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2012 Event - A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act

2012 Event - Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province, for inciting 8 self-immolation protests against Chinese rule

2012 Event - Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt

2012 Event - Mali swears in Dioncounda Traore, an interim president, marking the country's transition back to civilian rule following last month's coup

2012 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council admits it faces a national crisis amidst and escalation of violence and militia rule

2011 Event - Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'

2011 Event - Voters in Uganda participate in the Ugandan general election; voters fear the election is rigged to extend the 30-year rule of rebel Yoweri Museveni

1996 Event - Curaeao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)

1994 Death - Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70

1993 Event - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville

1992 Event - Slovak parliament asks for self rule

1991 Event - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule

1989 Event - After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu

1989 Event - Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended

1989 Event - U.S. Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York City Board of Estimate

1986 Event - NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)

1986 Event - NFL adopts instant replay rule

1984 Event - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials

1984 Event - NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule

1983 Event - NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule

1979 Event - Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

1978 Event - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule

1976 Event - Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule

1976 Birthday - Ja Rule, born in New York City, New York, born Jeffrey Atkins, rapper, singer, actor, sold over 35 million albums worldwide, hit single, 'Livin' It Up'

1975 Event - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule

1975 Event - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate

1974 Event - Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster

1974 Event - Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule

1973 Event - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule

1973 Event - Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)

1973 Event - American League adopts designated hitter rule

1972 Event - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland

1971 Event - Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule

1970 Event - International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule

1966 Event - Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf

1962 Event - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule

1962 Event - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule

1961 Event - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time

1961 Event - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule

1957 Event - NBA modifies the free-throw rule

1954 Event - Algeria begins rebellion against French rule

1954 Event - NBA adopts 24-second shot clock and 6 team-foul rule

1954 Event - Miltary rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested

1953 Event - New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk

1953 Event - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly

1952 Event - Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

1951 Event - AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games

1951 Event - Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest

1950 Event - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule

1950 Event - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule

1950 Event - NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense and defense)

1946 Event - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1945 Event - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule

1943 Event - NFL adopts free substitution rule

1935 Birthday - Ann Rule, American Writer

1934 Event - NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season

1933 Event - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yards in, posts on goal line)

1931 Birthday - Janice Rule, born in Norwood, Ohio, actress, Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife

1931 Birthday - Jane Rule, Canadian Author

1930 Event - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book

1930 Event - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a home run, now a double

1928 Birthday - Margaret Rule, consultant, Mary Rose Trust

1923 Birthday - Ladislav Fuks, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, received doctorate at Charles University in Prague

1921 Death - Joel Asaph Allen, U.S. zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83

1920 Event - King George V signs Home Rule Act

1920 Event - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law

1919 Event - Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)

1914 Event - Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent

1914 Event - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster

1914 Event - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule

1913 Event - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

1912 Event - U.S. Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion

1906 Event - New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls

1896 Death - Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies

1891 Death - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45

1879 Event - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1877 Death - Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75

1861 Event - Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland

1846 Birthday - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member

1845 Event - 1st baseball team, New York Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code

1838 Birthday - Joel Asaph Allen, U.S. zoologist, Rule of Allen

1824 Birthday - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book

1815 Event - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1810 Event - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event

1801 Birthday - Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot

1783 Birthday - Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule

1779 Birthday - Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor, slide rule, pocket chessboard

1778 Death - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67

1765 Event - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)

1761 Death - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50

1710 Birthday - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia

1700 Birthday - James Thomson, songwriter, Rule Britannia

1694 Death - Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32

1657 Birthday - Imre Thokoly, Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule

1647 Event - People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples

1640 Event - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1574 Birthday - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule

1554 Death - Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule

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