Events in history
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