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2006 Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court

2006 Samuel Alito sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

2005 Samuel Alito is nominated for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush

2005 John G. Roberts is confirmed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

2005 John G. Roberts is nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

2005 John G. Roberts, Jr. is nominated to the United States Supreme Court

2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18

2000 Supreme Court halts Florida vote recount

1998 Lewis Powell, Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90

1998 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr

1998 Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify

1998 Federal court rules that Monica Lewinsky does not have an immunity agreement with Kenneth Starr

1998 Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court

1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand

1997 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages

1997 Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh

1997 William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91

1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law

1997 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban

1997 Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

1996 Alexander Harman, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979, dies

1996 3 Philadelphia Federal Court judges overturn U.S. indecency ban on internet

1995 U.S. Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations

1995 Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78

1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes

1995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77

1994 Stephen G. Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994 New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights

1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins

1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns

1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court

1993 Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46

1993 Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered

1993 John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66

1993 U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail

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

1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown

1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)

1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire

1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs

1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song

1993 Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84

1993 Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (International Court of Justice), dies

1993 June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma

1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72

1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports

1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights

1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs

1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV

1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft

1992 U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes

1992 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78

1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum

1991 Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1991 U.S. Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case

1991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice

1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents

1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable

1991 U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion

1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race

1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney

1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus

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

1991 U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case

1991 Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides

1990 David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1990 U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court

1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court

1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years

1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known

1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag unconstitutional

1990 European court rules pension rights for both men and women

1990 New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case

1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines

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

1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

1989 Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (New Zealand protested US's use of a catamaran)

1989 New York City court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to U.S. (from New Zealand)

1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression

1989 U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting

1989 New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules

1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars and Stripes, in a New York court

1989 U.S. Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York City Board of Estimate

1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court

1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs

1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court

1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court

1988 U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

1988 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate

1988 Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery

1988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist

1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections

1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities

1988 U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist

1988 U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant

1988 Anthony M. Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1988 Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court

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)

1988 G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit

1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court

1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities

1987 Judge Anthony M. Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court

1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination

1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in October by senate

1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. announces his retirement

1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation

1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail

1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified

1987 U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4

1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court

1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court

1986 Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63

1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings

1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)

1986 World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal

1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court

1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead

1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes

1985 Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice 1958 - 1981, dies in New Hampshire at 70

1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law

1985 Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64

1985 U.S. renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise

1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit

1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials

1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts

1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1984 International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua

1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene

1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital

1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws

1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV

1983 U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination

1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions

1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion

1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver

1982 Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office

1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education

1982 Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71

1981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice

1981 Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV

1981 Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional

1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court

1981 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions

1980 President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court

1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

1980 Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patented

1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages

1980 U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran

1980 William O Douglas, member U.S. Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81

1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages

1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center

1979 L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask

1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities

1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars

1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms

1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected

1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life

1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more

1978 U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976

1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise

1977 Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in New York at 77

1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws

1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell

1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses

1977 Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license

1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore

1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers

1976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator

1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1975 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years

1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

1975 Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools

1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation

1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

1974 Earl Warren, Governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83

1974 Bumper Robinson, actor, Webster, Night Court

1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1973 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62)

1973 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64)

1973 U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military

1973 Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California

1973 Roe vs Wade: U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1973 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)

1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual

1972 U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws

1972 U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote

1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

1972 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1971 Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court

1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1971 William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan

1971 Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64

1971 Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia

1971 Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61

1971 U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

1971 Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73

1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

1970 84th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)

1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional

1970 Harry A. Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court

1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court

1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court

1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee

1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years

1970 Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court 1996 Olympics

1970 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)

1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial

1969 83rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)

1969 U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)

1969 Warren E. Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice

1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from House

1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

1969 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional

1968 Dawn Allinger, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, team handball back court, 1996 Olympics

1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns

1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing

1968 Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court 1996 Olympics

1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65

1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice

1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1966 U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional

1966 Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene

1966 Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W. Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966

1965 John Keller, Jr., Toledo Ohio, team handball back court 1996 Olympics

1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice

1965 Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional

1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

1965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66

1965 Kim Clarke, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, team handball back court, 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1964 Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70

1964 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)

1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut

1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years

1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages

1964 U.S. Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs. Sanders)

1963 Carol Peterka, Little Falls, Minnesota, team handball back court, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1963 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64)

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers

1962 Byron R. White becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1962 Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court

