Court - Notable Historical Events
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Court - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
607-08-01 |
Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). |
758-06-11 |
Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement is reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace. |
1167-12-15 |
Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. |
1260-05-21 |
Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao. |
1276-06-14 |
While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song. |
1397-04-17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. |
1460-05-09 |
Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings |
1540-03-19 |
Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic" |
1540-06-24 |
English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court |
1606-08-07 |
Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I. |
1612-10-28 |
Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I |
1630-10-19 |
In Boston the 1st general court is held |
1639-12-03 |
1st annulment by court decree passes |
1641-03-16 |
General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution |
1644-03-19 |
200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor |
1651-12-25 |
Massachusetts General Court ordered a five shilling fine for "observing any such day as Christmas" |
1674-07-19 |
Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer |
1682-05-01 |
Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory |
1682-05-06 |
Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. |
1692-05-27 |
Court of Oyer and Terminer established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accussations of witchcraft |
1692-10-29 |
Court of Oyer and Terminer convened for Salem witch trials dissolved |
1737-07-31 |
Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court |
1753-03-25 |
Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia |
1772-06-22 |
Somerset v Stewart UK court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encourages abolitionist movement |
1778-01-20 |
1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass |
1779-12-23 |
Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct |
1780-01-15 |
Continental Congress establishes court of appeals |
1781-03-15 |
Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses) |
1789-06-20 |
Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken |
1789-09-24 |
US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court |
1789-10-05 |
French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. |
1790-02-01 |
Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC) |
1792-12-26 |
During trial of French King Louis XVI court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze |
1794-01-11 |
Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties. |
1795-07-01 |
John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of US Supreme Court |
1803-02-24 |
Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison) |
1804-11-30 |
Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins |
1809-02-20 |
US Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state |
1816-03-20 |
US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions |
1837-03-03 |
Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 |
1841-03-09 |
US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free |
1843-01-04 |
Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens |
1849-11-16 |
A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. |
1855-02-24 |
US Court of Claims forms for cases against government |
1857-03-06 |
Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens |
1861-05-25 |
John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ |
1861-06-01 |
1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va |
1861-09-01 |
Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV |
1862-05-27 |
Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) |
1863-03-31 |
Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA |
1863-10-09 |
Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station) |
1864-05-08 |
Battle of Spotslyvania Court House begins |
1864-05-10 |
Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia |
1865-04-09 |
US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant |
1866-06-11 |
The Agra High Court (ow the Allahabad High Court) is established in India. |
1869-04-10 |
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 |
1871-06-20 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss |
1871-11-28 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina |
1874-07-29 |
Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court |
1876-02-14 |
A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor |
1878-01-14 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional |
1879-03-03 |
1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) |
1883-10-15 |
Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional |
1883-11-03 |
US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans |
1888-09-25 |
Royal Court Theatre, London, opens |
1894-08-27 |
Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
1894-12-22 |
French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
1896-05-18 |
US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson) |
1900-06-29 |
The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against the foreigners in China and blames hostilities on them, giving license to Boxers for even greater ferocity |
1900-08-15 |
In China, the Empress and some of her family, the court, and retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to put down the Boxer Rebellion |
1901-07-22 |
British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members - in Taff Vale Case |
1902-03-10 |
A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. |
1902-05-22 |
US President Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico under which both countries agree to submit a long-standing dispute over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague |
1902-12-08 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court |
1903-10-06 |
The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. |
1904-01-04 |
In 'Gonzales v Williams', the US Supreme Court rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and may not be refused admission into continental United States; not until 1917 will citizenship rights be granted |
1904-03-14 |
In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the Supreme Court finds that the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; this is the first case that T. Roosevelt has undertaken in his 'trust-busting' campaign |
1905-04-17 |
US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional |
1905-04-17 |
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. |
1905-07-10 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court |
1907-11-08 |
In a landmark decision for Australia, the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration rules that the Sunshine Harvester Work must pay 'fair and reasonable wages' |
1908-02-03 |
Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act |
1908-02-24 |
In 'Muller v Oregon', the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails 'liberty of contract' |
1910-09-07 |
In the Hague, the International Court arbitrates a fishing-rights dispute between Newfoundland (still seperate from Canada) and the US |
1911-05-15 |
Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act) |
1911-10-04 |
1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) |
1913-03-14 |
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Moslem and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid |
1913-03-15 |
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court |
1914-12-04 |
Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court |
1915-06-21 |
The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. |
1916-01-28 |
1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson |
1916-07-01 |
British court martial (Easter uprising) |
1916-08-23 |
Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years |
1917-03-19 |
US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees |
1917-11-05 |
Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville, Kenticky, ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas |
1918-06-03 |
US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional |
1920-06-25 |
League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague |
1920-12-13 |
League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague |
1921-12-21 |
Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional |
1922-02-27 |
Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote |
1922-05-29 |
US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws |
1922-12-19 |
Theresa Vaughn, 24, confessed in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countris |
1923-03-03 |
US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague |
1923-03-14 |
German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) |
1925-01-08 |
1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas |
1925-02-13 |
US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult |
1925-12-17 |
Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination |
1926-01-27 |
US Senate agrees to join World Court |
1926-03-31 |
German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands |
1926-05-28 |
US Customs Court created by congress |
1927-01-15 |
The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force |
1927-05-16 |
Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax |
1929-03-02 |
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals |
1929-04-08 |
Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. |
1930-05-26 |
Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution |
1930-08-06 |
Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC |
1930-09-01 |
NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater |
1933-03-04 |
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. |
1934-05-02 |
Nazi-Germany begins People's court |
1934-08-07 |
US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" |
1935-03-22 |
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY) |
1935-05-27 |
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional |
1935-11-05 |
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man |
1936-06-18 |
1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI |
1936-07-23 |
Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice |
1937-02-05 |
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed |
1937-07-22 |
Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court |
1939-02-27 |
Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes |
1939-06-06 |
NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead |
1941-02-03 |
Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs |
1941-05-09 |
Louis Buchalter is arraigned in New York state court on the 1936 Joseph Rosen murder along with three other murders |
1942-12-21 |
US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal |
1944-04-03 |
US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional |
1945-02-07 |
Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court |
1945-10-20 |
Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial ofNuremberg |
1945-12-12 |
Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death |
1946-06-07 |
US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel |
1946-07-16 |
US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau |
1946-08-06 |
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
1946-09-12 |
Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels |
1947-08-04 |
The Supreme Court of Japan is established. |
1948-01-12 |
US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents) |
1948-03-08 |
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that relgious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional |
1948-04-18 |
International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands |
1948-05-04 |
The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949) |
1948-08-12 |
Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment |
1948-10-01 |
California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages |
1949-01-12 |
Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter |
1949-04-09 |
UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages |
1950-06-05 |
US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation |
1951-01-15 |
Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest |
1953-02-20 |
US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling |
1953-06-08 |
Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court |
1953-06-17 |
Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary |
1953-09-30 |
Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court |
1953-11-09 |
Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws |
1953-11-19 |
US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business |
1954-05-17 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
1954-09-27 |
1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush |
1955-05-31 |
US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" |
1955-11-07 |
Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas |
1956-01-06 |
Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
1956-06-05 |
Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
1956-08-17 |
Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany |
1956-10-15 |
William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme Court |
1956-10-16 |
William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
1956-11-13 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional |
1957-02-25 |
Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport |
1957-03-06 |
Centenary of Dred Scott slavery court decision marked by rediscovery of Scott's grave |
1957-06-24 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States. |
1958-04-18 |
A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum. |
1958-09-12 |
US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate |
1958-10-07 |
Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court |
1959-06-11 |
Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960) |
1960-03-24 |
US appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" not obscene |
1960-04-28 |
Elena Kagan, New York, US Supreme Court Judge |
1961-01-23 |
Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films |
1961-06-19 |
US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God |
1961-08-09 |
James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court |
1961-08-30 |
1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons |
1961-08-30 |
J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court |
1961-10-10 |
Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court |
1962-02-26 |
US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation |
1962-03-26 |
Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg |
1962-06-25 |
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional |
1962-09-09 |
76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
1962-09-24 |
US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss |
1962-10-15 |
Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court |
1962-10-16 |
Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
1963-06-17 |
Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools |
1963-09-08 |
77th US Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
1964-02-17 |
US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders) |
1964-03-09 |
Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages |
1964-05-18 |
Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years |
1964-05-25 |
Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut |
1964-07-04 |
71st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Court (64 79 63) |
1965-05-24 |
Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional |
1965-06-07 |
The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
1965-08-12 |
Elizabeth Lane becomes first female British supreme court justice |
1966-01-27 |
Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966 |
1966-03-21 |
US preme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene |
1966-03-25 |
US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional |
1966-06-13 |
Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
1967-06-12 |
US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages |
1967-06-13 |
Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice |
1967-10-02 |
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
1968-06-18 |
Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing |
1968-06-21 |
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
1968-11-12 |
