1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84
1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89
1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1996 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61
1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84
1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California
1992 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights
1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1990 Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1990 European court rules pension rights for both men and women
1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies
1990 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
1990 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights
1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
1977 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1974 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist
1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1973 U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1971 U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies
1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered
1965 James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1964 Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964 James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1964 U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights
1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.
1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium
1961 Spain accept equal rights for men and women
1961 Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth
1959 U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1957 U.S. senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1957 Sen Strom Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.
1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women
1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights
1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order 9808
1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945 Laura Lee, [Rundless], singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act
1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist
1943 US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1939 Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1938 Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator
1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League
1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1930 Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88
1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader
1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, Natl Welfare Rights Assn
1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership
1925 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP
1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace
1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1921 New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75
1920 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
1920 James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit
1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker
1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)
1914 U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S.
1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor
1912 China votes for universal human rights
1912 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader
1911 Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1910 Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist
1909 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist
1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1906 French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama
1901 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP
1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1893 U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1891 John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights
1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1887 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP
1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel
1880 Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1867 Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1866 U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist
1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader
1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1853 Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist
1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York
1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)
1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1832 Mary Edwards Walker, U.S., doctor/women's rights leader
1824 Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause
1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1792 Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1789 New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1789 French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
1774 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart
1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace
1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties
1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1629 Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited
1628 English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1624 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1577 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
1535 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
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