Freedom Activist Network's Guide To
Chronology of
Freedom
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2010
Jan 1 2010
New Hampshire same gender marriage law takes effect.
2009
Dec 29 2009
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard signs same gender marriage and adoption
bill into law.
Dec 21 2009
Legislative Assembly of the Federal District of Mexico City approves same
gender marriage and adoption bill 39-20.
Dec 18 2009
Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signs sex gender marriage bill into law.
Dec 3 2009
Washington state "all-but-marriage" law and Maine's repeal of gender marriage
law take effect.
Nov 7 2009
Larry Bonner Lippert,
cannabis liberty activist, dies.
Nov 4 2009
Italian judge finds 22 Central
Intelligence Agency agents guilty of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr,
aka Abu Omar, on Feb 17 2003.
Nov 4 2009
Washington state voters reject repeal of "all-but-marriage" law and Maine
voters repeal same gender marriage law.
Oct 1 2009
Nevada domestic partnership law takes effect.
Sept 28 2009
Oregon legislature reforms domestic partnership law to include surnames.
Sept 27 2009
William Lewis Safire,
syndicated columnist with
New York Times, and
self-identified libertarian
conservative, dies.
Sept 1 2009
Vermont same gender marriage law takes effect.
Aug 21 2009
Mexico Government decriminalizes small quantities of cannabis, cocaine, opiates
and other drugs. Persons possessing less than 5 grams of cannabis, .5 grams
of cocaine, 50 milligrams of opiates face no criminal charges. Persons caught
3 times may be required to undergo free drug treatment.
google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iP1GlMCOzYSi8kbAUY1lLDdqc4vAD9A763HO0
Aug 12 2009
US President Barack Hussein Obama
awards Presidential Medal
of Freedom to Nancy Goodman Brinker, Pedro Jose Greer Jr, Stephen Hawking,
Jack French Kemp Jr (deceased),
Edward Moore Kennedy (deceased),
Billie Jean King, Joseph Lowery, Joseph Medicine Crow,
Harvey Bernard Milk (deceased),
Sandra Day O’Connor, Sidney
Poitier, Chita Rivera, Mary Robinson, Janet Davison Rowley, Desmond Tutu,
Muhammad Yunus
Aug 3 2009
Wisconsin domestic partnership law takes effect.
July 2 2009
New Delhi India's highest court overturns New Delhi's colonial-era criminal
sodomy law ruling it violates fundamental rights.
airamerica.com/blog/2009/jul/02/india-legalizes-gay-sex,
nytimes.com/2009/07/03/world/asia/03india.html?_r=1&ref=asia
July 1 2009
Colorado recognizes designated beneficiary aggreements and Hungary registered
partnership law takes effect.
June 23 2009
Israel navy intercepts Greek boat Arion carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
Strip 23 miles from the Gaza coast.
Cynthia Ann McKinney, Mairead
Maguire and 19 others on Arion are detained.
ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2009/06/30/mckinney_gaza_ship_intercepted.html
June 3 2009
New Hampshire approves same gender marriage law.
May 31 2009
Nevada legislature overrides governor's veto of domestic partnership bill.
May 26 2009
In Strauss v Horton, California Supreme Court upholds Proposition
8 constitutional amendment that only recognizes marriage between a man and
a woman. Court also upholds existing same gender marriages prior to Proposition
8's passage.
May 18 2009
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signs "all-but-marriage" bill into law.
May 6 2009
Maine approves same gender marriage law.
May 1 2009
Sweden allows same gender marriage.
Apr 27 2009
Japan recognizes same gender marriage between its citizens and foreign nationals
married where same gender marriage is allowed.
Apr 7 2009
Vermont allows same gender marriage.
Apr 3 2009
Iowa Supreme Court decision on marriage equality to allow same gender marriage.
Apr 1 2009
Sweden allows same gender marriage.
