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2013 Event - Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book

2013 Event - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer breaks his shoulder on a fall from his bicycle and is taken to the hospital by ambulance

2013 Event - Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of Kenya's Presidential election by the Supreme Court of Kenya

2013 Event - The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, asserts he will have the International Court of Justice in The Hague solve the border dispute between Bolivia and Chile

2013 Event - A court grants Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use her own name; after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name, the Reykjavik court rules it could also be used as a girl's name

2013 Event - In the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist posts on Twitter, a French court orders the company to reveal personal information about its users

2012 Event - A customary law which prevented women from inheriting their family home, is overturned by the high court of Botswana

2012 Event - The U.S. court ruling banning the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is overturned, winning a round for Google's Android against Apple

2012 Event - Australia's High Court upholds legislation providing for cigarettes to have plain packaging

2012 Event - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that minor's cannot be automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole

2012 Event - A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China

2012 Event - In Illinois, a Cook County Circuit Court rules that the tax Amazon.com levied on Internet businesses by the U.S. state of Illinois is unconstitutional

2012 Event - Ahead of court martial, suspect U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged with turning over a massive cache of classified documents to Wikileaks

2012 Event - California's Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in that state was overturned by the U.S. States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

2012 Event - A law banning Palestinians who marry Israeli's from gaining citizenship is upheld by Israel's Supreme Court

2011 Event - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured in Libya; he will be tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court

2011 Event - Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab

2011 Event - President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

2011 Event - In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court rules that same-sex couples receive the same rights of existing civil unions

2011 Event - By order of an Egyptian court, the name of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, is stripped from public spaces, schools and streets

2011 Event - In Egypt, the court orders the former ruling National Democratic Part of Hosni Mubarak be dissolved

2011 Event - Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling loses his appeal against his conviction for fraud in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

2010 Event - A male Algerian is fined by a court in Nice for insulting the French national flag; this was the first such penalty ever to be administered

2010 Event - A court settlement determines Verizon must pay $25 million to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cell phone customers

2010 Event - In one of Spain's biggest corruption trials, 95 people, including two former mayors and a planning chief, appear in court in Malaga

2010 Event - Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States

2010 Event - After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine

2010 Event - The declaration of Victor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine is suspended by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine

2009 Event - A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2000 Event - Supreme Court halts Florida vote recount

1998 Death - Lewis Powell, Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90

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

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

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

1998 Event - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand

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

1997 Event - Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh

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

1997 Event - Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law

1997 Event - Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban

1997 Event - 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 Event - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

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

1996 Death - Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1994 Event - Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights

1994 Event - Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins

1994 Event - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994 Event - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

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

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

1993 Death - Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46

1993 Death - Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered

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

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

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

1993 Event - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1992 Event - Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports

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

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

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

1992 Event - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft

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

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

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

1991 Event - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

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

1991 Event - Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1990 Event - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

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

1990 Event - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court

1990 Event - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years

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

1990 Event - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

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

1990 Event - European court rules pension rights for both men and women

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

1990 Event - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1989 Event - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1988 Event - Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections

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

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

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

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

1988 Event - Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court

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

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

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

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

1987 Event - Judge Anthony M. Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court

1987 Event - Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

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

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

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

1987 Event - Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation

1987 Event - Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail

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

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

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

1986 Event - Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court

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

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

1986 Event - Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings

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

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

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

1986 Event - English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead

1986 Event - Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes

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

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

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

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

1984 Event - Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit

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

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

1984 Event - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1983 Event - Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion

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

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

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

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

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

1982 Death - Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71

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

1981 Event - Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV

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

1981 Event - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

1981 Event - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1979 Event - Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center

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

1979 Event - Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities

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

1979 Event - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

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

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

1978 Event - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

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

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

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

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

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

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

1977 Event - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

1977 Event - 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise

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

1977 Event - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws

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

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

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

1976 Event - Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore

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

1976 Event - Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

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

1975 Event - John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice

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

1975 Event - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

1975 Event - Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools

1975 Event - Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation

1974 Event - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

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

1974 Birthday - Bumper Robinson, actor, Webster, Night Court

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

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

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

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

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

1973 Event - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

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

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

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

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

1972 Event - California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

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

1972 Event - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1971 Event - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1971 Event - Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court

1971 Event - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice

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

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

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

1971 Event - Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61

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

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

1971 Event - Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

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

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

1970 Event - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional

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

1970 Event - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1969 Event - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

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

1969 Event - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

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

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

1968 Event - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns

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

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

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

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

1967 Event - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice

1967 Event - Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

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

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

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

1966 Event - 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 Birthday - John Keller, Jr., Toledo Ohio, team handball back court 1996 Olympics

1965 Event - Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice

1965 Event - Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional

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

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

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

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

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

1964 Event - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1962 Event - Byron R. White becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1962 Event - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court

