Democratic Senator John L. McClellan and signed into law by U. S. President Richard Nixon.

* October 15, 1970: Organized Crime Control Act, ( including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (" RICO ")

Organized in 1970, as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club band, Orchestre Baobab adapted the then current craze for Cuban Music ( growing out of the Congolese Soukous style ) in West Africa to Wolof Griot culture and the Mandinga musical traditions of the Casamance.

*" Pierre de Coubertin and the Introduction of Organized Sports in France " pages 3 – 26 from Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 5, 1970.

Organized in 1970

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the " Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads " and " Cheerleader All America " awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967.

Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982, the first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.

Organized by an early GLF leader Brenda Howard, the Stonewall riots were commemorated by annual marches that became known as Gay pride parades.

Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research ( AIR ), they are presented by a group that includes Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, and they are followed by a set of public lectures by the winners at MIT.

Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, women started gathering and praying in a fish market to protest the violence.

In any event, many countries are obligated by various international instruments and standards, such as the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the recommendations of the FATF to enact and enforce money laundering laws in an effort to stop narcotics trafficking, international organised crime, and corruption.

Organized by Natalia ' Saw Lady ' Paruz, 53 musical saw players performed together.

Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.

Organized by discNW, Spring Reign is the largest youth Ultimate tournament in the world.

Organized by Federação Paulista de Disco with the collaboration of BULA.

Organized by the Tuscan Flying Bish Association.

Organized by function, a website may be

Organized crime turns to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor, led by figures such as Al Capone, boss of the Chicago Outfit.

Organized by the Football Association.

* May 1 – The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States.

Category: Organized crime members by role

Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-515724-9 ( Organized-crime. de, Review by Klaus Von Lampe ) ( CCKA-ACJP. ca, Review by Alexandra V. Orlova )

Organized alphabetically, its content does indeed contain explanation not merely of the terms used in the arts and sciences, but of the arts and sciences themselves.

Organized in 1842, the orchestra is older than any other extant American symphonic institution by nearly four decades ; its record-setting 14, 000th concert was given in December 2004.

Organized under a federal form of government, Xenia elected Cornelius Clark as its first mayor in 1834.

The band is billed as " Oldest Continuously Organized German Band in the World outside Germany ", and in 1998 the Federal Republic of Germany recognized the Boerne Village Band for its contribution to the German heritage in Texas and America.

" Waterfalls ", an Organized Noise-produced song that featured an old-school soul-based musical arrangement, socially conscious lyrics criticizing drug dealing and unsafe sex, and an introspective rap from Lopes, became TLC's biggest hit, and its million-dollar music video was an MTV staple for many months.

Organized as the Delta of Tennessee Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society that December, the chapter inducted its first student members on April 4, 1953.

Organized Taoism distinguishes its ritual activity from that of the folk religion, which some professional Taoists ( Daoshi ) view as debased.

Organized crime in Russia began in its imperial period of Tsars, but it wasn't until the Soviet era that vory v zakone (" thieves-in-law ") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags ( Soviet prison labor camps ), and the Thieves ' Code became more defined.

" Organized labor, once a powerful force in the state, has fallen to its lowest membership in history.

It did not survive the distribution transition its parent made to PolyGram Records, and all of its recordings were deleted, save for those by Organized Konfusion, which were repressed under the new deal.

Other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion ; its challenging second album, Stress: The Extinction Agenda ( 1994 ), was widely acclaimed.

HQ, 78th Division was returned to the Organized Reserve List, and reallocated to the Second US Corps in Spring of 1921, with its area of allocation changed to New Jersey and Delaware.

The Smith-Binaggio connection and its effect on Mob business nationwide even played a part in Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 " Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce ", in particular the " Forrest Smith for Governor Club " This mafia influence greatly tainted the relationship between Smith and the national Democratic party.

Organized by Territorial Council in 1832, the township has continued to exist with its present boundaries since 1837.

Organized by the Red Sport International it is erroneously associated with the Soviet Union as its organizer.

Organized by union leader Miron Cozma, on 20 January 1999 an estimated 10-15, 000 set out on another mineriad from the Jiu Valley to Bucharest to force the government to change its policy, demand wage increases and re-opening of recently closed mines.

He authorized the APL to carry on its letterhead the words " Organized with the Approval and Operating under the Direction of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation.

In its resolution 55 / 61, the General Assembly recognized that an effective international legal instrument against corruption, independent of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime was desirable.

Organized as separate companies, the E & NA had built a section from Shediac, New Brunswick west to Saint John in the late 1850s but had gone bankrupt and the colonial government had assumed its operation.

In late 1965, the Commandant approved a plan to further reorganize the Organized Marine Corps Reserve so that the division / wing team would become a " mirror image " of its regular counterparts.

Organized in 1903 at the American Federation of Labor convention, the WTUL spent much of its early years trying to cultivate ties with the AFL leadership.

Organized Scouting spread to South Africa only a few months after its birth in Britain in 1907.

In 1950, the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Organized Crime started an investigation known as the Kefauver hearings, named after its chairman, Sen. Estes Kefauver.