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1989 N.Y. State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill

1983 President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature

1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond

1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature

1939 Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late

1937 Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr)

1934 Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence

1931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia"

1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures

1907 Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature

1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes

1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

1874 New York legislature passes compulsory education law

1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature

1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature

1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary

1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes

1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law

1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

1866 New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health

1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy

1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery

1858 Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature

1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement

1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities

1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom

1758 New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation

1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies



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