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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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