Mar 29 2009
Transportation
Security Administration officials detain and interrogate
Campaign for Liberty Director
of Development Steve Bierfeldt
at Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport while carrying $4700 cash from
sale of Campaign for Liberty merchandise.
thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/969
Mar 27 2009
Japan recognizes same gender marriage between its citizens and foreign nationals
married where same gender marriage is allowed.
Jan 28 2009
Colombia Constitutional Court extends couple rights to same gender couples.
Jan 13 2009
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Tony Blair, John Howard,
Alvaro Uribe
Jan 1 2009
Norway allows same gender marriage.
2008
Dec 23 2008
Israel naval boat rams yacht Dignity carrying humanitarian aid heading to
Gaza Strip. Cynthia Ann McKinney
and 15 others on the damaged yacht safely make it to Tyre Lebannon.
ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/12/29/cynthia_mckinney_gaza.html
Nov 19 2008
Supreme Court of Nepal requires government to allow same gender marriage.
Nov 12 2008
Connecticut allows same gender marriage.
Nov 4 2008
United States voters elect Barack Hussein
Obama President of the United States with 365 electoral votes and 53%
of the popular vote. Michigan voters pass Proposition 1 legalizing medicinal
cannabis with 63% yes votes. California voters pass Proposition 8 that only
recognizes marriage between a man and a woman with 52% yes votes. Florida
voters pass Amendment 2 that defines marriage as "the legal union of only
one man and one women" and prohibits other unions of "substantial equivalent"
to marriage with 62% yes votes. Arizona voters pass Proposition 102 that
only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman with 56% yes votes.
Oct 10 2008
Connecticut Supreme Court rules marriage equality allows same gender marriage.
Sept 1 2008
Amy Goodman and 2
Democracy Now! producers assaulted
and falsely arrested by police while covering protests at
Republican National
Convention in Saint Paul Minnesota.
July 30 2008
Turkey Constitutional Court rules
Justice and Development
Party will lose half its government subsidy because of its efforts to
repeal a prohibition banning head scarves and veils worn by Turkish university
women.
July 1 2008
Maryland domestic partnership law takes effect.
June 19 2008
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Benjamin Carson, Anthony Fauci,
Tom Lantos, Peter Pace,
Donna Shalala, Laurence Silberman
June 16 2008
California allows same gender marriage after California Supreme Court decision.
June 11 2008
Norway allows same gender marriage.
May 22 2008
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signs domestic partnership bill into law.
May 15 2008
California Supreme Court decides
4-3 that same gendered couples have an equal right to marriage.
sfgate.com/samesexmarriage2008
May 1 2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka DC
Madam, convicted of US federal racketeering, money laundering, pandering
and prostitution law violations, dies from hanging, possibly suicide.
Apr 5 2008
Charlton Heston,
former President
of National Rifle
Association and firearms liberty activist, dies.
Feb 27 2008
William F Buckley Jr, conservative
author and philosopher, dies.
Feb 17 2008
Kosovo Parliament declares independence from Serbia.
Feb 7 2008
John M Hartman, founder and
director of both Ohio Cannabis
Society and
Northcoast
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (defunct), and
Cannabis Liberty Activist, dies
Feb 1 2008
Oregon domestic partnership law takes effect after rescision of a court
injunction.
Jan 1 2008
New Hampshire and Uruguay civil union laws take effect.
Jan 1 2008
Mae Nutt, aka Grandma Marijuana, medicinal
cannabis liberty activist, dies.
2007
Dec 13 2007
Corrine Millet, Bd Dir of
Patients Out of Time, US FDA
Investigational New Drug Compassionate Access Program prescription cannabis
recipient and glaucoma patient, dies.
Nov 5 2007
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Gary Stanley Becker,
Oscar Elias Biscet, Francis S Collins, Benjamin L Hooks,
Henry John Hyde (deceased),
Brian P Lamb, Harper Lee, Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf
Sept 27 2007
John E Berthoud, President of
National Taxpayers Union,
President of National
Taxpayers Union Foundation and
Taxpayer Rights Activist, dies.
Sept 18 2007
Maryland Supreme Court upholds state law prohibiting same gender marriage.