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

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

1962 Event - Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional

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

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

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

1961 Event - Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1959 Event - Supreme court rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional

1958 Event - Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court

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

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

1956 Event - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

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

1956 Event - William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court

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

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

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

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

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

1954 Birthday - Murtaza Bhutto, born in Karachi Pakistan, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court

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

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

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

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

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

1953 Event - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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

1953 Event - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1953 Event - 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 Birthday - Elayne Boosler, comedienne, Night Court

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

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

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

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

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

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

1949 Event - Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1948 Event - California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages

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

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

1948 Event - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands

1948 Event - Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1945 Event - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg

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

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

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

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

1942 Event - U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal

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

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

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

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

1940 Event - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft

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

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

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

1939 Birthday - Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge

1939 Event - Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

1938 Birthday - Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice

1938 Birthday - Stuart McKinnon, high court judge

1938 Birthday - John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge

1937 Birthday - Mark Potter, British court judge

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

1937 Birthday - Peter M. Harris, Official Solicitor, Supreme Court

1937 Birthday - Simon Brown, British high court judge

1937 Birthday - Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge

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

1936 Birthday - Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice

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

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

1936 Birthday - Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge

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

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

1935 Event - Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional

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

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

1934 Birthday - Richard Scott, British high court judge

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

1934 Birthday - Anthony Evans, British high court judge

1934 Birthday - Paul Gibson, British high court judge

1934 Birthday - Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge

1934 Event - Nazi-Germany begins People's court

1934 Birthday - John Roch, high court judge

1933 Birthday - Desmond Fennell, British high court judge

1933 Birthday - Philip Otton, high court judge

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

1933 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist, CBS News, Court TV

1931 Birthday - Denis Henry, British high court judge

1930 Event - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater

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

1930 Event - Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution

1930 Birthday - Ivor Richardson, Judge, New Zealand Court of Appeals

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

1930 Birthday - Anne Macfarlane, Master, Court of Protection

1929 Birthday - Michael Morland, High court judge

1929 Event - Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

1927 Event - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

1926 Event - U.S. Customs Court created by congress

1926 Birthday - Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal

1926 Birthday - Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge

1926 Event - German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands

1926 Event - U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court

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

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

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

1925 Birthday - Jack Kramer, actor, Kings of the Court

1925 Birthday - John Knox, British supreme court justice

1925 Birthday - Lord Hooson QC, crown court recorder

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

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

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

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

1924 Birthday - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge

1924 Birthday - Peter Webster, British High Court Judge

1924 Birthday - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge

1923 Event - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

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

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

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

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

1922 Event - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

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

1921 Event - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional

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

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

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

1920 Birthday - Michael Eastham, high court judge

1920 Birthday - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge

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

1920 Birthday - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice

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

1918 Event - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

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

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

1917 Birthday - Derek Hodgson, British high court judge

1917 Birthday - Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge, England

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

1916 Event - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years

1916 Event - British court martial (Easter uprising)

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

1915 Birthday - John Arnold, British high court judge

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

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

1914 Birthday - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam

1913 Event - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court

1912 Birthday - Edward Gardner, Queen's Court/MP

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

1911 Event - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act

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

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

1908 Birthday - Arthur J. Goldberg, born in Illinois, United Nations ambassador and Supreme Court justice, 1962 - 1965

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

1908 Birthday - Jack Jacob, senior master, British Supreme Court

1908 Birthday - Neil Lawson, British high court judge

1908 Event - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

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

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

1905 Birthday - Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice

1905 Event - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1888 Event - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens

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

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

1883 Event - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

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

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

1879 Event - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court

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

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

1874 Event - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

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

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

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

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

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

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

1864 Event - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia

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

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

1863 Event - Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA

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

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

1861 Event - Skirmish at Boone Court House WV and Blue Creek WV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1854 Birthday - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer

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

1843 Event - Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens

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

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

1837 Event - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

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

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

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

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

1809 Event - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state

1804 Event - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins

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

1795 Event - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court

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

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

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

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

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

1780 Event - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals

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

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

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

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

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

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

1773 Birthday - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish, court, painter

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

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

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

1760 Death - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69

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

1753 Event - Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia

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

1737 Event - Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court

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

1728 Birthday - Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish, court, painter

1728 Birthday - Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer

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

1716 Birthday - Joseph M Vien, French, court, painter

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

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

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

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

1695 Birthday - Francois the Cuvillies, Belgian court architect of Bayern

1691 Birthday - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist

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

1682 Event - Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory

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

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

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

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

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

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

1644 Event - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide

1641 Event - General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution

1639 Event - 1st annulment by court decree passes

1630 Event - In Boston the 1st general court is held

1612 Event - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I

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

1600 Birthday - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk

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

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

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

1460 Event - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings













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