Epperson v. Arkansas in US Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional |
1969-03-15 |
US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns |
1969-04-07 |
Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material |
1969-05-15 |
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court |
1969-06-16 |
Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House |
1969-06-23 |
Warren E Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice |
1969-06-23 |
Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; it is alleged that they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Province |
1969-09-07 |
83rd US Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (6-2 6-2) |
1969-09-07 |
US amateur Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) |
1969-10-29 |
Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once" |
1969-11-24 |
Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial |
1970-01-19 |
Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) |
1970-03-02 |
Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
1970-03-31 |
Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee |
1970-04-08 |
Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court |
1970-05-12 |
Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court |
1970-05-14 |
Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court |
1970-05-28 |
Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1970-06-09 |
Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1970-06-22 |
Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional |
1970-09-13 |
84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
1971-04-07 |
WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals |
1971-04-14 |
Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation |
1971-04-20 |
US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation |
1971-05-29 |
Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61 |
1971-06-21 |
Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia |
1971-06-22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1971-06-28 |
US Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali |
1971-10-21 |
William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan |
1971-11-30 |
The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights |
1971-12-06 |
Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
1971-12-09 |
Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court |
1971-12-10 |
William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
1972-01-07 |
Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
1972-01-07 |
William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1972-02-18 |
California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty |
1972-03-21 |
US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote |
1972-05-26 |
In the Republic of Ireland, the Special Criminal Court is re-instituted to deal with crimes arising out of the Northern Ireland conflict; as part of the measures trial by jury is suspended. |
1972-06-18 |
US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws |
1972-06-29 |
Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual |
1973-01-01 |
47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) |
1973-01-15 |
4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
1973-01-22 |
Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions |
1973-05-13 |
Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in Calif |
1973-05-14 |
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military |
1973-06-04 |
43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
1973-06-23 |
World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific |
1973-06-28 |
New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone after France's refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing; NZ Prime Minister Norman Kirk told the crew of the Otago that their Mururoa mission was an 'honourable' one |
1973-09-08 |
87th US Women's Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
1973-11-26 |
Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape |
1974-07-24 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes |
1975-06-16 |
Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation |
1975-09-08 |
Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools |
1975-10-20 |
Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning |
1975-11-12 |
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years |
1975-12-17 |
John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court |
1975-12-19 |
John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice |
1976-03-31 |
NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator |
1976-07-02 |
Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
1976-07-13 |
Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct) |
1976-10-04 |
Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers |
1976-11-10 |
Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
1977-04-14 |
Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license |
1977-04-20 |
Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses |
1977-05-23 |
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell |
1977-06-06 |
Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws |
1977-06-27 |
5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise |
1977-06-28 |
Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers |
1977-06-29 |
Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults |
1977-10-12 |
US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School |
1978-04-07 |
US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 |
1978-04-25 |
Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more |
1978-06-12 |
David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life |
1978-06-28 |
Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected |
1978-07-03 |
US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" |
1978-07-04 |
Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
1978-07-13 |
Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years |
1978-09-26 |
NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms |
1979-01-09 |
Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses |
1979-02-06 |
Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto |
1979-03-27 |
US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars |
1979-06-27 |
Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities |
1979-09-01 |
LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
1979-11-11 |
Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center |
1979-12-15 |
World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages |
1980-03-20 |
US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran |
1980-05-24 |
Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages |
1980-06-16 |
US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents |
1980-07-18 |
Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women |
1980-10-14 |
Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court |
1981-03-23 |
Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men |
1981-03-23 |
Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions |
1981-06-18 |
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court) |
1981-06-25 |
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional |
1981-07-07 |
Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court |
1981-07-08 |
Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) |
1981-09-07 |
Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV |
1981-09-15 |
US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court |
1981-09-21 |
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice |
1981-09-22 |
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court |
1981-09-25 |
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice |
1982-06-15 |
Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education |
1982-06-24 |
US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office |
1983-01-10 |
NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver |
1983-01-25 |
China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
1983-05-24 |
Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students |
1983-06-15 |
Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion |
1983-06-23 |
US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
1983-07-06 |
Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less |
