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2013 Event - Russia enacts a law that bans smoking in schools and on subways

2012 Event - The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

2012 Event - A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act

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

2012 Event - The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement'

2012 Event - Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's President, signs a controversial law concerning the status of 18 languages as regional and minority languages; the law allows officials in Russian-speaking regions of the country to use Russian in documents and at public events

2012 Event - Patent law disputes between Samsung and Apple deadlock as the dispute addresses valuation of each other's patents

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

2011 Event - Riots in England continue; Prime Minister David Cameron hires U.S. law enforcement officer Bill Bratton to advise on dealing with gang-related violence

2011 Event - New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the New York State Marriage Equality Law

2011 Event - After days of protests, martial law is declared in Xilinhot, a city located in Inner Mongolia

2011 Event - In France, a law banning wearing the burqa and hijab goes into effect

2011 Event - Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistan to repeal its blasphemy law whereby those who insult the Prophet Muhammed receive the death penalty

2010 Event - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, says cultural genocide is happening as a result of the Chinese law requiring Mandarin as the language of instruction in Tibetan schools

2010 Event - Indonesian rights groups applaud the end of a Suharto-era law that bans books deemed 'offensive' or a 'threat to public order'

2008 Event - President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law

2004 Death - Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69

1998 Event - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand

1998 Event - U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional

1997 Event - California law ends affirmative-action

1997 Event - Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law

1997 Event - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law

1996 Death - 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year

1996 Death - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85

1995 Death - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72

1994 Event - Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run

1994 Event - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

1993 Death - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies

1992 Death - Vincent Gardenia, actor (All in the Family, LA Law), dies at 71

1992 Death - Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71

1992 Death - John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51

1992 Event - Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye

1991 Event - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her

1991 Death - Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93

1991 Event - 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig

1991 Event - Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad

1991 Event - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs

1990 Event - Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1990 Event - 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig

1990 Event - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win

1990 Event - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

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

1990 Death - David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38

1990 Event - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies

1990 Event - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations

1990 Event - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody

1990 Event - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)

1989 Event - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush

1989 Death - Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71

1989 Event - 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany and Candice Bergen win

1989 Event - China declares martial law in Beijing

1989 Event - Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy

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

1988 Event - LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays

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

1988 Death - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69

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

1987 Death - Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91

1987 Event - 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins

1987 Event - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

1986 Event - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV

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

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

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

1985 Event - Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed

1985 Event - U.S.'s 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect in New York

1983 Event - Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law

1983 Event - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law

1982 Event - Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)

1982 Event - "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39

1982 Event - Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland

1981 Event - Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists

1980 Event - US's copyright law amended to include computer programs

1980 Event - Afghanistan declares martial law

1980 Event - Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski

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 - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect

1978 Event - President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909

1977 Event - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1976 Event - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law

1976 Event - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)

1975 Death - Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67

1975 Event - Italy broadens abortion law

1975 Death - Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78

1974 Event - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

1974 Birthday - Ty Law, NFL cornerback for the New England Patriots

1974 Death - Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at 64

1973 Event - President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

1973 Death - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82

1973 Event - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1972 Birthday - Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain'

1972 Event - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law

1972 Event - Marcos declares martial law in Philippines

1971 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

1970 Event - International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule

1970 Event - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law

1969 Death - Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66

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

1968 Birthday - Stuart Law, cricketer, prolific Queensland batsman, Australia 1995

1968 Event - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

1968 Event - Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1968 Event - Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1967 Death - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61

1967 Event - James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes

1967 Event - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

1967 Event - Martial Law goes into effect in Greece

1966 Death - Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22

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

1964 Event - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson

1964 Birthday - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor, Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident

1964 Birthday - Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law

1964 Event - President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1964 Event - U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights

1964 Birthday - Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois, maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, first African-American First Lady of the United States, husband to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, employed by Sidley Austin law firm and University of Chicago Medical Center

1963 Event - Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas

1963 Event - Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women

1963 Death - Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70

1962 Birthday - Amanda Donohoe, born in London, actress, CJ Lamb-LA Law

1961 Event - President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)

1961 Event - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1960 Event - Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award

1958 Birthday - Gary Oldman, actor, Sid and Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace

1958 Birthday - Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1957 Death - Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87

1957 Event - New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

1957 Death - Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (Within the Law), dies

1957 Death - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78

1957 Birthday - Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress, Abby Perkins-LA Law

1956 Birthday - Lee Roy Parnell, Abilene Texas, country singer, Oughta be a Law

1956 Birthday - Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis

1955 Event - Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH

1955 Birthday - Jimmy Smits, born in Brooklyn, actor, Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, New YorkPD Blue

1955 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law

1954 Birthday - Corbin Bernsen, born in North Hollywood, California, actor, Arnie Becker-LA Law

1954 Birthday - Corbin Bernsen, born in North Hollywood, California, actor, LA Law

1954 Event - School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education

1954 Birthday - Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

1952 Birthday - Susan Hallock Dey, Illinois, actress, 1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law

1952 Birthday - Ian Hill, bass guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin the Law

1951 Birthday - Harry Hamlin, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Michael Kuzak - L.A. Law

1951 Birthday - K K Downing, rock guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law

1951 Birthday - Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill

1951 Birthday - Steven Seagal, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Above the Law, Hard to Kill

1950 Birthday - Sam Behrens, actor, Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law

1950 Event - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel

1950 Event - Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)

1950 Birthday - Mitchel Laurance, actor, LA Law, Not Necessarily the News

1949 Birthday - Susan Ruttan, born in Oregon City Ore, actress, Roxanne Melman-LA Law

1948 Birthday - Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host

1947 Event - Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)

1947 Birthday - Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law

1947 Birthday - Alan Rachins, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Douglas-LA Law

1947 Birthday - A Martinez, born in Glendale California, actor, Whiz Kids, LA Law, Santa Barbara

1947 Birthday - Roelof P Meyer, South Africa under minister of Law and Order etc

1947 Birthday - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven, Connecticut, Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project

1946 Birthday - John Spencer, actor, Tommy Mullanney-LA Law

1946 Birthday - Leon Wessels, South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law and Order

1946 Death - Harry L Hopkins, U.S. Minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at 55

1946 Birthday - Silvio Blatter, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, writer, teacher, works include, 'Das sanfte Gesetz' or 'The soft law'

1945 Birthday - George Dzunda, born in Rosenheim, Germany, actor, Deer Hunter, Law and Order

1945 Birthday - Ian White, born in South Bristol, United Kingdom, studied law, Member of the European Parliament in Wandsdyke

1945 Birthday - John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society

1944 Birthday - Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law

1944 Birthday - Michael Tucker, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Stuart Markowitz-LA Law

1943 Birthday - Steven Bochco, prod, Hill St. Blues, LA Law, St. Elsewhere, New YorkPD Blue

1943 Birthday - Conchata Ferrell, born in Charleston, West Virginia, actress, Deadly Hero, Susan-LA Law

1942 Birthday - Bobby Fuller, born in Baytown, Texas, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran

1941 Birthday - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor

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

1940 Event - Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law

1940 Event - British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure

1940 Birthday - Denis Law, British soccer player

1939 Birthday - GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist, information law

1938 Birthday - Diana Muldaur, New York City, actress, McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law

1938 Event - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour

1938 Event - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery

1938 Event - 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses

1937 Birthday - Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law and Order, 1986-

1937 Birthday - John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor, Barbarella, Love Machine

1937 Event - Dutch Rail NV at law forms

1937 Birthday - David Ward, president, Law Society

1936 Birthday - Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society

1936 Birthday - Floyd Abrams, born in America, attorney, constitutional law expert, argued for famous cases, including the New York Times in the Judith Miller in CIA leak grand jury investigation

1936 Event - 40 hour work week law approved

1936 Birthday - Philip Ely, president, British Law Society

1936 Birthday - Gary Conway, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Burke's Law, Land of the Giants

1935 Birthday - Jerry Ohrbach, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Law and Order, Dirty Dancing

1935 Event - Social Security Act becomes law

1935 Event - 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)

1933 Event - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports

1933 Event - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)

1933 Event - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down

1931 Death - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies

1931 Birthday - Sylvia Law, British town planner

1929 Event - U.S. Immigration law of 1924 in effect

1929 Birthday - Richard Dysart, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, actor, Leland MacKenzie-LA Law

1926 Event - Railway Labor Act became law

1925 Event - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress

1924 Birthday - Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law

1924 Event - President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration

1924 Death - Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23

1923 Birthday - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law

1923 Death - Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64

1923 Event - 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law

1923 Event - England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law

1923 Event - Draft law passes

1923 Event - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier

1923 Event - New York state revokes Prohibition law

1923 Event - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers

1923 Birthday - Douglas Wass, CEO, Equity and Law Life Assurance Company

1922 Event - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage

1922 Event - New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"

1922 Birthday - Steven Hill, born in Seattle, Washington, actor, Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law and Order

1922 Event - World Law Day, 1st celebrated

1922 Birthday - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law

1921 Event - Belgium's public library law goes into force

1921 Birthday - Gene Barry, born in New York City, actor, Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law

1920 Birthday - Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian

1920 Event - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day

1920 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law

1920 Birthday - David Walker, Professor of Law, Glasgow University

1916 Event - U.S. declares martial law in Dominican Republic

1915 Event - Dutch accidents at sea law enforced

1915 Event - Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law

1915 Event - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law

1914 Birthday - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier, KVP, Mammoth Law

1914 Event - U.S. Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law

1913 Event - President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

1913 Event - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1913 Event - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law

