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1996 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65

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

1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

1991 President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws

1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws

1988 Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws

1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages

1985 South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites

1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws

1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing

1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism

1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws

1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws

1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws

1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws

1973 John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence

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

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

1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted

1963 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot

1961 Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal

1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws

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

1950 Ronnie Laws, U.S. saxophonist/guitarist, Earth, Wind and Fire

1950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration

1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China

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

1945 Justice Laws

1938 Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany

1934 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced

1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service

1932 Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws

1931 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader

1930 Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies

1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium

1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia

1928 Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64

1926 Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge

1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland

1923 Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)

1923 German Republic day with laws against worker

1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

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

1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws

1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands

1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect

1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws

1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands

1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)

1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)

1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws

1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)

1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics

1896 Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas

1891 Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, wreck laws

1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

1869 Alice Hamilton, physician/writer, workmen's compensation laws

1865 Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws

1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states

1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe

1855 U.S. citizenship laws amended all children of U.S. parents born abroad granted U.S. citizenship

1849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain

1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)

1837 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws

1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws

1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X

1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws

1828 South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws

1822 Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement

1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome

1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)

1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism

1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America

362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws

335 Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews



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