1962 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss

1962 76th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)

1962 Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional

1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature

1962 U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation

1961 Barbara Potter, Connecticut, tennis player, changed shirt on Wimbledon Court

1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court

1961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of U.S. court of Appeals, dies at 89

1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court

1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

1961 Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films

1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1959 Supreme court rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional

1958 Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court

1958 U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate

1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

1956 William J. Brennan, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1956 William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court

1956 Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const

1956 U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses

1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group

1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1954 Catherine Crier, born in Dallas, Texas, former district court judge, television personality, writer, anchor Court TV program

1954 Sonia Sotomayor, born in the Bronx, New York City, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, third female Supreme Court justice

1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision

1954 Marsha Warfield, comedian/actress, Roz-Night Court

1953 U.S. Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1953 Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1953 Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary

1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1953 U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

1952 Elayne Boosler, comedienne, Night Court

1952 Harry Anderson, Newport, Rhode Island, actor, Judge Harry Stone-Night Court

1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest

1950 Markie Post, Marjorie, Palo Alto Cal, actress, Christine-Night Court

1950 U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

1949 U.N. International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages

1949 Pamela Reed, born in Tacoma, Washington, actress, Grand, Kindergarten Cop, Home Court

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1948 California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages

1948 Clarence Thomas, born in Savannah, Georgia, 108th U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1991-

1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death

1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands

1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional

1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Sipuel vs. Oklahoma State Board of Regents)

1947 John Larroquette, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Dan Fielding-Night Court

1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels

1946 U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court

1946 U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau

1946 U.S. Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

1946 U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional

1946 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73

1945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death

1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg

1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court

1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional

1943 Paula Kelly, born in Jacksonville, Florida, dancer/actress, Liz-Night Court

1943 Richard Moll, Cal, actor, Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor

1942 U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal

1942 Margaret Smith Court, born in Australia, tennis pro, 1970 Grand Slam

1941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84

1941 Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre

1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and max hours

1940 Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft

1940 Paul Rudd, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'

1939 David H Souter, Weir, New Hampshire, 107th Supreme Court Justice, 1990-

1939 New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead

1939 Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge

1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

1938 Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice

1938 Stuart McKinnon, high court judge

1938 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge

1937 Mark Potter, British court judge

1937 Senate rejects Franklin D.. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1937 Peter M. Harris, Official Solicitor, Supreme Court

1937 Simon Brown, British high court judge

1937 Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge

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

1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed

1936 Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice

1936 Anthony Kennedy, born in California, 106th Supreme Court justice, 1988-

1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin

1936 Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge

1936 Antonin Scalia, born in Trenton, New Jersey, 105th Supreme Court Justice, 1986-

1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray

1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional

1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)

1935 Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage, Wisconsin

1934 Richard Scott, British high court judge

1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1934 Anthony Evans, British high court judge

1934 Paul Gibson, British high court judge

1934 Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge

1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court

1934 John Roch, high court judge

1933 Desmond Fennell, British high court judge

1933 Philip Otton, high court judge

1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice, U.S. Supreme Court

1933 Charles Johnson, born in Tacoma, Washington, born Charles W. Johnson, Justice Johnson, judge, Associate Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court of the State of Washington

1931 Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist, CBS News, Court TV

1931 Denis Henry, British high court judge

1930 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater

1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City

1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution

1930 Ivor Richardson, Judge, New Zealand Court of Appeals

1930 Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, born in Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice, 1981-

1930 Anne Macfarlane, Master, Court of Protection

1929 Michael Morland, High court judge

1929 Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

1926 U.S. Customs Court created by congress

1926 Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal

1926 Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge

1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands

1926 U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court

1925 Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier, court jester of beliefs

1925 Silvana Pampanini, Rome, Italy, actress, Day in Court, Island Sinner

1925 Mel Torme, born in Chicago, Illinois, jazz singer "Velvet Fog", Jet Set, Night Court

1925 Jack Kramer, actor, Kings of the Court

1925 John Knox, British supreme court justice

1925 Lord Hooson QC, crown court recorder

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

1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas

1924 Edward I Koch, New York City, Mayor-D-NYC, 1977 - 1989, judge, People's Court

1924 William Rehnquist, Supreme Court, 1972-86, chief justice, 1987-

1924 Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge

1924 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge

1924 Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge

1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

1923 U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague

1923 Florence Halop, Queens, actress, Florence-Night Court, St. Elsewhere

1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

1922 U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote

1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional

1921 Alexander Harman, born in Athens, West Virginia, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979

1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague

1920 Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne, Selma-Night Court

1920 Michael Eastham, high court judge

1920 Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge

1920 John Paul Stevens, born in Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1975-

1920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice

1919 Joseph Albert Wapner, Louisiana, judge, People's Court

1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas

1917 Byron R. Whizzer White, born in Ft. Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just, 1962-93

1917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge

1917 Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge, England

1917 U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees

1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years

1916 British court martial (Easter uprising)

1916 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson

1915 John Arnold, British high court judge

1915 Potter Stewart, Michigan, 94th Supreme Court justice, 1958-81

1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court

1914 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam

1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court

1912 Edward Gardner, Queen's Court/MP

1911 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)

1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act

1911 G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Supreme Court Justice, Gov-D-Michigan, 1949-60

1908 Harry A Blackmun, Illinois, 100th Supreme Court justice, 1970-94

1908 Arthur J Goldberg, Illinois, United Nations ambassador/Supreme Court justice, 1962-65

1908 Thurgood Marshall, born in Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice, 1967-91

1908 Jack Jacob, senior master, British Supreme Court

1908 Neil Lawson, British high court judge

1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

1907 Lewis F Powell, Jr., Virginia, Supreme Court justice, 1972-87

1907 Warren E. Burger, born in Minnesota, Supreme Court chief justice, 1969-86

1905 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice

1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court

1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional

1904 John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US

1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became Associate Justice on Supreme Court

1902 Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial,

1901 Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1957-62

1899 John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice, 1955-71

1898 William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice, 1939-75

1896 U.S. Supreme Court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson)

1896 Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68

1895 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court

1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court

1894 Charles Meredith, Knoxville, Pennsylvania, actor, Court of Last Resort

1892 Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice, 1941-54

1891 Earl Warren, California, Gov-R-Ca, 14th supreme court chief justice, 1953 - 1969

1890 Fred M Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1946-53

1890 Fred M Vinson, Kentucky, 13th Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1946-53

1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens

1886 Hugo L. Black, born in Alabama, Senator-D-Alabama, 78th Supreme Court justice, 1937 - 1971

1883 U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans

1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

1882 Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna, Austria, 80th Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62

1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court

1878 U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883

1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

1872 Harlan Fiske Stone, New Hampshire, Supreme Court, 1925 - 1941, Chief Justice, 1941 - 1946

1872 Learned Hand, born in Albany, New York, Chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC

1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1865 J. S. Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar

1864 Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87

1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia

1864 Battle of Antietam, Virginia (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)

1863 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)

1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA

1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1862 Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1930-41

1861 Skirmish at Boone Court House WV and Blue Creek WV

1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ

1858 Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies

1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens

1856 Louis D. Brandeis, Massachusetts, 68th Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39

1855 U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government

1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

1854 Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer

1846 Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76

1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens

1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, born in Massachusetts, 59th Supreme Court justice, 1902-32

1838 Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73

1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

1830 Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney, 1st lady to argue in Supreme Court

1816 U.S. Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

1811 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83

1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92

1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state

1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins

1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs. Madison)

1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court

1790 Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (New York City)

1789 Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court

1789 Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken

1784 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56

1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)

1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals

1779 Joseph Story, Massachusetts, 19th Supreme Court justice, 1812-45

1778 Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter, Court of Death

1778 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass

1777 Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62

1775 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal, Court in Rio de Janeiro

1774 Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54

1773 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish, court, painter

1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80

1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68

1768 Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82

1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69

1755 John Marshall, Virginia, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1801-35

1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia

1745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court, 1796-1800

1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court

1730 Augustin Pajou, French, court, sculptor, Psyche abandonnee

1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish, court, painter

1728 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer

1720 Johann Friedrich Agricola, German, court, composer/organist

1716 Joseph M Vien, French, court, painter

1715 Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian, court, composer/pianist

1715 Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria, court, composer/pianist

1709 Abraham a Santa Clara, Johann Megerle, Germ court vicar, dies at 65

1698 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect, Palace de la Concorde

1695 Francois the Cuvillies, Belgian court architect of Bayern

1691 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist

1685 Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67

1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory

1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer

1672 Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48

1660 Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61

1654 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch court clerk of States-General, dies at 66

1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"

1644 Abraham a Santa Clara, Johann Megerle, German court vicar

1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide

1641 General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution

1639 1st annulment by court decree passes

1630 In Boston the 1st general court is held

1612 Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I

1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies

1600 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk

1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies

1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"

1539 Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies

1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings


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