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2012 Event - The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation 1999 Death - Elliot Richardson, honest U.S. attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79 1996 Death - Melvin Mouron Belli, attorney/actor (Star Trek), dies at 88 1995 Event - Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease 1995 Death - William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78 1995 Death - Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/secretary-general (SACR), dies at 68 1994 Death - Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80 1994 Event - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30) 1993 Death - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72 1993 Event - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General 1991 Event - John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney 1990 Death - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer 1989 Death - Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37 1989 Event - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 1988 Event - Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General 1988 Event - Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. 1985 Event - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested 1985 Death - Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney) 1985 Event - Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General 1985 Event - U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general 1983 Event - Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" 1983 Death - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/president of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80 1982 Death - Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered 1977 Death - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75 1976 Death - Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57 1975 Death - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71 1974 Event - Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi 1973 Event - President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate 1973 Event - Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned 1964 Event - U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns 1963 Birthday - Mark Pryor, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, voted to confirm Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General 1962 Event - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts 1962 Birthday - Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess, NBC, Inside Edition 1959 Death - Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66 1957 Birthday - Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, John F. Kennedy and Jackie's daughter 1954 Birthday - Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader, UDF 1954 Birthday - Robert F Kennedy, Jr., attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council 1950 Birthday - Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader, UDF 1949 Birthday - Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist 1945 Birthday - Domonic Barber, attorney, Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco 1945 Birthday - Alton Maddox, New York black activist/attorney, Tawana Brawley case 1944 Death - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp 1942 Birthday - William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general 1941 Birthday - Gloria Allred, feminist attorney 1938 Birthday - Alan Dershowitz, born in New York City, attorney, Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson 1938 Birthday - Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, 1993- 1938 Death - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80 1937 Birthday - Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer, Reebok, Adidas 1937 Birthday - Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, South Africa attorney/CP parliament leader 1936 Birthday - Johnnie Cochran, attorney, O. J. Simpson defense attorney 1936 Birthday - Floyd Abrams, born in America, attorney, constitutional law expert, argued for famous cases, including the New York Times in the Judith Miller in CIA leak grand jury investigation 1934 Birthday - Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author, Helter-Skelter 1934 Birthday - Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader 1933 Birthday - F Lee Bailey, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, attorney, Sam Shepard case, OJ case 1932 Birthday - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-93 1931 Birthday - Edwin Meese III, prude, U.S. attorney General, 1985-88 1929 Birthday - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba 1928 Birthday - Marvin Mitchelson, attorney 1927 Birthday - Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney General, 1967-69 1923 Birthday - Charles Keating, district attorney, Los Angeles, California 1923 Birthday - Richard Kleindienst, attorney general, 1972 1923 Event - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1920 Birthday - Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP 1920 Birthday - Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973 1920 Birthday - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP, Volksunie 1919 Birthday - William Kunstler, American Activist,defense attorney, Chicago 8 1919 Birthday - Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell 1918 Birthday - Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell 1918 Event - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California 1918 Birthday - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er 1918 Birthday - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber, KVP/CDA 1917 Birthday - William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85 1915 Birthday - Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense, 1958-.. 1913 Birthday - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail 1910 Event - William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. 1908 Birthday - Helen Twelvetrees, actress, State's Attorney, Painted Desert 1903 Birthday - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7 1902 Birthday - Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president, 1946-52 1901 Birthday - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician 1901 Death - Ignatius Donnelly, U.S. attorney/lieutenant governor of Minnesota, dies at 69 1899 Birthday - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY 1899 Death - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedian, dies at 64 1898 Death - Edward Noyes Westcott, U.S. attorney/writer (David Harum), dies 1895 Birthday - Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan, 1947-51 1894 Birthday - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization 1888 Birthday - Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney 1882 Death - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 1877 Death - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies 1868 Death - Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney and Confederate general-major, shot at 40 1865 Death - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1864 Death - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 1864 Death - James Barbour Terrill, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 26 1864 Birthday - Thomas Dixon, U.S. attorney/playwright, Flaming Sword 1863 Death - Benjamin Hardin Helm, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 33 1863 Death - James Johnston Pettigrew, U.S. attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 1863 Death - Isham W. Garrott, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1863 Death - James Cooper, U.S. attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52 1862 Death - James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1861 Death - Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50 1860 Birthday - Charles Gordon Curtis, U.S. attorney/inventor, Curtis Turbine 1857 Birthday - Clarence Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial 1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82 1838 Birthday - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier, 1881 - 1882 1834 Birthday - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer 1833 Birthday - Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois 1832 Death - Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies 1830 Birthday - Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney, 1st lady to argue in Supreme Court 1820 Birthday - George Davis, Attorney General Confederacy 1820 Death - William Ellery, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 92 1818 Birthday - John Henninger Reagan, Attorney General, Confederacy 1817 Death - Thomas McKean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 1813 Birthday - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier, 1852-59 1812 Birthday - James Speed, Attorney General Union 1810 Birthday - Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy 1809 Birthday - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance 1806 Death - James Smith, Irish / U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 87 1806 Death - George Wythe, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79 1803 Death - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 1802 Birthday - Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP 1800 Death - Edward Rutledge, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50 1793 Birthday - Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union 1793 Death - Thomas Mckean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 72 1792 Birthday - Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice, liberal 1790 Death - William Hooper, U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 48 1789 Event - U.S. Attorney General Office is created 1788 Death - John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 1787 Death - Thomas Stone, U.S. attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44 1785 Death - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39 1781 Death - Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50 1763 Birthday - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher 1749 Birthday - Edward Rutledge, Gov-SC, attorney/signer Declaration of Independence 1746 Birthday - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs 1746 Birthday - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon 1742 Birthday - William Hooper, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence 1741 Birthday - John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence 1741 Death - Peter Burmannus, Peter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72 1730 Birthday - Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence 1727 Birthday - William Ellery, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence 1668 Birthday - Peter Burmannus, Pieter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist 1588 Birthday - John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Mass 1483 Birthday - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney and president of Romagna |
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