2004 Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69
1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
1998 U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1997 California law ends affirmative-action
1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law
1996 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year
1996 Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85
1995 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
1995 William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
1992 Vincent Gardenia, actor (All in the Family, LA Law), dies at 71
1992 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1992 John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51
1992 Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
1991 Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93
1991 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig
1990 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win
1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag unconstitutional
1990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38
1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989 Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71
1989 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany and Candice Bergen win
1989 China declares martial law in Beijing
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1988 LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
1988 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
1987 Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1986 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
1982 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland
1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1976 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
1975 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1975 Italy broadens abortion law
1975 Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78
1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1974 Ty Law, NFL cornerback for the New England Patriots
1974 Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at 64
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1972 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
1972 Marcos declares martial law in Philippines
1972 Jude Law, British Actor
1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
1969 Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66
1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1968 Stuart Law, cricketer, prolific Queensland batsman, Australia 1995
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1967 James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes
1967 Tennessee Gov Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1967 Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead at 22
1965 Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1964 Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor, Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident
1964 Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1964 U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights
1963 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women
1963 Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70
1962 Amanda Donohoe, born in London, actress, CJ Lamb-LA Law
1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1958 Gary Oldman, actor, Sid and Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace
1957 Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87
1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1957 Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (Within the Law), dies
1957 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
1957 Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress, Abby Perkins-LA Law
1956 Lee Roy Parnell, Abilene Texas, country singer, Oughta be a Law
1956 Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis
1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
1955 Jimmy Smits, born in Brooklyn, actor, Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, New YorkPD Blue
1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1954 Corbin Bernsen, born in North Hollywood, California, actor, Arnie Becker-LA Law
1954 Corbin Bernsen, born in North Hollywood, California, actor, LA Law
1954 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
1954 Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
1952 Susan Hallock Dey, Illinois, actress, 1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law
1952 Ian Hill, bass guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin the Law
1951 Harry Hamlin, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Michael Kuzak-LA Law
1951 K K Downing, rock guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law
1951 Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill
1951 Steven Seagal, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Above the Law, Hard to Kill
1950 Sam Behrens, actor, Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law
1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 Mitchel Laurance, actor, LA Law, Not Necessarily the News
1949 Susan Ruttan, born in Oregon City Ore, actress, Roxanne Melman-LA Law
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1947 Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law
1947 Alan Rachins, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Douglas-LA Law
1947 A Martinez, born in Glendale California, actor, Whiz Kids, LA Law, Santa Barbara
1947 Roelof P Meyer, South Africa under minister of Law and Order etc
1947 Jill Eikenberry, New Haven, Connecticut, Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project
1946 John Spencer, actor, Tommy Mullanney-LA Law
1946 Leon Wessels, South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law and Order
1946 Harry L Hopkins, U.S. min of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at 55
1945 George Dzunda, born in Rosenheim, Germany, actor, Deer Hunter, Law and Order
1945 John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society
1944 Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law
1944 Michael Tucker, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Stuart Markowitz-LA Law
1943 Steven Bochco, prod, Hill St. Blues, LA Law, St. Elsewhere, New YorkPD Blue
1943 Conchata Ferrell, born in Charleston, West Virginia, actress, Deadly Hero, Susan-LA Law
1941 Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets min wages and max hrs
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law
1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940 Denis Law, British soccer player
1939 GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist, information law
1938 Diana Muldaur, New York City, actress, McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1938 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1937 Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law and Order, 1986-
1937 John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor, Barbarella, Love Machine
1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937 David Ward, president, Law Society
1936 Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society
1936 40 hour work week law approved
1936 Philip Ely, president, British Law Society
1936 Gary Conway, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Burke's Law, Land of the Giants
1935 Jerry Ohrbach, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Law and Order, Dirty Dancing
1935 Social Security Act becomes law
1935 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1931 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
1931 Sylvia Law, British town planner
1929 U.S. Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1929 Richard Dysart, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, actor, Leland MacKenzie-LA Law
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law
1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
1924 Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1923 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law
1923 Andrew Bonar Law, English PM (C), dies at 64
1923 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
1923 England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1923 Draft law passes
1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1923 Douglas Wass, CEO, Equity and Law Life Assurance Company
1922 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1922 New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1922 Steven Hill, born in Seattle, Washington, actor, Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law and Order
1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1922 Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law
1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force
1921 Gene Barry, born in New York City, actor, Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law
1920 Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian
1920 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
1920 David Walker, Professor of Law, Glasgow University
1918 Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist, constitutional law
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1914 Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier, KVP, Mammoth Law
1914 U.S. Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1913 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND
1913 1st minimum wage law in U.S. takes effect in Oregon
1912 U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law
1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1911 Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord
1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day
1910 William J Law, sailor
1909 John Beal, Joplin, Missouri, actor, 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D
1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1907 Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1906 Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory
1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect
1903 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin
1902 Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian
1902 Jack Ingram, Illinois, actor, 2 Stars, Law of the West, Roaring Westward
1902 Regis Toomey, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction
1902 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1902 Dutch State Mine law forms
1901 Lev N. Lunts, Russia, writer, Outside the Law, City of Truth
1901 Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1898 Martin David, German/Neth law historian
1897 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies
1896 Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
1896 1st U.S. absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1896 Fritz Eberhard, [Hellmut Rauschenplat], W-German lawyer/resistor, Law
1895 Law Pendleton, U.S., wrestler/actor, Laughing Lady
1894 Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar
1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
1892 Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
1890 Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law
1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S.
1887 Bernard Law Montgomery, British Soldier
1886 Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer, martial law
1886 Netherlands New Code of Criminal law enforced
1883 Alabama becomes 1st U.S. state to enact an antitrust law
1882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1879 H de Bie, Dutch lawyer, children's law
1879 Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1878 Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
1876 U.S. law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1874 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1874 New York legislature passes compulsory education law
1874 Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge
1873 Ellen Anderson Glasgow, U.S., novelist, Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
1870 Fred Law Olmsted, Jr., architect/landscaper
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1869 Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1865 1st U.S. cattle importation law passed
1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1864 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer, Roman law
1864 Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911
1863 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect
1862 Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1858 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23
1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1854 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1851 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine
1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1848 1st pure food law enacted in U.S.
1845 Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1842 Notary Stamp Law passes
1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911
1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
1836 Evander McIvor Law, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1920
1835 Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist, Stefan-Boltzmann law
1830 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult
1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1823 Georgia passes 1st U.S. state birth registration law
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer, designed Central Park
1821 Earnest Angel, German statistician, Law of Angel
1819 U.S. passed its 1st immigration law
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1805 David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1803 French law rules the use of intention
1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs. Madison)
1802 Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1799 1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
1798 New conscription law goes into effect in France
1798 U.S. law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies"
1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1793 France passes 1st copyright law
1793 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1791 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart
1790 U.S. copyright law enacted
1789 French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
1789 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1787 George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
1781 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian
1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law
1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book
1766 Thomas Malthus, England, population expert, Law of Malthus
1761 William Law, theologian, dies
1760 New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1747 Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies
1743 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69
1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law
1729 John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
1694 Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men
1656 U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) passes 1st speed limit law in US
1652 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1647 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. compulsory school attendance law
1644 1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1636 In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1583 Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
1566 Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1552 Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician, defended common law
1275 Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies
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