Sept 15 2007
National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Founder
R Keith Stroup and
High Times Assoc Publisher
Richard Cusick arrested on cannabis
possession charges while attending
Freedom Rally in Boston,
Massachusetts.
Aug 30 2007
Iowa court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
Aug 24 2007
Aaron Russo,
Libertarian Party candidate for
US President, cinematic film producer, Emmy award recipient and concert
promoter, dies.
Jan 11 2007
Robert Anton Wilson, author,
philosopher,
anarchist,
agnostic,
Subgenius,
cannabis smoker and friend of
Timothy Leary, dies.
2007
Coahuila Mexico, New Hampshire, Oregon, Switzerland, and Washington allow
civil union and/or domestic partnership.
2006
Dec 26 2006
James Wilson, aka Chef Ra,
High Times columnist and
cannabis liberty activist, dies.
Dec 15 2006
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Ruth Johnson Colvin, Norman Francis,
Paul Bede Johnson, Riley B B King,
Joshua Lederberg, David McCullough, Norman Mineta , John O'Neil aka
Buck O'Neil, William Lewis Safire,
Natan Sharansky.
Nov 28 2006
South Africa Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka signs marriage equality
law allowing same gender marriage.
Nov 18 2006
Mike Alcalay,
Green
Aid: Medical Marijuana Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc
Board Director,
Oakland Cannabis
Buyers' Cooperative Medical Director,
medicinal cannabis liberty
activist, acquired immune deficiency syndrome and leukemia patient, dies.
Nov 16 2006
Milton R Friedman, Nobel Prize
in Economics recipient, classical
liberal, author and free market
economist, dies.
Nov 7 2006
Arizona voters reject Proposition 107 that only recognizes marriage between
a man and a woman with 52% no votes. 7 other states' voters approve propositions
restricting marriage to one man and one woman.
July 30 2006
Murray Bookchin, libertarian
socialist, Trotskyite, environmentalist and anti-capitalist, dies.
July 2 2006
Lynn Zimmer, drug liberty activist,
multiple scleroisis patient and co-author of
Marijuana Myths Marijuana
Facts, dies.
Mar 27 2006
Franklyn C "Lyn" Nofziger,
Republican speechwriter and medicinal cannabis liberty proponent, dies at
Falls Church, Virginia.
Mar 15 2006
Czech Republic parliament approves civil union law that takes effect July
1.
Mar 1 2006
Harry Browne, author and Libertarian
Party nominee for US Pres, dies at Franklin, Tennessee.
2005
Dec 19 2005
United Kingdom's Civil Partnership Act takes effect.
Dec 17 2005
US President George Walker Bush admits
authorizing domestic electronic surveillance without court order.
Dec 16 2005
New York Times publishes
"Bush
reportedly authorized agency to spy on Americans". The authorization
is in apparent violation of the
Foreign
Surveillance Intelligence Act. New York Times admits withholding
the story from print for over a year, news that could have influenced the
outcome of the 2004 US Presidential election.
Dec 10 2005
Eugene Joseph McCarthy, former
US Senator, candidate for US President and peace activist, dies.
Dec 8 2005
R W Bradford, founder of
Liberty, Editor of
Journal of Ayn
Rand Studies, Randian objectivist and libertarian, dies.
nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/essays/2-sciabarra.pdf
Dec 5 2005
United Kingdom civil partnership law takes effect.
Dec 1 2005
South Africa Constitutional Court rules prohibition of same gender marriage
unconstitutional.
Nov 9 2005
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Muhammad Ali, Carol Burnett, Vinton Cerf, Robert Conquest,
Aretha Franklin, Alan Greenspan,
Andy Griffith, Paul Harvey, Robert Kahn, Sonny Montgomery, Richard B Myers,
Jack Nicklaus, Frank Robinson, Paul Rusesabagina.
Oct 24 2005
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, African
American civil rights activist, dies in Detroit, Michigan.
