1902
1904,Feb 7
1909, April 6

1915, Nov 2
1916, Nov 7

1920
1931, March 3
1937
1937,June 1
1938,June
1941, Dec 7
1947, July 1
1948
1950, June 24
1952, July 31
1955,Sept
1956
1956, Dec
1957, Nov 29
1959, May
1963, June 11
1964, April 7
1967, June 21

1967, July 25
1967, Sept 12-1968, Jan 10
1968, May 14
1970, Spring
1973
1973

1976
1980

1980, July 2

1981
1983, Dec 9

1985
1987, Dec 14

Capsule Chronology/17

Compulsory school attendance law passed
Baltimore fire Seventy blocks in heart of business district devastated

Matthew Henson, of Charles County, reached North Pole with Robert
Peary

Referendum and County Home Rule amendments adopted

Executive budget process established by Constitutional amendment man
dating balanced State budgets

Merit system established for Stare employees
"Star Spangled Banner" adopted as national anthem
State income tax instituted
City ofGreenbelt chartered, a New Deal model community
National Institutes of Health established in Bechesda
U S S Maryland among naval ships attacked at Pearl Harbor
State sales tax instituted
Montgomery became first county to adopt charter form of government
Friendship International Airport (later BWI) began operation
Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened
Desegregation of public schools begun
Voting machines used for elections throughout State
Baltimore urban renewal begun
Baltimore Harbor Tunnel opened
Goddard Space Flight Center opened in Greenbelt
Cambridge nots National Guard remained through May 1965
Public accommodations law enacted

Opening of Columbia, a planned community incorporating one tenth of
the land area of Howard County

Cambridge nors
Constitutional Convention of 1967-1968
Proposed State Constitution rejected by voters
Student rebellion at University of Maryland, College Park
Second parallel Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened

Urban "homesteading" begun in Baltimore City sold abandoned houses
for $1 each to buyers for renovation

Maryland Science Center opened in Baltimore

Maryland and Virginia established Chesapeake Bay Commission to co
ordinate interstate legislative planning and programs to restore Bay
resources

Harborplace, a 3-acre center of restaurants and shops, opened in Baltimore
City, signaling the revitahzanon of Baltimore's Inner Harbor

National Aquarium opened in Baltimore

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

Pennsylvania joined Chesapeake Bay Commission

Chesapeake Bay Agreement to restore and protect the Bay signed by
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of Columbia,
Chesapeake Bay Commission, and U S Environmental Protection
Agency