Capsule Chronology/11

1902 ....................Compulsory school attendance law passed.

1904, Feb. 7 ..............Baltimore fire.

1909, April 6..............Matthew Henson, of Charles County, reached North Pole with Robert

Peary

1915,  Nov. 2..............Referendum and County Home Rule amendments adopted.

1916,  Nov. 7..............Executive budget process established by Constitutional amendment man-

dating balanced State budgets.

1920 ....................Merit system established for State employees.

1931, March 3............."Star-Spangled Banner" adopted as national anthem.

1937 ....................State income tax instituted.

1937,  June 1 ..............City of Greenbelt chartered, a New Deal model community.

1938,  June................National Institutes of Health established in Bethesda.

1941, Dec. 7..............U. S. S. Maryland among naval ships attacked at Pearl Harbor.

1947, July 1...............State sales tax instituted.

1948 ....................Montgomery became first county to adopt charter form of government.

1950, June 24.............Friendship International Airport (later BWI) began operation.

1952, July 31..............Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened.

1955,  Sept................Desegregation of public schools begun.

1956 ....................Voting machines used for elections throughout State.

1956,  Dec.................Baltimore urban renewal begun.

1957,  Nov. 29.............Baltimore Harbor Tunnel opened.

1959, May................Goddard Space Flight Center opened in Greenbelt.

1963,  June 11.............Cambridge riots. National Guard remained through May 1965.

1964,  April 7..............Public accommodations law enacted.

1967, June 21.............Opening of Columbia, a planned community incorporating one-tenth of

the land area of Howard County

1967, July 25..............Cambridge riots.

1967,  Sept. 12-1968, Jan. 10. Constitutional Convention of 1967-1968.

1968,  May 14 .............Proposed State Constitution rejected by voters.

1970, Spring..............Student rebellion at University of Maryland, College Park.

1973 ....................Second parallel Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened.

1973 ....................Urban "homesteading" begun in Baltimore. City sold abandoned houses

for $1 each to buyers for renovation.

1976 ....................Maryland Science Center opened in Baltimore.

1980 ....................Maryland and Virginia established Chesapeake Bay Commission to co-

ordinate interstate legislative planning and programs to restore Bay
resources.

1980, July 2...............Harborplace, a 3-acre center of restaurants and shops, opened in Baltimore

City, signaling the revitalization of Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

1981 ....................National Aquarium opened in Baltimore.

1983, Dec. 9..............Chesapeake Bay Agreement to improve water quality and living resources

of the Bay signed by Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of
Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Commission, and U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency

1985 ....................Pennsylvania joined Chesapeake Bay Commission.

1987, Dec. 14.............Chesapeake Bay Agreement to restore and protect the Bay signed by

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of Columbia, Chesa-
peake Bay Commission, and U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency