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1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible

1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks

1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history

1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977

1988 U.S. swamps New Zealand at 27th America's Cup: New Zealand set to appeal

1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

1984 Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson

1981 Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City

1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal

1957 Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor, Mass Appeal

1953 President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN

1937 Christopher Rose, born in England, Lord Justice Rose, Sir Christopher Rose, judge, member, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, served Court of Appeal of England and Wales

1935 Trevor Chinn, born in England, businessman, CEO, Lex Garages, entrepreneur, philanthropist, President, the Joint Israel Appeal

1934 Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement

1933 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal

1931 Lord Michael Mustill, of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal

1927 Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal

1927 John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal, Northern Ireland

1926 Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal

1925 Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal

1925 John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal

1925 Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary

1925 U.S. Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult

1923 Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal

1923 Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal

1920 Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal, Ordinary

1919 Robert Lowry, born in Ireland, judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Baron Lowry of Crossgar in the County of Down

1909 John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal

1907 Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal

1906 Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal

1891 Congress creates U.S. Courts of Appeal

1830 David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44

1829 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston

1785 David Walker, Wilmington, North Carolina, abolitionist, Appeal to Colored Citizens

1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht


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