1913 Event - 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed

1913 Event - 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND

1913 Event - 1st minimum wage law in U.S. takes effect in Oregon

1912 Event - U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government

1912 Event - Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law

1912 Event - Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)

1912 Event - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA

1911 Event - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law

1911 Birthday - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord

1911 Event - Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day

1910 Event - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed

1910 Birthday - Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation

1909 Birthday - John Beal, Joplin, Missouri, actor, 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D

1908 Event - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved

1907 Birthday - Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party

1907 Birthday - Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law

1907 Event - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana

1906 Event - Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory

1903 Death - Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect

1903 Event - 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin

1902 Birthday - Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian

1902 Birthday - Jack Ingram, Illinois, actor, 2 Stars, Law of the West, Roaring Westward

1902 Birthday - Regis Toomey, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction

1902 Event - 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon

1902 Event - Dutch State Mine law forms

1901 Birthday - Lev N. Lunts, Russia, writer, Outside the Law, City of Truth

1901 Death - Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70

1901 Event - Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed

1900 Event - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin

1900 Event - Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber

1900 Event - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power

1900 Event - Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal

1900 Event - Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry

1900 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law

1898 Birthday - Martin David, German/Netherlands law historian

1897 Death - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies

1896 Death - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75

1896 Event - 1st U.S. absentee voting law enacted by Vermont

1896 Birthday - Fritz Eberhard, Hellmut Rauschenplat, W-German lawyer/resistor, Law

1895 Birthday - Law Pendleton, U.S., wrestler/actor, Laughing Lady

1894 Birthday - Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar

1894 Event - New York passes 1st state dog license law

1892 Death - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74

1890 Birthday - Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law

1890 Event - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law

1889 Event - Belgium rules on women/child labor law

1889 Event - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S.

1887 Birthday - Bernard Law Montgomery, British Soldier

1886 Birthday - Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer, martial law

1886 Event - Netherlands New Code of Criminal law enforced

1883 Event - Alabama becomes 1st U.S. state to enact an antitrust law

1882 Event - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration

1879 Birthday - H de Bie, Dutch lawyer, children's law

1879 Birthday - Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law

1878 Event - Hastings College of Law founded

1878 Birthday - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist

1876 Event - U.S. law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find

1874 Event - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force

1874 Event - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1874 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

1874 Event - New York legislature passes compulsory education law

1874 Birthday - Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge

1873 Birthday - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, U.S., novelist, Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942

1873 Event - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1871 Event - Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school

1871 Event - 1st fertilizer law enacted

1870 Birthday - Fred Law Olmsted, Jr., architect/landscaper

1870 Event - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate

1869 Event - North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law

1869 Event - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

1869 Event - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

1869 Event - Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

1868 Event - President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day

1867 Event - British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

1865 Event - 1st U.S. cattle importation law passed

1864 Event - Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law

1864 Birthday - Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer, Roman law

1864 Birthday - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911

1863 Event - 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect

1862 Event - Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)

1862 Event - Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West

1858 Birthday - Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23

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

1854 Death - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72

1853 Event - Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land

1853 Birthday - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar

1852 Event - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law

1851 Event - 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine

1850 Event - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850

1848 Event - 1st pure food law enacted in U.S.

1845 Event - Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris, Jr., 1st blacks to open law practice

1842 Event - Notary Stamp Law passes

1842 Event - 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1838 Event - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

1838 Event - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden

1838 Birthday - Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911

1838 Event - Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions

1836 Birthday - Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1835 Birthday - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist, Stefan-Boltzmann law

1830 Birthday - Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult

1829 Birthday - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert

1823 Event - Georgia passes 1st U.S. state birth registration law

1822 Birthday - Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect

1822 Birthday - Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer, designed Central Park

1821 Birthday - Earnest Angel, German statistician, Law of Angel

1819 Event - U.S. passed its 1st immigration law

1815 Event - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

1811 Event - French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel

1808 Event - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law

1805 Birthday - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier

1804 Event - Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804

1803 Event - French law rules the use of intention

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

1802 Event - Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)

1801 Event - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law

1799 Event - 1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts

1798 Event - New conscription law goes into effect in France

1798 Event - U.S. law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies"

1796 Event - Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds

1793 Event - France passes 1st copyright law

1793 Event - 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves

1791 Event - 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania

1791 Birthday - Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart

1790 Event - U.S. copyright law enacted

1789 Event - French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law

1789 Event - 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1787 Event - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old

1787 Birthday - George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law

1787 Birthday - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law

1781 Birthday - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian

1777 Birthday - Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law

1776 Birthday - Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book

1766 Birthday - Thomas Malthus, England, population expert, Law of Malthus

1761 Death - William Law, theologian, dies

1760 Event - New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1747 Death - Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies

1743 Death - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69

1736 Birthday - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law

1729 Death - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57

1712 Death - Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63

1694 Death - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58

1672 Event - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

1664 Event - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men

1656 Event - U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers

1652 Event - New Amsterdam (now New York City) passes 1st speed limit law in US

1652 Event - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal

1647 Event - Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. compulsory school attendance law

1644 Event - 1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

1642 Event - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1636 Event - In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted

1629 Event - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia

1623 Event - 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia

1618 Event - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law

1583 Birthday - Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law

1566 Death - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71

1552 Birthday - Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician, defended common law

1275 Death - Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies













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