June 23 2005
New Brunswick Canada judge rules marriage equality allows same gender marriage.
June 8 2005
USS Liberty Veterans
Association Inc General Legal Counsel James R Gotcher submits
"A Report: War Crimes
Committed Against U.S. Military Personnel, June 8 1967", claiming Israel
committed war crimes during Israeli military's attack on USS Liberty in
international waters off Egypt's Sinai coast on June
8 1967.
May 12 2005
United States District Judge rules Nebraska's prohibition of same gender
marriage violates Equal Protect Clause of 14th Amendment.
Apr 20 2005
Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell signs bill allowing same gender civil unions.
Apr 17 2005
Tax Freedom Day, the day each year
after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Mar 14 2005
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer rules California's
prohibition of same gender marriage unconstitutional.
Feb 27 2005
United Nations
World Health Organization's
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) that would increase tobacco
taxes and prohibit public tobacco smoking, advertising, promotions and
sponsorships takes effect.
who.int/tobacco/en
Feb 20 2005
Hunter Stockton Thompson, author,
journalist and drug liberty activist, dies of gun wound in Woody Creek, Colorado.
Feb 11 2005
Attorney Lynne Stewart found guilty of aiding terrorism after she issued
a press release with a statement by her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,
urging his followers to break a cease fire with the Egyptian government.
Prosecutors contend the statement was the equivalent of a call to resume
hostilities.
Feb 7 2005
Cuba government prohibits smoking in public places.
Jan 19 2005
Louisiana Supreme Court upholds same gender marriage prohibition amendment.
2005
Latvia and Uganda amend their constitutions prohibiting same gender marriage.
2004
Dec 14 2004
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Lewis Paul Bremer III,
Tommy Franks, George John Tenet.
Nov 2 2004
Ann Arbor, Michigan voters overwhelmingly pass Proposal C aka
Ann Arbor Medical Marijuana Initiative, 74% yes
to 26% no. Freedom Activist
Network Director Richard James
Birkett authored Proposal C. George
Walker Bush reelected US President.
Sept 21 2004
Montel Williams discusses medicinal
cannabis with activist Angel McClary
Raich on Montel Williams Show.
View show on Real
Player.
Sept 18 2004
Louisiana voters approve constitutional amendment restricting marriage to
one man and one woman.
July 7 2004
Thomas Chong, actor, comedian and
cannabis liberty activist, is released from prison where he began serving
his term on Oct 8 2003 after pleading guilty to
US drug paraphrenalia law charges.
June 23 2004
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Edward W Brooke, Doris Day, Gilbert M Grosvenor, Gordon B
Hinckley, Estee Lauder, Rita Moreno, Arnold Palmer, Arnall Patz,
Norman Podhoretz, Walter B Wriston.
June 5 2004
Ronald Wilson Reagan, former
US President, dies.
June 4 2004
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Pope John Paul II.
May 17 2004
First same gender marriages in United States performed in Massachusetts.
Apr 15 2004
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Jan 20 2004
Ron Crickenberger, former Political
Director of Libertarian
National Committee Inc, dies.
2003
Dec 2 2003
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Robert L Bartley.
Nov 18 2003
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in Goodridge v Department of Public
Health, rules state may not deny same gender marriage.
Nov 12 2003
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Lord Robertson.
Nov 5 2003
Police officers, with guns drawn, raid Stratford High School in Goose Creek,
South Carolina, ordering students to get down on the floor while police search
for cannabis. Students who didn't move fast enough were handcuffed. During
the 45 minute raid no drugs were found. On Apr 4 2006 a federal judge approved
a $1.2 million settlement for 59 students terrorized by the search.
stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/430/goosecreek.shtml
Nov 4 2003
Montel Williams, television talk
show host of Montel Williams Show, is arrested at Detroit Metropolitan
Airport, Romulus, Michigan, for possession of cannabis and paraphernalia.
Williams later pleads guilty to possession of paraphernalia.