1983-08-02 |
US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination |
1984-01-04 |
"Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
1984-01-11 |
Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family |
1984-01-17 |
Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws |
1984-01-19 |
California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital |
1984-03-05 |
Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene |
1984-05-07 |
$180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit |
1984-05-10 |
Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua |
1984-06-11 |
US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally |
1984-06-27 |
Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts |
1984-07-03 |
Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members |
1984-07-05 |
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials |
1984-09-26 |
Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit |
1985-01-18 |
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise |
1985-06-04 |
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law |
1985-08-23 |
Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games |
1986-03-25 |
Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes |
1986-03-31 |
English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead |
1986-06-04 |
Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court |
1986-06-27 |
World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal |
1986-06-30 |
Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4) |
1986-07-02 |
US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings |
1986-07-07 |
Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law |
1986-09-25 |
Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court |
1986-09-26 |
Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1986-09-26 |
William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
1987-02-25 |
US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action |
1987-03-25 |
Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified |
1987-04-16 |
British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency. |
1987-05-26 |
US Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail |
1987-06-19 |
Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation |
1987-06-26 |
Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement |
1987-06-27 |
Supreme Court Justice Powell retires |
1987-07-01 |
Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate |
1987-08-21 |
Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted |
1987-10-24 |
Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate |
1987-11-05 |
Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana |
1987-11-11 |
Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court |
1988-01-13 |
Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities |
1988-01-27 |
Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court |
1988-01-28 |
Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional |
1988-02-10 |
3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
1988-02-11 |
Anthony M Kennedy appointed to US Supreme Court |
1988-02-18 |
Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1988-05-16 |
US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant |
1988-06-13 |
US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist |
1988-06-20 |
Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities |
1988-09-09 |
US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose |
1988-10-02 |
Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections |
1988-10-18 |
Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist |
1988-10-23 |
Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate |
1988-12-28 |
US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism |
1989-01-23 |
Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court |
1989-02-10 |
To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court |
1989-02-26 |
California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs |
1989-03-09 |
Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court |
1989-03-22 |
US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate |
1989-03-28 |
New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court |
1989-04-07 |
NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules |
1989-05-01 |
US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting |
1989-06-21 |
Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression |
1989-06-26 |
Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty |
1989-07-03 |
US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions |
1989-09-17 |
NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ) |
1989-09-19 |
Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran) |
1989-11-18 |
Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so |
1990-01-09 |
Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses |
1990-04-05 |
Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity |
1990-04-16 |
Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977 |
1990-04-18 |
Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines |
1990-04-18 |
Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home |
1990-04-26 |
NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case |
1990-05-17 |
European court rules pension rights for both men & women |
1990-06-11 |
Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional |
1990-06-14 |
Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional |
1990-06-25 |
Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known |
1990-07-20 |
Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years |
1990-09-27 |
Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court |
1990-10-02 |
US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to Supreme Court |
1990-10-09 |
David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1991-02-05 |
A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
1991-02-09 |
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
1991-03-14 |
English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment |
1991-03-20 |
Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney |
1991-03-20 |
Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus |
1991-04-01 |
US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race |
1991-05-23 |
US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
1991-05-30 |
Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable |
1991-08-07 |
Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents |
1991-10-15 |
Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48) |
1991-10-16 |
US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case |
1991-10-23 |
Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice |
1991-12-20 |
A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. |
1992-01-15 |
Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum |
1992-02-26 |
Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion |
1992-04-06 |
US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography |
1992-04-09 |
US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs |
1992-04-14 |
Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft |
1992-05-13 |
Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV |
1992-05-18 |
Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs |
1992-06-22 |
Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights |
1992-06-26 |
Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports |
1993-02-02 |
Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song |
1993-03-09 |
Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs |
1993-03-19 |
US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire |
1993-07-29 |
Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible |
1993-08-13 |
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
1994-01-25 |
Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court |
1994-03-07 |
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. |
1994-04-06 |
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns |
1994-04-19 |
Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender |
1994-06-15 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1994-07-12 |
Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins |
1994-07-18 |
Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights |
1994-08-02 |
NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure |
1994-08-12 |
Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1995-04-24 |
Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes |
1995-12-13 |
US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations |
1995-12-15 |
The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. |
1996-06-12 |
3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet |
1996-07-29 |
The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court. |
1997-02-05 |
OJ Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson in a civil court action. |
1997-03-19 |
US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments |
1997-05-22 |
Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial. |
1997-06-25 |
Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop |
1997-06-26 |
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law |
1997-06-26 |
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban |
1997-06-26 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment |
1997-08-14 |
Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh |
1997-11-05 |
French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages |
1998-02-23 |
Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand |
1998-03-04 |
Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex. |
1998-05-26 |
The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. |
1998-06-25 |
In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. |
1998-08-20 |
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. |
1998-11-01 |
The European Court of Human Rights is instituted. |
1998-11-20 |
A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
1999-03-08 |
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. |
1999-04-12 |
US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. |
2000-06-28 |
Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order. |
2000-06-29 |
Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit, after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is' |
2000-07-20 |
Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. |
2000-11-07 |
Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. |
2000-12-12 |
The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore |
2001-01-31 |
In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. |
2001-02-20 |
The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California |
2001-05-29 |
U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments. |
2001-06-27 |
The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case. |
2001-08-01 |
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. |
2002-07-01 |
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. |
2002-07-15 |
Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
2003-03-11 |
The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague. |
2003-06-26 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. |
2003-08-22 |
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. |
2003-10-31 |
A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy. |
2004-05-14 |
The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. |
2005-03-23 |
The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. |
2005-04-14 |
The U.S. Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County. |
2005-06-06 |
The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich. |
2005-06-27 |
AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations. |
2005-12-20 |
US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. |
2006-06-29 |
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. |
2006-10-24 |
Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. |
2006-11-24 |
Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing. |
2007-01-15 |
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. |
2007-04-18 |
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision. |
2007-11-03 |
Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court. |
2007-12-11 |
Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings. |
2008-05-10 |
Philippine court acquits Imelda Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts. |
2008-05-15 |
California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional. |
2008-05-23 |
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. |
2008-06-26 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional. |
2009-03-04 |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. |
2010-09-09 |
A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983 |
2012-08-24 |
Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court |
2012-09-16 |
Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike |
2012-10-11 |
A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung |
2013-03-30 |
Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court |
2013-04-03 |
46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan |
2014-05-23 |
Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria |
2014-11-11 |
An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake |
2016-02-09 |
Supreme Court blocks Obama climate change rules |
2016-02-17 |
Apple Chief Calls Court Order to Unlock iPhone 'Unprecedented Step' |
2016-02-25 |
Apple Asks Court to Vacate Order to Unlock iPhone |
2016-03-13 |
Turkish court orders ban on Facebook, Twitter after blast: broadcasters |
2016-04-27 |
Prince 'did not leave will', sister Tyka Nelson tells court |
2016-05-19 |
Donald Trump Releases List of Possible Supreme Court Picks |
2016-06-15 |
Led Zeppelin appear in court over Stairway to Heaven dispute |
2016-11-03 |
Court to rule on whether London needs parliament to trigger EU exit |
2016-11-16 |
Dakota Access pipeline firms seek court relief; protests spread |
2017-02-10 |
US appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban |
2017-03-07 |
Supreme Court Won't Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights |
2017-04-05 |
LGBT Employees Protected By Federal Civil Rights Act, Appeals Court Rules |
2017-04-11 |
Neil Gorsuch Sworn In As 9th Justice On The Supreme Court |
2017-04-15 |
Court blocks Arkansas from using lethal injection drug |
2017-04-18 |
Arkansas execution delayed as Supreme Court refuses to overrule state court |
2017-06-13 |
9th Circuit Appeals Court largely upholds block on Trump's revised travel ban |
2018-02-09 |
Court rejects appeals by 47 Russians against Olympic bans |
2018-06-05 |
Gay adoption fight looms after US Supreme Court's cake ruling |
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Court - Notable Birthdays
Court - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1600-09-03 |
Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk |
1627-09-27 |
Jacques-Benigne bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704) |
1644-07-02 |
Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar |
1653-01-07 |
Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia) |
1691-05-17 |
Antoine Court, French reformed theologist |
1696-03-27 |
Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760) |
1698-10-23 |
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde) |
1715-01-29 |
Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court) composer/pianist |
1716-06-18 |
Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter |
1720-01-04 |
Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist |
1728-03-19 |
Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter |
1745-04-29 |
Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800) |
1752-12-06 |
Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844) |
1755-09-24 |
John Marshall, Germantown Virginia, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35) |
1773-02-22 |
Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter |
1775-08-25 |
Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro) |
1778-02-22 |
Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death) |
1779-09-18 |
Joseph Story, Mass, 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45) |
1783-05-25 |
Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841) |
1784-04-24 |
Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860) |
1785-03-11 |
John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861) |
1786-01-07 |
John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865) |
1794-03-05 |
Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870) |
1803-08-18 |
Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881) |
1809-11-04 |
Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874) |
