1940 Event Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1934 Event Turkish regiment decrees importing family names 1901 Event NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes 1873 Event President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians 1861 Event War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers 1843 Event Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy 1816 Event France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever 1808 Event Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names 1781 Event Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population 1588 Event Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia) 1269 Event King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