Oct 8 2003
Thomas Chong, actor, comedian and
cannabis liberty activist, begins serving a 9 months prison term after being
sentenced for US drug paraphrenalia law violations on Sept
11 2003.
Sept 11 2003
Thomas Chong, actor, comedian and
cannabis liberty activist, is sentenced to 9 months prison, $103,000 fine
and a year probation after pleading guilty to US drug paraphrenalia law charges
on May 13 2003.
Aug 29 2003
Alaska Court of Appeals decides Alaskans have the right to grow and possess
upto 4 ounces of marijuana in their home.
mpp.org/states/site/quicknews.cgi?key=4870
July 23 2003
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Jacques Barzun, Julia Child, Roberto Walker Clemente, Van
Cliburn, Charlton Heston, Edward
Teller, R David Thomas, Byron Raymond White, James Q Wilson, John R Wooden
June 29 2003
Don Topping, founder of
Drug Policy Forum of
Hawaii, medicinal cannabis liberty
activist and cancer patient, dies.
June 10 2003
Ontario Appeals Court rules same gender marriage prohibition violates Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.
June 7 2003
Cheryl Miller,
medicinal cannabis liberty activist
and multiple sclerosis patient, dies.
June 4 2003
Ed Rosenthal is sentenced to one
day in jail after found guilty of violating US federal law prohibiting
manufacture of cannabis.
June 1 2003
Belgium law allowing same gender marriage takes effect.
May 28 2003
National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws sponsors first
Great American Bowl benefit
at Hollywood Palace Theater, Hollywood, CA with
B-Real,
Jack Black,
Steve Bloom,
Jack Herer,
Bill Maher,
Paul Montgomery Shore,
R Keith Stroup Esq
May 23 2003
New York City police officers mistakenly raid the home of Joe Celcis, smashing
open the door, handcuffing several people, pointing a gun in the face of
a 12 year old girl, and ransacking the house for 90 minutes before realizing
they had raided the wrong address.
May 13 2003
Thomas Chong, actor, comedian and
cannabis liberty activist, pleads guilty to US drug paraphrenalia law charges
after his indictment resulting from Operation Pipe Dream on
Feb 24 2003. Chong claims the plea was to spare
his wife and son prosecution.
Apr 16 2003
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Mar 30 2003
Dyanne Petersen, of
Libertarian Alliance, dies.
Feb 24 2003
US Drug
Enforcement Administration announces indictments of 55 persons, including
actor and comedian Thomas Chong, the
culmination of investigations code named
Operation Pipe
Dreams and Operation Headhunter.
Feb 17 2003
22 Central Intelligence
Agency agents participate in abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, aka
Abu Omar, in Milan Italy and sent him to Egypt for torture.
2002
Nov 20 2002
William Shotey,
Libertarian, Defender of Liberty
Award recipient; Development Director of
Small Government Alliance
and Vice Chair of
Liberatian Party of
Wayne County, dies.
Oct 13 2002
Eugene Feingold, Board Director
of
American
Civil Liberties Union of Washtenaw County, dies.
July 9 2002
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Hank Aaron, Bill Cosby, Placido Domingo, Peter Drucker, Katharine
Graham, D A Henderson, Irving
Kristol, Nelson Mandela, Gordon Moore,
Nancy Reagan, Fred Rogers, A M Rosenthal
June 9 2002
Robert Lunday, member of
Sensible Seattle Coalition
Steering Committee and cannabis liberty activist, dies.
Apr 19 2002
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Jan 23 2002
Robert Nozick,
philosopher and author of
Anarchy, State and
Utopia, dies.
2001
Nov 10 2001
Ken Kesey, aka Merry Prankster, author
of One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest, dies.
Oct 25 2001
US Drug Enforcement Administration agents raid and close medicinal cannabis
provider Los Angeles
Cannabis Resource Center in West Hollywood, California.
letfreedomgrow.com/articles/ca020826.htm
Sept 11 2001
Come to be known as 9/11, both World Trade
Center 110-story towers collapse, killing nearly 3,000, after each tower
is rammed by separate hijacked commercial jets, in New York City, New York.
