Fixed stars in Libra
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp
Zuben Elgenubi alpha	13SCO41	15SCO05	222 01 38	-15 50 07	+00 20 22	2.90	A3
Zuben Elakribi delta	13SCO53	15SCO17	224 34 27	-08 19 18	+08 15 07	4.90 var	A1
Zuben Hakrabi nu	17SCO22	18SCO46	225 57 29	-16 03 51	+01 12 07	5.28	K5
Zubenelschemali beta	17SCO59	19SCO22	228 34 41	-09 11 59	+08 30 06	2.74	B8
sigma	19SCO18	20SCO41	225 17 04	-25 05 13	-07 38 18	3.41	M4
iota	19SCO37	21SCO00	227 20 30	-19 36 14	-01 50 37	4.66	B9
Zuben Elakrab gamma	23SCO44	25SCO08	233 10 53	-14 37 28	+04 23 28	4.02	G6
upsilon	27SCO31	28SCO54	233 49 58	-27 58 16	-08 25 51	3.78	K5
tau	27SCO58	29SCO21	233 53 40	-29 36 54	-10 00 53	3.80	B3

Justice

• Feb 13 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry the Eighth, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. -  Saturn/Zubenalgenubi
• Feb 13 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition. - Neptune/Zubenalgenubi
• Mar 21st 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. - Neptune/Zubenalgenubi
• Mar 21st 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21 demonstrators. - South Node/Zunenelschemali
• May 13th 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group "MOVE" ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters; eleven people died in the resulting fire. - Saturn/Zuben Elakrab
• April 16th 1997 Police in Israel recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for breach of trust in an influence-trading scandal. (However, prosecutors later decided not to pursue charges against Netanyahu, citing a lack of proof.) - Jupiter/Zubenalgenubi

Equality and justice

• Nancy Astor elected as Britain's first woman MP Nov 28 1919 - North Node /Zuben Elakrab
• July 2nd 1964, President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. - Neptune/Zubenalgenubi
• Jan 10th 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the US Senate by popular vote, took his seat. - Neptune /Zuben Elakrab
• May 12th 1978, the Commerce Department said hurricanes would no longer be named exclusively after women. - Uranus/Zubenalgenubi
• May 1st 1978, Ernest Morial was inaugurated as the first black mayor of New Orleans. - Uranus occulting/Zubenalgenubi
• April 11th 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. - Uranus/Zuben Elakrab
• Feb 22nd 1993 The UN Security Council unanimously approved creation of an international war crimes tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in former Yugoslavia.  Pluto/Zuben Elakrab
• Feb 22nd 1993 A jury was seated in Los Angeles in the federal trial of four police officers accused of violating Rodney King's civil rights. - Pluto/Zuben Elakrab
• April 16th 1993 President Clinton received gay and lesbian activists in the Oval Office for a one-hour meeting - Pluto/Zuben Elakrab
• Mar 12th 1994, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. - North Node/Zuben Elakrab, Jupiter/Zubenalgenubi

Trade

• April 16th 1993 At the White House, President Clinton pressed Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa to help ease Japan's persistent trade surplus with the US. - Pluto/Zuben Elakrab

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