1815-03-09 |
David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886) |
1816-04-05 |
Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890) |
1816-11-04 |
Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899) |
1820-03-09 |
Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893) |
1820-05-23 |
Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891) |
1830-10-24 |
Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court) |
1832-01-26 |
George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924) |
1833-06-01 |
John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911) |
1836-03-02 |
Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913) |
1837-01-20 |
David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) |
1841-03-08 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, Boston Massachusetts, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32) |
1849-04-17 |
William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923) |
1854-07-19 |
Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer |
1856-11-13 |
Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39) |
1862-04-11 |
Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41) |
1866-03-17 |
Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939) |
1872-01-27 |
Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals) |
1872-10-11 |
Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46) |
1872-11-04 |
Sol Horowitz, Disorder in the Court |
1876-12-01 |
George Creel, Saved by the Juvenile Court |
1877-08-11 |
Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954) |
1879-05-02 |
James F. Byrnes, American statesman, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1972) |
1882-07-16 |
Shep Camp, Hampton Court Palace |
1882-11-15 |
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna, Austria, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62) |
1884-01-22 |
Felix Adler, Disorder in the Court |
1886-02-27 |
Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71) |
1886-07-11 |
Eric Cowley, Hampton Court Palace |
1886-08-14 |
Charles Leahy, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1888-06-22 |
Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964) |
1888-9-03 |
C. Court Treatt, Stampede |
1889-04-12 |
Nick Baskovitch, Disorder in the Court |
1890-01-22 |
Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53) |
1890-12-21 |
Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53) |
1891-03-19 |
Earl Warren, Los Angeles California, Governor of California/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69) |
1891-05-27 |
Addy Britt, The Night Court |
1892-02-13 |
Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54) |
1893-08-19 |
Marie Manley, Aired in Court |
1894-08-27 |
Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort) |
1895-07-10 |
Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court |
1898-10-16 |
William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75) |
1899-05-20 |
John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71) |
1901-02-22 |
Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62) |
1902-11-09 |
Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial)) |
1904-07-04 |
William Meader, Court Martial |
1905-08-08 |
Reginald Lal Singh, Court Martial |
1905-08-09 |
Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice |
1906-04-25 |
William J Brennan Jr, NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90) [or 8/25] |
1906-08-25 |
William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25] |
1907-02-05 |
Ben Gershman, Small Claims Court |
1907-09-17 |
Warren E Burger, Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86) |
1907-09-19 |
Lewis F Powell Jr, Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87) |
1908-04-08 |
Neil Lawson, British high court judge |
1908-04-16 |
Hal Rand, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
1908-06-05 |
Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court) |
1908-07-02 |
Thurgood Marshall, Baltimore Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91), (d. 1993) |
1908-08-08 |
Arthur J Goldberg, Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65) |
1908-11-12 |
Harry A Blackmun, Ill, 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94) |
1910-03-22 |
Herbert Rudley, The Court Jester |
1910-11-14 |
Tony Cirillo, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1911-02-23 |
G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60) |
1911-9-29 |
Charles Court, Nickel Queen |
1912-05-10 |
Edward Gardner, Queen's Court/MP |
1913-08-13 |
Melvin Frank, The Court Jester |
1913-10-07 |
Noel Drayton, The Court Jester |
1913-11-22 |
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006) |
1914-02-11 |
Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam |
1914-02-13 |
Court Shepard, Alaska Passage |
1914-04-20 |
Sadhona Bose, The Court Dancer: Raj Narkati |
1914-04-21 |
Norman Panama, The Court Jester |
1914-11-04 |
Court Benson, View from the Villa |
1914-12-19 |
Don Downen, Midnight Court |
1915-01-23 |
Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81) |
1915-05-06 |
John Arnold, British high court judge |
1916-01-24 |
Gene Mako, Kings of the Court |
1916-03-26 |
Vic Schoen, The Court Jester |
1916-08-25 |
Al De Caprio, The Court Martial |
1916-10-13 |
Sanford Spillman, Night Court U.S.A. |
1917-03-26 |
Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England) |
1917-05-24 |
Derek Hodgson, British high court judge |
1917-05-30 |
Tom McKee, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
1917-06-08 |
Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93) |
1918-03-04 |
Margaret Osbourne, Queens of the Court |
1918-06-13 |
Percy Rodrigues, Court Martial |
1919-08-06 |
Pauline Betz, Queens of the Court |
1919-11-15 |
Joseph Albert Wapner, La, judge (People's Court) |
1919-11-15 |
Joseph A. Wapner, Animal Court |
1920-03-11 |
Benjamin Ferencz, The International Criminal Court |
1920-04-12 |
Frank Meservey, The Court Jester |
1920-04-14 |
John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice |
1920-04-20 |
John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- ) |
1920-06-20 |
Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge |
1920-06-26 |
Michael Eastham, high court judge |
1920-08-05 |
Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court) |
1921-03-21 |
Charles Hart, Juvenile Court |
1921-10-08 |
Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
1922-01-20 |
Don Mankiewicz, Court Martial |
1922-05-11 |
Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
1922-06-08 |
Allan Ramsay, Juvenile Court |
1922-07-22 |
Pat Todd, Queens of the Court |
1923-01-23 |
Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere) |
1924-01-31 |
Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge |
1924-02-16 |
Peter Webster, British High Court Judge |
1924-09-24 |
Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge |
1924-10-01 |
William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- ) |
1924-10-12 |
Will Berthold, Court Martial |
1924-12-06 |
Douglas C. Jones, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer |
1924-12-12 |
Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)/judge (People's Court), (d. 2013) |
1924-12-12 |
Ed Koch, The People's Court |
1925-03-22 |
Gerard Hoffnung, The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra |
1925-04-06 |
John Knox, British supreme court justice |
1925-06-20 |
Doris Hart, Queens of the Court |
1925-08-01 |
Jack Kramer, actor (Kings of the Court) |
1925-09-25 |
Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner) |
1925-10-12 |
Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier (court jester of beliefs) |
1925-11-17 |
Rusty Burrell, Animal Court |
1925-11-21 |
Loretta Daye, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1926-02-10 |
Hazel Court, The Masque of the Red Death |
1926-05-08 |
Ronald Waterhouse, British high court judge (d.2011) |
1926-05-09 |
Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal) |
1926-12-18 |
Noelle Middleton, Court Martial |
1927-03-01 |
Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court, (d. 2012) |
1927-06-19 |
Robert Bishop, Court Martial |
1927-10-29 |
Frank Sedgman, Kings of the Court |
1929-01-10 |
Klaus Kammer, Court Martial |
1929-07-16 |
Michael Morland, High court judge |
1930-01-26 |
Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection) |
1930-03-26 |
Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- ) |
1930-05-24 |
Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals) |
1931-04-19 |
Denis Henry, British high court judge |
1931-10-06 |
Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist (CBS News, Court TV) |
1932-12-02 |
Raymond Court, Seelische Grausamkeit |
1933-03-16 |
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court) |
1933-05-28 |
Philip Otton, high court judge |
1933-09-17 |
Desmond Fennell, British high court judge |
1933-11-19 |
Jerry Sheindlin, The People's Court |
1934-04-19 |
John Roch, high court judge |
1934-05-08 |
Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge |
1934-06-10 |
Paul Gibson, British high court judge |
1934-06-11 |
Anthony Evans, British high court judge |
1934-10-02 |
Richard Scott, British high court judge |
1936-03-11 |
Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- ) |
1936-04-26 |
Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge |
1936-07-23 |
Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- ) |
1936-11-02 |
Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice |
1937-02-10 |
Lord Justice Rose, former judge on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales |
1937-03-20 |
Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge |
1937-04-03 |
Simon Brown, British high court judge |
1937-04-13 |
Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court) |
1937-08-27 |
Mark Potter, British court judge |
1938-03-11 |
Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge |
1938-06-19 |
John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge |
1938-07-21 |
Janet Reno, Dark Knight Court |
1938-08-14 |
Stuart McKinnon, high court judge |
1938-08-15 |
Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice |
1939-04-26 |
Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge |
1939-09-17 |
David H Souter, Weir NH, 107th Supreme Court Justice (1990- ) |
1939-10-05 |
Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
1939-11-06 |
Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
1939-12-17 |
Charles V Bush, Washington, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), (d. 2012) |
1940-05-15 |
Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court) |
1941-04-17 |
Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director (Royal Court Theatre) |
1941-06-19 |
Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
1942-07-06 |
Raymond Depardon, The 10th Judicial Court: Judicial Hearings |
1942-07-16 |
Margaret Smith Court, Perth Australia, tennis pro (1970 Grand Slam, 24 Grand Slam wins) |
1942-07-16 |
Margaret Court, Episode #1.1 |
1942-07-28 |
Geraldine Court, All My Children |
1942-12-22 |
Dick Parry, Pink Floyd: P. U. L. S. E. Live at Earls Court |
1943-01-13 |
Richard Moll, Cal, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor) |
1943-07-28 |
Richard Wright, Pink Floyd: P. U. L. S. E. Live at Earls Court |
1943-10-21 |
Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, American dancer and actress (Liz-Night Court) |
1944-03-21 |
Johnnie Eisen, Kate's Day in Court |
1947-11-25 |
John Larroquette, New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court) |
1948-06-23 |
Clarence Thomas, Savannah Ga, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- ) |
1949-04-02 |
Pamela Reed, Tacoma WA, actress (Grand, Kindergarten Cop, Home Court) |
1949-08-07 |
Tim Renwick, Pink Floyd: P. U. L. S. E. Live at Earls Court |
1949-12-23 |
Reinhold Weege, Night Court |
1950-04-01 |
Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
1950-05-18 |
Istvan Szimhar, A Kid in King Arthur's Court |
1950-11-04 |
Markie Post, [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actr (Christine-Night Court) |
1950-9-01 |
L. Travis Clark, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson |
1952-01-29 |
Court Miller, Cat's Eye |
1952-04-27 |
Larry Elder, Moral Court |
1952-06-04 |
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, The International Criminal Court |
1952-07-06 |
George Athans, Shades of Love: Sunset Court |
1952-10-14 |
Harry Anderson, Newport RI, actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court) |
1954-03-05 |
Marsha Warfield, comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court) |
1957-9-17 |
Lisa Fong, Student Court |
1959-02-11 |
David Court, Lilian's Story |
1960-04-20 |
Jean Casarez, Disorder in the Court 2: 20 More Outrageous Courtroom Moments |
1960-06-21 |
Joel Drucker, Center Court |
1960-06-28 |
Claudia Fontaine, Pink Floyd: P. U. L. S. E. Live at Earls Court |
1961-05-01 |
Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People's Court |
1961-05-01 |
Marilyn Milian, The People's Court |
1961-10-22 |
Barbara Potter, Ct, tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbledon Court) |
1963-12-23 |
Carol Peterka, Little Falls MN, team handball back court (Oly-92, 96) |
1963-9-19 |
Alexandra Silk, Sex Court: The Movie |
1964-05-06 |
Brian Yandrisovitz, Trailer Court Justice |
1964-05-29 |
Paul Bens, Night Court |
1965-01-31 |
Kim Clarke, Tulsa Oklahoma, team handball back court (Olympics-88, 92, 96) |
1965-10-05 |
John Keller Jr, Toledo Ohio, team handball back court (Olympics-1996) |
1966-11-05 |
Garin Bougié, Student Court |
1967-9-12 |
Christine Astin, Kangaroo Court |
1968-04-12 |
David Court, Jekyll + Hyde |
1968-04-13 |
Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court (Olympics-96) |
1968-04-29 |
Peter Paul Oprisko II, Blessings from the Food Court |
1968-09-03 |
Dawn Allinger, Salt Lake City UT, team handball back court (Oly-1996) |
1968-12-21 |
Alex McLeod, Alexandria: Riefton Court |
1969-02-17 |
George Reese, The People's Court |
1970-03-01 |
Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996) |
1970-07-16 |
An Tonthat, Le souffle court |
1971-01-26 |
Eric Muss-Barnes, The Unseelie Court |
1971-10-25 |
Scott Ratner, The People's Court |
1972-03-14 |
Court Coursey, Protect-O-Man |
1972-06-06 |
James Phillips, Court Appeal |
1973-05-10 |
Jerome Williams, Full-Court Miracle |
1973-11-09 |
Alyson Court, Resident Evil: Degeneration |
1974-06-18 |
Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court) |
1976-01-06 |
Court Young, Awake |
1977-02-28 |
Challyn Markray, Divorce Court |
1977-08-28 |
Georgetta Foreman, Divorce Court |
1978-08-19 |
Court Bauer, WWF Raw |
1979-05-03 |
Court Dickert, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
1980-04-30 |
Leah Abdenour, The Unseelie Court |
1980-05-25 |
István Barkovics, A Kid in King Arthur's Court |
1980-06-10 |
Daniel Bennett, A Kid in King Arthur's Court |
1981-04-04 |
Court Logan, A Dream Come True |
1981-06-13 |
Julia Sir, Family Court with Judge Penny |
1983-02-22 |
Leah de Niese, Court of Lonely Royals |
1983-9-30 |
Julien Bigot, Le souffle court |
1986-01-07 |
Moody Amarante, Cristina's Court |
1986-12-10 |
Nicole Wagner, On Court Meltdown |
1988-04-06 |
Coryn Cope, Alma and King Noah's Court |
1988-04-12 |
Domenica Steele, Paintball the Movie: Court Jesters |
Court - Notable Weddings
Court - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1783-01-03 |
US Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall (27) weds Mary Willis Ambler in Hanover County, Virginia |
1847-08-04 |
Author of Moby Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
1930-09-04 |
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1955-12-17 |
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (47) weds Cecilia Suyat |
1956-06-29 |
Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York |
1993-07-24 |
Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown |
1993-07-24 |
Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32) |
2005-05-18 |
Television presenter and former Miss Germany Verona Feldbusch (37) weds German entrepreneur Franjo Pooth at the San Diego Court House in San Diego, California |
2010-05-15 |
Actress and model Danneel Harris (33) weds actor Jensen Ackles (34) at the Rosewood Crescent Court Hotel in Dallas, Texas |
Court - Notable Deaths
Court - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1539-10-15 |
Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies |
1592-03-10 |
Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies |
1600-12-12 |
John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies |
1660-08-06 |
Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 |