Third plane, either a small jet or a hijacked commercial jet, broadsides
Pentagon, killing 187, in Arlington, Virginia. Fourth hijacked commercial
jet crashes in SW Pennsylvania, killing all aboard, but fails to reach the
hijackers' intended target. Alternative explanations gain credibility later.
Sept 2 2001
US Federal Bureau of
Investigation agent kills camp owner
Grover Thomas Crosslin at his
Rainbow Farm Campground,
near Vandalia, Michigan, after Crosslin refuses to surrender himself for
arrest or his property for forfeiture, preceded by an earlier search of his
property allegedly revealing cannabis cultivation. Crosslin was also wanted
for firearms law , tax law and bail violations.
mapinc.org/norml/v03.n1305.a07.html?,
notesonthescene.com/rainbow_farm.html
Aug 18-19 2001
150,000 attend first two-day Seattle
Hempfest held at Myrtle Edwards Park Pier 70, Seattle, Washington.
June 2 2001
Robert C Randall, medicinal cannabis
liberty activist, glaucoma patient, co-founder of
Alliance for Cannabis
Therapeutics, and co-author (w Alice
M O'Leary),
Marijuana
Rx: The Patients' Fight for Medicinal Pot, dies.
Apr 30 2001
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Apr 25 2001
Rheumatoid arthritis patient William
Foster, originally sentenced to 93 years in prison for medicinal cannabis
cultivation, is paroled after serving 5 years.
Apr 1 2001
Netherland law allowing same gender marriage takes effect.
Jan 14 2001
Ontario Canada court upholds validity of first modern same gender marriage.
2000
Dec 6 2000
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aug 20 2000
100,000 attend 10th annual Seattle
Hempfest held at Myrtle Edwards Park Pier 70, Seattle, Washington.
Aug 9 2000
US President George Walker Bush awards
Presidential Medal of
Freedom to James Edward Burke, John
Hubbard Chafee, Wesley Kanne Clark,
William Crowe, Marian Wright Edelman,
John Kenneth Galbraith, George
Higgins, Jesse Jackson, Mildred
Jeffrey, Mathilde Krim, George Stanley
McGovern, Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, Cruz Reynoso, Gardner Taylor, Simon Wiesenthal
June 14 2000
Peter Alexander McWilliams, medicinal
cannabis liberty activist and author, while under house arrest, dies of
suffocation from vomiting, after US federal judge deprives McWilliams of
the most effective medicine that could have prevented his nausea, medicinal
cannabis.
May 3 2000
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
2000
South Carolina, Oklahoma and Massachusetts prohibit tattoos.
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1999
Dec 17 1999
Jim N Rosenfield, co-founder of
Media Awareness Project;
host of Conservatives on
Prohibition, medicinal cannabis liberty activist, dies.
Sept 6 1999
Robert Kundert, cannabis liberty
activist, founder and president of
American Cannabis Society,
dies.
Aug 22 1999
90,000 attend 9th annual Seattle
Hempfest held at Myrtle Edwards Park Pier 70, Seattle, Washington.
July 8 1999
US Drug
Enforcement Administration reclassifies Marinol, a synthetic form of
tetra-hydro-cannabinol, a psychoactive compound found in cannabis, from Schedule
II to Schedule III.
May 11 1999
Tax
Freedom Day, the day each year after which Americans' earnings are
their own.
Apr 10 1999
Mary Jane Rathbun, aka "Brownie Mary",
medicinal cannabis liberty activist, dies.
Feb 9 1999
Louisiana appeals court decides Louisiana's sodomy law violates "the right
of consenting adults to engage in non-commercial sexual activity, free from
government interference, is protected by the privacy clause of the Louisiana
constitution."
1998
Oct 15 1998
Winston Perry Bullard, former
Michigan State Representative and cannabis liberty activist, dies of
auto-asphyxiaphilia in Canton Township, Michigan.
