2013 Event New Zealand's first same-sex marriages take place since the country's parliament passed the Marriage Equality Bill in April 2005 Event South Africa is the 5th country to recognize same-sex marriages 1967 Event Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 1949 Event South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages 1948 Event California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages 1937 Event Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians 1930 Event Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
