2015 Event Greece and its creditors agree to a bailout of up to 86 billion euros in exchange for economic reforms to include changes to the pension system and tax laws; the Greek Parliament must still approve the deal 2014 Event The U.S. Supreme Court agrees with a lower court ruling that Google's Street View data collection violated anti-wiretapping laws by capturing personal data from wi-fi networks 2014 Event The European Commission (EC) is examining the tax status of Fiat in Luxembourg; Starbucks in the Netherlands; and Apple in Ireland to identify potential unfair tax advantages; the companies say they are in compliance with financial laws 2014 Event China updates its environmental laws, providing more legal framework for addressing violations; the laws were last changed in 1989, prior to the nation's accelerated growth and rate of environmental degradation 2014 Event Vladimir Putin ratifies laws today annexing Crimea, defying sanction threats by the U.S. and the E.U. 2014 Event New York Governor, Mario Cuomo, plans to announce executive action to loosen marijuana laws, allowing use of the drug for medical purposes 2012 Event Thousands of union employees protest outside of the capital building in Lansing, Michigan, as Michigan's government passes legislation, becoming the nation's 24th right-to-work state, and most highly unionized state in the U.S. to have such laws 2012 Event The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir 2011 Event Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws 2011 Event Spain enacts strict new anti-smoking laws 2010 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly 2010 Event Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months 1996 Death Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65 1992 Event Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights 1991 Event South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws 1991 Event President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 1990 Event Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws 1988 Event Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws 1986 Event New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages 1985 Event South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites 1984 Event 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 Event Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program 1982 Event Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing 1981 Event Belgian Senate accept laws against racism 1980 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws 1977 Event Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws 1976 Event Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws 1973 Event Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws 1973 Event John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence 1972 Event U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws 1969 Event Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1967 Event Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 1967 Event 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted 1963 Event Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot 1961 Event Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal 1956 Event South African women demonstrate against pass laws 1953 Event Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws 1950 Birthday Ronnie Laws, U.S. saxophonist/guitarist, Earth, Wind and Fire 1950 Event Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration 1950 Event New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China 1947 Event Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law) 1938 Event Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws 1935 Event Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 1934 Event Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced 1933 Event 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service 1932 Event Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws 1931 Birthday Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader 1930 Death Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies 1930 Event Child labor laws established in Belgium 1928 Event Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia 1928 Death Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 1926 Birthday Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge 1924 Event Child labor laws strengthened in Holland 1923 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) 1923 Event German Republic day with laws against worker 1922 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws 1922 Event U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws 1920 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws 1918 Event Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional 1917 Event Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws 1915 Event Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands 1913 Event Dutch Disability laws go into effect 1913 Event Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws 1912 Event Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands 1907 Event Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies) 1903 Event General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws) 1903 Event Kuyper government launches anti strike laws 1901 Event Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) 1900 Event Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics 1896 Birthday Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas 1891 Birthday Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, wreck laws 1882 Event Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust 1869 Birthday Alice Hamilton, physician/writer, workmen's compensation laws 1865 Event Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws 1861 Event Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states 1860 Event Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe 1855 Event U.S. citizenship laws amended all children of U.S. parents born abroad granted U.S. citizenship 1849 Event Corn Laws abolished in Britain 1842 Event Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1837 Birthday Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws 1834 Event Belgian parliament accept railway laws 1830 Event Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X 1829 Event Dutch parliament accepts new press laws 1828 Event South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws 1822 Birthday Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity 1804 Event Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement 1732 Event Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome 1620 Event 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws) 1581 Event English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1542 Event Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America 362 Event Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws 335 Event Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