May 29 1998
Barry Morris Goldwater, aka Mister
Conservative, 1964 Republican Party nominee for US Pres, AZ US Senator,
Conservative Activist and libertarian
sympathizer, dies.
Apr 13 1998
Free Todd McCormick Rally held
at 6:30 pm at Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles, California. Speakers include
medicinal cannabis liberty activist and unsuccessful Republican candidate
for California governor Dennis Peron
and Ann McCormick, Todd's mother.
1997
Nov 5 1997
Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin,
self-identifed liberal and author of
Four Essays on Liberty
and "Two Concepts of Liberty", dies in Oxford, England.
July 1997
Medicinal cannabis activist Todd
McCormick is arrested by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents on
federal cannabis cultivation violations. Todd McCormick claims California's
Proposition 215 allows him to possess and cultivate cannabis to treat his
intense cancer-induced pain and his clinical depression.
June 26 1997
Supreme Court of
the United States invalidates Communications Decency Act.
June 15 1997
Legalize! sponsors First
Global Anti-Prohibition
Day at Amsterdam, San Francisco, Norwich and Tallinn
May 27 1997
In Suitum v Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (96-243),
Supreme Court of
the United States decides states must provide due process in "just
compensation" claims by propertyowners burdened by land regulation.
May 26 1997
Supreme Court of
the United States refuses to hear appeal of US Circuit Court of Appeals
decision that Baltimore's prohibition of tobacco billboard advertising does
not violate US Constitution's First Amendment. The Circuit Court wrote
"Baltimore's interest is to protect children who are not yet independently
able to assess the value of the message presented.''.
May 15 1997
US Coast Guard announces new policy of seizing boats attempting to enter
Cuban waters.
Apr 5 1997
Irwin Allen Ginsberg, poet and
hippie, dies.
Apr 4 1997
Leo Paoli, author of California Marijuana
Initiative and cannabis liberty activist, dies in Napa, California.
1997
Montana Supreme Court decides Montana's gay sex law violates the right to
privacy as protected by the state's constitution.
1996
Dec 20 1996
Carl Sagan dies.
May 31 1996
Timothy Leary, author,
philosopher and drug liberty activist,
dies.
1996
United States President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton IV signs Defense
of Marriage Act prohibiting federal recognition of same gender marriage.
1995
Aug 9 1995
Jerome John (Jerry) Garcia, musician
and composer with Grateful Dead, dies.
Jan 7 1995
Murray Newton Rothbard, libertarian
philosopher and author, dies.
1994
Sept 17 1994
Karl Raimund Popper, science
philosopher, dies.
Apr 22 1994
Karl Hess,
anarchist libertarian
philosopher and speechwriter,
dies.
1993
Dec 4 1993
Frank Vincent Zappa, musician, speech
liberty activist, censorship critic and Cultural Liaison Officer to Czech
Republic, dies.
Aug 8 1993
Sharpshooters from Kentucky State Police Special Response Team kill
Gary Shepherd and wound his wife
in his front yard in Broadhead, Kentucky after Shepherd refused police requests
to enter his home and after false reports that Shepherd was firing a rifle
at helicopters and holding his wife and child hostage. Shepherd, a disabled
veteran, was allegedly growing cannabis for his own medicinal use.
hr95.org/Memorial.html#shepherd,
mir.drugtext.org/drcnet/guide2-95/gary.html
July 8 1993
Henry Hazlitt, Austrian school economist
and libertarian philosopher, dies.
May 5 1993
Hawaii Supreme Court, in Baehr v Lewin, rules prohibition of same
gender marriage unconstitutional.
Apr 19 1993
US Attorney General Janet Reno and
US Federal Bureau of
Investigation decide to end the standoff at the Davidian's Mount Carmel
compound near Waco, Texas. Tanks smash through walls and sprays CS gas inside
the compound. FBI agents fire "ferret" canisters using grenade launchers
through all windows. Fire and smoke kills 76 including 27 children. 20 of
the dead also have gunshot wounds. 7 who survive the fire are arrested.
also see Waco Siege
Jan 1993
US President George Herbert Walker
Bush pardons Aslam Adam, a Pakistani convicted in 1985 of smuggling $1
million worth of heroin from Pakistan.
