8/20/1866: President Andrew Johnson proclaims an "end to insurrection in the United States."

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8/19/1937: Justice Hugo Black takes the oath.

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8/18/1920: The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified.

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8/17/1988: Republican party nominates George H.W. Bush for President. He would appoint David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

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8/5/1974: Shortly after the Supreme Court decided United States v. Nixon, President Nixon released the "smoking gun" tape recorded in the Oval office.

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8/4/1961: President Barack Obama's birthday. He would appoint two Justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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8/3/1994: Justice Stephen Breyer takes oath.

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8/2/1923: President Calvin Coolidge's Inauguration. He would appoint Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to the Supreme Court.

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8/1/1942: Military commissions conclude for eight nazi saboteurs. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these trials in Ex Parte Quirin.

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6/24/2013: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin I is decided.

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6/23/1987: South Dakota v. Dole is decided.

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6/22/1992: R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul is decided.

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6/10/1916: Justice Charles Evans Hughes resigns.

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6/9/1970: Justice Harry Blackmun (no relation) takes oath.

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6/8/1925: Gitlow v. People of the State of New York decided.

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6/7/1965: Griswold v. Connecticut is decided.

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5/31/1860: Justice Peter Daniel's death.

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5/30/1865: Justice John Catron dies.

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5/19/1921: Chief Justice Edward Douglass White dies.

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5/18/1860: Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination.

5/18/1896: Plessy v. Ferguson decided.

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5/17/1954: Brown v. Board of Education and Bolling v. Sharpe are decided.

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5/16/1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is enacted. The Supreme Court upheld prosecutions brought under this law in Schenck, Debs, and Abrams.

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5/12/1790: Justice James Iredell takes the judicial oath.

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5/11/1942: Gordon Hirabayashi "failed to report to the Civil Control Station within the designated area." The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of his conviction in Hirabayashi v. U.S. (1943).

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5/10/1886: Yick Wo v. Hopkins decided.

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5/9/1974: Resolution to impeach President Nixon introduced in the House of Representatives. On 7/24/1974, the Supreme Court would decide U.S. v. Nixon.

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5/3/1802: Washington D.C. incorporated as the capital of the United States. Article I, Section 8 empowers Congress to "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States."

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5/2/1927: Buck v. Bell decided.

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5/1/1871: Knox v. Lee decided.

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4/22/1992: Planned Parenthood v. Casey argued.

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4/21/1800: Justice Alfred Moore takes judicial oath.

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4/20/2010: United States v. Stevens decided.

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4/19/1920: Missouri v. Holland decided.

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4/18/1775: Paul Revere's ride.

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3/8/1841: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's birthday.

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3/7/1965: Civil rights marchers are attacked by the police in Selma, Alabama. The event would become known as "Bloody Sunday."

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3/2/2016: Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt argued.

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3/1/1880: Strauder v. West Virginia decided.

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2/21/1868: President Johnson orders Secretary of War Edwin Stanton removed from office. In Myers v. U.S. (1926), the Supreme Court found that Johnson's actions were lawful.

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2/20/1933: The 21st Amendment is submitted to the states.

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2/19/1942: President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066. The Supreme Court would consider the constitutionality of this Executive Order in Korematsu v. U.S. (1944).

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2/18/1988: Justice Anthony Kennedy takes judicial oath.

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