In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that young people serving life prison terms should have “a meaningful opportunity to obtain release” provided they didn’t kill their victims. In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriages. (“Megan’s Law,” as it’s known, was named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and murdered in 1994.) In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. (Iraq apologized for the attack, calling it a mistake, and paid more than $27 million in compensation.) In 1987, 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating Black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal. In 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S.

Truman seized control of the nation’s railroads, delaying - but not preventing - a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen. In 1940, the Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II. In 1536, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn invalid after she failed to produce a male heir Boleyn, already condemned for high treason, was executed two days later.

Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

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