1672-07-04 |
Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48 |
1685-05-28 |
Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67 |
1709-12-01 |
Abraham a Sancta Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court preacher and friar, dies at 65 |
1760-06-15 |
Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69 |
1768-01-10 |
Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82 |
1768-10-28 |
Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68 |
1770-12-10 |
Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80 |
1774-12-02 |
Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54 |
1777-03-01 |
Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62 |
1799-02-22 |
Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750) |
1809-03-27 |
Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 |
1811-04-03 |
Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83 |
1838-10-19 |
Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73 |
1839-12-15 |
Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 |
1846-02-14 |
Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76 |
1861-04-04 |
John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785) |
1864-10-12 |
Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 |
1890-10-13 |
Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816) |
1891-09-07 |
Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820) |
1892-01-22 |
Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813) |
1893-01-23 |
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825) |
1896-01-25 |
Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68 |
1910-03-28 |
David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837) |
1911-10-14 |
John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833) |
1929-11-20 |
Shep Camp, Hampton Court Palace |
1930-03-08 |
Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865) |
1937-07-25 |
Florence Court, The Fatal Hour |
1938-05-14 |
Addy Britt, The Night Court |
1939-08-24 |
W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies |
1939-11-16 |
Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866) |
1941-10-05 |
Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84 |
1943-12-19 |
Sol Horowitz, Disorder in the Court |
1946-04-22 |
Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73 |
1948-08-27 |
Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862) |
1948-09-08 |
Eric Cowley, Hampton Court Palace |
1952-01-18 |
Curly Howard, Disorder in the Court |
1953-10-02 |
George Creel, Saved by the Juvenile Court |
1953-12-04 |
Marie Manley, Aired in Court |
1954-02-11 |
Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877) |
1954-07-11 |
C. Court Treatt, Stampede |
1957-09-19 |
Harold Worthington, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1959-09-28 |
Gerard Hoffnung, The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra |
1959-10-03 |
Don Downen, Midnight Court |
1960-06-20 |
Tom McKee, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
1961-08-18 |
Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89 |
1962-01-17 |
Nick Baskovitch, Disorder in the Court |
1964-11-28 |
Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70 |
1965-02-22 |
Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882) |
1965-05-04 |
Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66 |
1967-12-09 |
Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898) |
1968-02-20 |
Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 |
1971-04-20 |
Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73 |
1971-07-11 |
Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64 |
1974-07-09 |
Earl Warren, governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83 |
1977-06-13 |
Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77 |
1979-04-15 |
William Meader, Court Martial |
1980-01-19 |
William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81 |
1981-12-07 |
Noel Drayton, The Court Jester |
1982-04-05 |
Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71 |
1982-06-14 |
Cliff Hartley, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1984-08-07 |
Charles Hart, Juvenile Court |
1985-05-13 |
Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64 |
1985-12-07 |
Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70 |
1986-03-07 |
Court Miller, Cat's Eye |
1986-07-15 |
Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63 |
1988-02-02 |
G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit |
1988-10-13 |
Melvin Frank, The Court Jester |
1992-02-16 |
Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78 |
1992-03-09 |
Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94 |
1992-06-28 |
Joan Marshall, Court Martial |
1992-07-31 |
G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72 |
1993-01-01 |
June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma |
1993-01-14 |
Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies |
1993-01-24 |
Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84 |
1993-09-02 |
John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66 |
1993-12-06 |
Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered |
1993-12-16 |
Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46 |
1994-04-29 |
Sanford Spillman, Night Court U.S.A. |
1995-01-06 |
Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 |
1995-02-01 |
Ben Gershman, Small Claims Court |
1995-02-05 |
Court Benson, View from the Villa |
1995-06-25 |
Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78 |
1995-08-23 |
Loretta Daye, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
1997-04-04 |
Court Shepard, Alaska Passage |
1997-07-24 |
William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91 |
1998-08-30 |
Douglas C. Jones, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer |
1999-03-04 |
Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908) |
2000-01-05 |
Vic Schoen, The Court Jester |
2000-05-10 |
Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923) |
2000-06-17 |
Will Berthold, Court Martial |
2000-07-03 |
Al De Caprio, The Court Martial |
2002-04-15 |
Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917) |
2002-04-15 |
Rusty Burrell, Animal Court |
2003-01-01 |
Gordon Court, I Became a Criminal |
2003-01-13 |
Norman Panama, The Court Jester |
2004-07-28 |
Johnnie Eisen, Kate's Day in Court |
2004-08-09 |
Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908) |
2004-10-13 |
Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915) |
2006-01-02 |
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913) |
2006-09-09 |
Herbert Rudley, The Court Jester |
2007-01-15 |
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed) |
2007-09-06 |
Percy Rodrigues, Court Martial |
2007-12-18 |
Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court judge (b. 1924) |
2007-12-22 |
Charles Court, Nickel Queen |
2008-02-25 |
Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912) |
2008-04-15 |
Hazel Court, The Masque of the Red Death |
2008-09-15 |
Richard Wright, Pink Floyd: P. U. L. S. E. Live at Earls Court |
2009-05-13 |
Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem |
2009-07-22 |
Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921) |
2009-08-17 |
Allan Ramsay, Juvenile Court |
2009-10-30 |
L. Travis Clark, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson |
2009-12-14 |
Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934) |
2010-11-20 |
Geraldine Court, All My Children |
2011-05-31 |
Pauline Betz, Queens of the Court |
2012-03-03 |
Raymond Court, Seelische Grausamkeit |
2012-10-24 |
Margaret Osbourne, Queens of the Court |
2012-12-01 |
Reinhold Weege, Night Court |
2013-02-01 |
Ed Koch, The People's Court |
2013-06-14 |
Gene Mako, Kings of the Court |
2015-04-25 |
Don Mankiewicz, Court Martial |
2015-05-29 |
Doris Hart, Queens of the Court |
2016-02-13 |
Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 79 |
2016-02-15 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79 |
2016-03-07 |
Supreme Court Judge Adrian Hardiman dies aged 64 |
2016-06-07 |
Former Supreme Court Judge Frank Griffin dies aged 97 |
2017-02-27 |
Judge Joseph Wapner, star of The People's Court, dies aged 97 |
2018-03-30 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge Stephen Reinhardt dies at 87 |
2018-04-17 |
'Night Court' star Harry Anderson dies at age 65 |