1992
Dec 24 1992
US President George Herbert Walker Bush
Sr pardons Elliot L Abrams,
Duane Ramsdell Clarridge,
Alan D Friers, Jr,
Clair E George,
Robert Carl McFarlane and
Caspar Willard Weinberger, all
whom had been implicated in the
Iran-Contra cocaine for arms for
hostages conspiracy.
Oct 2 1992
Police kill Donald Scott in his home
in Malibu, California after invading his home with two forfeiture specialists
with orders to seize his $5 million ranch if cannabis plants are found. No
plants, drugs or paraphrenalia were found. Scott was opposed to all drug
use.
Aug 25 1992
San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors declare Aug 25 1992 "Brownie
Mary Day" honoring medicinal cannabis liberty activist
Mary Jane Rathbun.
Aug 30 1992
Avoiding a planned US
Federal Bureau of
Investigation assault, James (Bo) Gritz
convinces Randall Claude Weaver
to surrender, ending the Ruby Ridge
Idaho standoff.
Aug 22 1992
US Federal Bureau of
Investigation sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots off the head of
Randall Claude Weaver's wife Vicki
at Weavers' property in Ruby Ridge,
Idaho.
Aug 21 1992
Randall Claude Weaver's son Sammy
and US Marshall William Degan shot dead after firefight at Weavers' property
in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
July 10 1992
Manuel Antonio Noriega is sentenced
to a 40 year prison term without parole after jury convicts him of 8 counts
of drug smuggling, conspiracy and racketeering.
May 22 1992
Roy A Childs Jr,
anarchist
libertarian and author, dies.
Mar 23 1992
Friedrich A von Hayek, Austrian
school economist, classical
liberal
philosopher and author, dies in
Freiburg, Germany.
hayekcenter.org/friedrichhayek/hayek_gravestone.html
Mar 1992
Secretary of the
United
States Department of Health and Human Services Louis Wade Sullivan terminates
Investigational New Drug Compassionate
Access Program that provides medicinal cannabis to individual patients,
except to those 15 patients who were receiving cannabis at the time.
1991
Dec 1 1991
George Joseph Stigler,
University of Chicago free
market economist, dies.
June 23 1991
Public Health Service Chief James O Mason suspends the fourteen year-old
Investigational New Drug Compassionate
Access Program that provides medicinal cannabis to individual patients.
Aug 17 1991
500 attend first annual
Seattle
Hempfest, originally billed as Washington Hemp Expo, held at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Washington.
Feb 24 1991
United States military and its allies start their ground attack to eject
the Iraqi military from Kuwait.
Jan 17 1991
United States military and its allies start bombing Iraq.
1990
Sept 27 1990
European Court of Human Rights decides transgenders do not have the right
to change the gender listed on their birth certificates nor the right to
marry.
Aug 2 1990
Iraq military attacks and occupies Kuwait.
July 21 1990
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters,
The Band, The Hooters, Van Morrison,
Sinead O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper,
Marianne Faithfull, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Paul Carrack, Thomas Dolby
and Bryan Adams perform Pink Floyd's The Wall at Rogers' own expense,
held at Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-man's land" of the Berlin
Wall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Concert_in_Berlin
July 11 1990
Hong Kong repeals its sodomy laws.
June 24 1990
200,000 attend Gay Pride parade in New York City, New York.
June 24 1990
Nevil Schoenmakers, owner of
Seed Bank in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is arrested at the request of US Government
by Australian police while visiting his family in Perth.
Apr 22 1990
Tax Freedom Day, the day each
year after which Americans' earnings are their own.
Jan 3 1990
Panamanian President Manuel Antonio
Noriega surrenders to the
US Drug
Enforcement Administration at a Catholic nunnery in Papal Nuncio, Panama.
