LAW
On May 20 1899, a New York cab driver became the 1st person arrested for breaking this law
speeding
This comedy duo's split-up was big news in 1956
Martin & Lewis
Delano
Franklin Roosevelt
For American Catholics it was Friday, November 18, 1966
the last meatless Friday
Since she usually winds down the day with a Scotch, J & B gave this p.m. their billionth bottle
(Margaret) Thatcher
When accused of doing this, famed attorney Melvin Belli replied, "I get there before the ambulance"
ambulance chasing
It's said the Beat Generation began in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights" bookshop in this city
San Francisco
Earl
Jimmy Carter
Elizabeth Taylor's last husband
Senator John Warner
The badge of this family is the bell-heather, not the Big Mac
MacDonalds
3-word Latin term for a law that's passed & then enforced retroactively
ex post facto
It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Calvin
John Calvin Coolidge
To date, Britain's last king
George VI
In 1839, Englishmen put almost 200 tons of it up their noses
snuff
Only state whose civil laws are not based mainly on English common law but on the "code Napoleon"
Louisiana
In 1959, this int'l figure appeared on CBS' "Person to Person" in pajamas rather than fatigues
(Fidel) Castro
Alan
Chester Alan Arthur
It was the last completed film for both Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
The Misfits
With the Scotch thistle & English rose this symbol of the trinity is part of British coat of arms
shamrock
Anti-segregation lawyer in 1954 landmark case, in 1967, he became 1st black Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Ezra Taft Benson, now prophet & pres. of the Mormon church, held this cabinet post in the '50s
Secretary of Agriculture
Of our 1st 8 presidents, the only 1 to have a middle name
John Quincy Adams
Martha, who died of old age in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914, was the last of these birds
passenger pigeons
On January 1, 1788 the Daily Universal Register assumed this new name
London Times