2004 Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors
1999 John Minor Wisdom, American Judge
1998 U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1997 Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
1997 Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901
1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1996 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge, dies at 98
1996 Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1995 Warren E. Burger, American Judge
1995 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1995 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
1995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
1994 Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80
1993 Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46
1993 Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1992 John J Sirica, U.S., judge (Watergate), dies at 88
1992 Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1992 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
1992 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78
1992 Irving R Kaufman, federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1992 Irving R. Kaufman, American Judge
1991 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian International soccer judge, dies
1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1990 Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77
1989 U.S. Senate impeaches U.S. District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1988 J Skelly Wright, U.S. judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court
1987 Judge Anthony M. Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1986 Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1986 House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion
1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1981 Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV
1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1980 Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
1980 William O. Douglas, American Judge
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge
1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1976 Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
1975 Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet
1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
1974 Earl Warren, American Judge
1974 Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1971 Hugo Black, American Judge
1970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
1970 ... Haley, U.S. judge, shot dead
1969 Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29
1968 "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
1967 Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
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 Felix Frankfurter, American Judge
1964 Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge
1962 "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48
1962 Mike Judge, American Producer
1961 Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal
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 Learned Hand, American Judge
1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
1958 Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock
1958 Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
1957 Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
1953 U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1953 Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge
1952 Harry Anderson, Newport, Rhode Island, actor, Judge Harry Stone-Night Court
1950 Lance Ito, judge, O. J. Simpson trial
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge
1947 Roy Moore, American Judge
1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs
1946 Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
1945 Linda Davies, British Judge
1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court
1945 Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies
1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78
1944 David Pearl, British judge
1943 Ben Lindsey, American Judge
1942 Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 George Sutherland, English Judge
1942 Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker, Blockheads, /actor, Judge Dredd
1941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
1940 Heather Steel, British judge
1940 Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist, Here Comes the Judge
1939 David H. Souter, American Judge
1939 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City
1939 Giovanni Falcone, Italian Judge
1939 Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge
1938 Stuart McKinnon, high court judge
1938 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers
1938 Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1938 Lord Justice Ward, British judge
1937 Mark Potter, British court judge
1937 Charles W. Pickering, American Judge
1937 Simon Brown, British high court judge
1937 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1937 Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge
1937 Frederick Pollock, English Judge
1936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
1936 Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge
1936 James Rand, British judge, Advocate General
1936 Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge
1935 Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm and Chic players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series
1935 Fernand Schokweiler, British judge
1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Judge
1934 Richard Scott, British high court judge
1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1934 Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 Paul Gibson, British high court judge
1934 Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
1934 John Roch, high court judge
1933 Desmond Fennell, British high court judge
1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1933 Philip Otton, high court judge
1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Judge
1933 Terry J. Hatter, Jr., U.S. judge in California
1931 Denis Henry, British high court judge
1931 John Atkinson, Irish Judge
1931 Inge Bernstein, British judge
1930 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge
1930 Ivor Richardson, Judge, NZ Court of Appeals
1929 Michael Morland, High court judge
1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1926 Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
1925 James Pickles, judge
1924 Edward I Koch, New York City, Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89, /judge, People's Court
1924 Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor, Judge and the Assassin
1924 Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 William H. Webster, U.S., judge and head FBI/CIA
1924 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
1924 Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1922 Kitty Kallen, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, singer, Judge For Yourself
1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless
1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1920 Michael Eastham, high court judge
1920 Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner, Louisiana, judge, People's Court
1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge MCQuade buy New York Giants
1917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
1917 Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge, England
1916 Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36
1915 John Arnold, British high court judge
1914 Bernard Caulfield, judge
1914 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
1913 Henry Billings Brown, American Judge
1912 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, born in Chico, California, actor, Judge Roy Bean
1912 Arline Judge, actress, Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent
1911 Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1910 Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer, Judge Ti
1910 Irving R. Kaufman, American Judge
1910 Abe Fortas, American Judge
1909 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge
1909 August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisconsin, writer, Judge Peck Mysteries
1908 Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor, Judge Fulton-Persuaders
1908 Harry A. Blackmun, American Judge
1908 Arthur J. Goldberg, American Judge
1908 Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1907 Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judge
1907 Warren E. Burger, born in Minnesota, Supreme Court chief justice, 1969-86
1907 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge, Olympics 1932,36
1906 William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge
1905 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905 John Minor Wisdom, American Judge
1905 Lord Carew, born in Ireland, judge, dressage
1904 John J Sirica, U.S. federal judge, Watergate hearings
1904 John J. Sirica, Judge
1903 Basil Nield, judge/politician
1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
1902 Horace Gray, American Judge
1901 Anne Russell's "Girl and the judge," premieres in New York City
1900 John Cameron, judge
1899 William Hornby Steer, barrister and judge
1898 William O. Douglas, American Judge
1897 Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1894 Charles Bowen, English Judge
1890 Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge
1888 Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
1886 Hugo Black, American Judge
1883 Lord Birkett, England, judge, Nuremburg Trials
1883 Judge Jackson, composer
1876 Irvin S Cobb, Kentucky, writer/humorist, Old Judge Priest
1872 Learned Hand, born in Albany, New York, Chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
1870 Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
1869 Ben Lindsey, American Judge
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1864 John Gregg, U.S. judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1864 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, U.S. judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1862 Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge
1862 George Sutherland, English Judge
1853 Simon Greenleaf, American Judge
1852 Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge
1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1845 Frederick Pollock, English Judge
1844 John Atkinson, Irish Judge
1842 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
1836 Edward Livingston, American Judge
1836 Henry Billings Brown, American Judge
1835 John Marshall, American Judge
1835 Charles Bowen, English Judge
1828 Horace Gray, American Judge
1824 George Jessel, English Judge
1822 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46
1817 Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China
1814 Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1811 Samuel Chase, U.S. judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1805 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
1804 Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62
1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1799 William Paca, U.S. judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
1798 George Read, U.S. judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65
1798 James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55
1797 Oliver Wolcott, U.S. judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1796 Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64
1795 Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65
1786 Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister
1785 William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (Decl of Independ), dies at 55
1785 Stephen Hopkins, U.S. judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 78
1784 Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55
1783 Simon Greenleaf, American Judge
1779 George Ross, U.S. judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, Undine
1764 Edward Livingston, American Judge
1756 Joannes van der Linden, lawyer/judge, Ware Pleiter
1748 Edmund Gibson, English Judge
1742 James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer, Declaration of Independence
1741 Samuel Chase, judge, signed Decl of Ind
1740 William Paca, U.S. judge/signer, Declaration of Independence
1733 George Read, U.S. judge/signer, Declaration of Independence
1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer, Declaration of Independence
1730 George Ross, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence
1730 William Whipple, merchant/judge, Declaration of Independence signer
1729 Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge/signer, Decl of Independence
1728 Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer, Declaration of Independence
1726 Oliver Wolcott, U.S. judge/signer, Declar of Independence
1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
1624 Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown
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