The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere took place after at least one Supreme Court justice signaled, in that week’s ruling on abortion, that the court could reconsider the right to same-sex marriage recognized in 2015. In the U.S., parades celebrating LGBTQ pride kicked off in some of America’s biggest cities amid new fears about the potential erosion of freedoms won through decades of activism. Britain’s Boris Johnson warned fellow leaders not to give in to “fatigue” even as Russia fires missiles at Kyiv. One year ago: Opening a summit in Germany, President Joe Biden and Western allies were intent on keeping economic fallout from the war in Ukraine from fracturing the global coalition working to punish Russia’s aggression. was removed from the Dow Jones industrial average, where it had been an original component in 1896 it was replaced by the Walgreens drugstore chain. Joe Crowley of New York, the fourth-ranking House Democrat, lost a primary to 28-year-old liberal activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Seven-time champion Roger Federer was stunned by 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon third-seeded Maria Sharapova was knocked out by the 131st-ranked qualifier, losing to Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.įive years ago: A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR’) said the court was making a historic mistake by refusing to recognize that the ban discriminates against Muslims. Supreme Court gave the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans and also cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California.New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder. Ten years ago: In deciding its first cases on the issue, the U.S. In 2020, after protesters in Washington, D.C., attempted to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect monuments, memorials and statues. Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom (it was later released in the United States under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”). In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. In 1996, the Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of “compelling evidence” Iraq had plotted to assassinate former President George H.W.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. Bush went back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators. Elvis Presley performed his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. In 1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner). In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin. In 1925, Charles Chaplin’s classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premiered at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

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