History Hop Tags - Supreme

1530-03-07

King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church

1531-02-11

Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England following the schism with Rome

1625-04-07

Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander

1630-08-13

Ferdinand II dismisses supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein

1632-04-16

Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander

1645-04-02

Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander

1726-02-08

The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

1775-05-10

2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

1789-09-24

US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court

1790-02-01

Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)

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

1814-01-31

Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.

1816-03-20

US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

1827-01-17

Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander

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

1855-02-03

Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

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

1865-02-01

JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar

1869-04-10

Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1875-03-01

Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883

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

1879-02-15

Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct

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

1894-08-27

Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court

1896-05-18

US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)

1899-12-18

Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa

1902-12-08

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court

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.

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'

1911-05-15

Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)

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

1914-07-30

John French appointed British supreme commander

1914-08-04

WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war

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

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

1918-11-06

Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns

1918-11-08

Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs

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

1923-03-14

German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)

1925-01-08

1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas

1926-05-17

Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme warlord in Canton

1926-07-09

Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander

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

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.

1935-05-27

Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional

1936-07-23

Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice

1936-09-21

Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander

1937-02-05

FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed

1937-07-22

Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1938-01-17

Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman

1939-02-27

Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

1939-06-06

NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead

1939-08-30

General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

1939-08-30

Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet

1940-02-05

Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1941-02-03

Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs

1942-01-26

Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Marshal Rommel

1942-03-17

Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1942-12-21

US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal

1943-08-25

Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1943-12-24

FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1944-02-01

Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy

1944-04-03

US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional

1944-09-03

Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force

1945-06-05

USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany

1945-08-29

Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1945-10-20

Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial ofNuremberg

1946-05-01

Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander

1946-06-07

US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

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

1948-10-01

California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

1950-06-05

US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

1950-11-19

US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

1951-01-15

Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest

1952-04-28

Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.

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

1953-09-30

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

1956-10-15

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

1957-02-27

Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals

1957-06-24

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.

1958-09-12

US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate

1958-10-07

Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court

1959-05-25

US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional

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

1961-10-10

Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

1962-02-26

US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

1962-03-18

Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR

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

1962-10-15

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

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

1964-08-22

Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1

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

1966-03-25

US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional

1966-06-13

Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1966-12-12

US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta

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

1969-10-29

Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"

1969-12-21

Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)

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

1970-04-08

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

1970-06-09

Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1970-06-22

Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional

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

1971-06-28

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

1971-12-06

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

1972-06-18

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

1973-01-22

Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

1973-05-14

US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

1974-07-24

Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

1974-09-16

US General Haig becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe

1975-06-16

Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation

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

1976-07-02

Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

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

1978-04-25

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"

1978-09-03

Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff

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

1979-01-25

Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff

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

1980-06-16

US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents

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)

1981-09-15

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

1983-06-06

Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR

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

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

1984-06-11

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

1985-06-04

Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law

1986-03-25

Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes

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

1987-05-26

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

1987-10-21

Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination

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

1988-02-11

Anthony M Kennedy appointed to US Supreme Court

1988-02-18

Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1988-02-24

Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody

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

1988-10-01

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus head of state of the Soviet Union

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

1988-10-22

Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery

1988-10-23

Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate

1989-01-23

Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court

1989-03-22

US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate

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

1989-09-19

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

1990-04-16

Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977

1990-04-18

Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

1990-06-11

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

1990-09-24

Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market

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

1990-10-27

Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.

1991-02-09

US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case

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

1991-10-07

Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her

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

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

1992-05-18

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

1993-03-19

US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire

1993-09-22

Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin

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

1994-08-02

NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

1994-08-12

Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1997-03-19

US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

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

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.

1998-08-28

Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

1999-03-08

The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2000-06-28

Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.

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

2001-02-20

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.

2001-08-01

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2008-06-26

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.

