tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:48:56 +0000http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)Blogger633125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-578018760009168599Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-07T00:00:03.024-05:00On November 7, 1956, the United Nations General Assembly approved Resolution 1001, which called on the United Kingdom, France and Israel to pull all of their military forces out of Egypt. The Resolution came during the Suez Canal crisis, during which Israel invaded Egypt with the support of the U.K. and France, after Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.Read Resolution 1001http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/un-calls-for-uk-france-and-israel-to.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109969064861769167Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-07T00:00:02.594-05:00On November 7, 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act, overriding President Nixon's veto. Read the War Powers Act and review a summary of Congress and the War Power: Constitutional Anchor or Anachronism?, a seminar held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on October 15, 2001.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/congress-passed-war-powers-act.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109968755263128472Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-06T00:00:04.382-05:00On November 6, 1917, the state of New York adopted a constitutional amendment granting equal voting rights to women.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/new-york-state-granted-voting-rights.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-5756808906358012848Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-06T00:00:05.952-05:00On November 6, 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 1761, which condemned Apartheid in South Africa and called on member-nations to boycott the country. The Resolution also set up a Special Committee against Apartheid.Learn more about the role of the Special Committee against Apartheid from the African National Congress.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/un-votes-to-condemn-apartheid-in-south.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-9092213135378379737Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-05T00:00:06.668-05:00On November 5, 2006, the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity during his time in office. The execution took place on the following December 30.Learn more about the trial of Saddam Hussein from the U.S. Library of Congress.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/saddam-hussein-sentenced-to-death.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109961750776688389Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-05T00:00:07.272-05:00On November 5, 1872, women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony illegally cast her vote in a New York Congressional district election. Read the indictment subsequently brought against her and the transcript of her address to the jury, plus JURIST's trial analysis from Professor Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Anthony was fined $100 after a directed verdict.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/susan-b-anthony-voted-illegally-in.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-9125346146279031464Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-04T00:00:03.820-05:00On November 4, 1996, Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amir tried and given a life sentence for the murder. Learn more about the trial of Yigal Amir from the New York Times.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/israel-pm-yitzhak-rabin-assassinated.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109951832629837271Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-04T00:00:05.321-05:00On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death. Read Kathleen J. Burns, A Chronicle of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts [DOC], Lawyers Journal (January 1999).http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/massachusetts-instituted-death-penalty.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-2635944649619066299Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-03T00:00:01.938-05:00On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.Learn more about the trial of John Austin.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/last-public-execution-at-tyburn-gallows.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109922900691082181Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-03T00:00:03.963-05:00On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/us-supreme-court-ruled-indians-not-us.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-8416137336009683500Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-02T00:00:37.481-05:00On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.Read the full Balfour Declaration as well as http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/balfour-declaration-issued.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109922848088134471Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-11-02T00:00:09.747-05:00On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders. Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/congress-set-minimum-federal-sentences.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-335740803336305304Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-11-01T00:00:29.585-04:00On November 1, 1993, the Treaty on the European Union (Maastricht Treaty) officially came into force, formally creating the European Union. Learn more about the history of the EU.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/11/maastricht-treaty-comes-into-force.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109922807677941396Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-11-01T00:00:27.896-04:00On November 1, 1943, the federal Office of Price Administration first established rent control in wartime New York City.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/11/rent-control-established-in-new-york.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-5462779954468529277Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-31T00:00:03.771-04:00On October 31, 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two security guards, precipitating riots throughout the country.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/india-pm-indira-ghandi-assassinated.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109899278575445135Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-31T00:00:00.314-04:00On October 31, 1864, Congress admitted Nevada as the 36th state in the Union. With President Lincoln coming up for re-election and looking for support for his proposed 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Nevadans had moved quickly to meet the legal requirements for statehood, ultimately sending the entire text of the proposed state constitution to Washington by telegraph, creating in the longest http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/10/nevada-admitted-to-union-after.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-8814606679751920652Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-30T00:00:00.721-04:00On October 30, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt approved $1 billion in wartime aid to the Allies under the Lend-Lease Act. America did not formally enter World War II until December of 1941, but the U.S. Government nonetheless provided crucial aid to the Allied Powers from the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March of 1941 through the end of the war. The Lend-Lease Agreement between the U.S. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/roosevelt-approves-1-billion-in-aid-to.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109899224399986212Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-30T00:00:02.429-04:00On October 30, 1905 [October 17 old calendar], Tsar Nicholas II granted Russians basic civil liberties in the October Manifesto.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/10/russians-granted-basic-civil-liberties.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-754034098434682605Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-29T00:00:01.248-04:00On October 29, 1863, the International Red Cross was established in Geneva, Switzerland. Learn more about the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the history of International Humanitarian law.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/red-cross-established.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109899202448519727Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-29T00:00:08.621-04:00On October 29, 1901, Leon Czolgosz was executed for assassinating President William McKinley.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/10/mckinley-assassin-executed.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-7845918242209012644Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-28T00:00:14.780-04:00On October 28, 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Learn more about the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and read declassified documents as provided by The George Washington University.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/khrushchev-orders-removal-of-ussr.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109889741335456503Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-28T00:00:11.434-04:00On October 28, 1919, the Volstead Act was passed, ushering in Prohibition.Learn more about the Volstead Act and the prohibition era from the National Archives and Records Administration.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/10/volstead-act-passed-establishing.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-5190600045373224560Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-27T00:00:01.316-04:00On October 27, 1986, the so-called "Big Bang" deregulated markets throughout the London Stock Exchange as part of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's financial reform program. Learn more about the effects of the Big Bang in the United Kingdom.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/uk-financial-markets-deregulated-on-big.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-109882178028306108Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-27T00:00:03.054-04:00On October 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the pen-name "PUBLIUS" to promote the ratification of the new US Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2006/10/first-of-federalist-papers-published.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Bernard Hibbitts)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279346.post-4406092326673902326Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +00002009-10-26T01:19:46.388-04:00On October 26, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and his Jordanian counterpart Abdelsalam al-Majali signed the Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The treaty ended a state of war that had existed between the two nations since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. In addition to other provisions, the accord established normal diplomatic relations, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/2009/10/israel-and-jordan-sign-peace-accord.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Ryan Olden)0