New York same-sex marriage bill [NY State Assembly] News
New York same-sex marriage bill [NY State Assembly]

An act to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to the ability to marry, New York State Assembly, passed May 12, 2009, [allowing same sex marriages to be performed within the state of New York]. Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.