2011-02-11

Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

2012-07-18

Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

2013-03-30

Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court

2016-02-09

Supreme Court blocks Obama climate change rules

2016-05-19

Donald Trump Releases List of Possible Supreme Court Picks

2017-03-07

Supreme Court Won't Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights

2017-04-11

Neil Gorsuch Sworn In As 9th Justice On The Supreme Court

2017-04-18

Arkansas execution delayed as Supreme Court refuses to overrule state court

2018-06-05

Gay adoption fight looms after US Supreme Court's cake ruling

1674-08-02

Philippe d'Orléans, Let Joy Reign Supreme

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)

1778-08-20

Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)

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)

1852-09-25

Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)

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)

1872-10-11

Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)

1876-08-17

Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1876-11-08

Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company

1877-02-09

George Allan England, The Gift Supreme

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)

1882-11-15

Felix Frankfurter, Vienna, Austria, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62)

1883-12-09

Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal/supreme commander

1884-04-04

Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet

1885-08-04

Oliver L. Sellers, The Gift Supreme

1886-02-27

Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)

1888-06-22

Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)

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)

1892-02-13

Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)

1895-11-25

Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet

1897-10-28

Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander

1897-12-27

Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw

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)

1902-09-24

Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)

1904-02-20

Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower: Supreme Commander in Chief

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]

1907-09-17

Warren E Burger, Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86)

1907-09-19

Lewis F Powell Jr, Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87)

1908-06-05

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)

1913-11-22

Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)

1915-01-23

Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)

1915-02-12

Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe)

1917-06-08

Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)

1918-01-10

Georges Riquier, Let Joy Reign Supreme

1920-04-14

John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice

1920-04-20

John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )

1921-07-16

Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe

1921-10-08

Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

1922-05-11

Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

1924-07-24

David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)

1924-10-01

William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )

1925-04-06

John Knox, British supreme court justice

1927-03-01

Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court, (d. 2012)

1927-09-09

Elvin Jones, Pontiac Michigan, American jazz drummer (Coltrane's A Love Supreme')

1928-04-12

Brooklyn Supreme, Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)

1930-03-26

Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )

1933-03-16

Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)

1934-06-18

Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander (Europe)

1935-02-05

John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army

1936-03-11

Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )

1936-07-23

Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )

1936-11-02

Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice

1937-04-13

Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)

1938-04-18

Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (S Afr army)

1938-08-15

Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice

1939-04-18

Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

1939-06-09

Ellen Stratton, Miss Supreme Queen

1939-07-17

Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

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)

1941-06-19

Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

1942-02-16

Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011) [disputed birthdate, 1941]

1945-01-11

Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order

1946-12-01

Jimmy McMillan, Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey

1948-06-23

Clarence Thomas, Savannah Ga, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- )

1950-04-01

Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1953-02-23

Marie-Jo Simenon, Let Joy Reign Supreme

1976-01-24

Castro Supreme, This Ain't Good Times

1977-02-08

Henrietta, Supreme Hardcore 1

1982-02-15

Nancy Rider, Supreme Hardcore 1

1983-10-21

David Kirwan, Supreme Commander

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

1356-09-19

Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies

1723-12-02

Philippe d'Orléans, Let Joy Reign Supreme

1765-10-20

William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44

1821-09-27

Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39

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)

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)

1930-03-08

Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)

1936-06-26

George Allan England, The Gift Supreme

1939-05-26

Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), 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

1941-10-13

GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies

1945-03-19

Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed

1946-04-22

Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73

1946-06-03

Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60

1948-08-27

Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)

1952-12-27

Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1954-02-11

Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877)

1965-02-22

Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)

1970-10-22

René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered

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

1980-01-19

William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81

1982-04-05

Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71

1984-11-28

Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87

1985-12-07

Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70

1988-02-02

G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit

1989-02-18

Raymond Girard, Let Joy Reign Supreme

1989-06-03

Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), dies of a heart attack at 89

1990-06-05

Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies

1992-07-31

G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72

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

1994-10-28

Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies

1995-06-25

Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78

1996-05-01

Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower: Supreme Commander in Chief

1997-07-24

William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91

1998-02-12

Georges Riquier, Let Joy Reign Supreme

1999-03-04

Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)

2002-04-15

Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)

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)

2007-12-18

Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court judge (b. 1924)

2008-02-25

Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)

2009-07-22

Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921)

2011-12-17

Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70

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