American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.

Born

1936

March 11

Died

2016

Era

1930s

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Antonin, in brief

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2016 Died

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843 Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1387 Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.

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The world in 1936

When Antonin arrived

april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Anton Yelchin 1989–2016 American actor (born 1989) Benjamin Tupper 1738–1792 American general and surveyor (born 1738) Carl Ruggles 1876–1971 American composer and painter (died 1971) Gary Barnett 1963– English footballer and manager Henry Cowell 1897– American pianist and composer (died 1965) Margaret Oakley Dayhoff 1925–1983 American chemist and academic (born 1925) Peter Berg 1964– American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Qasem Soleimani 1957–2020 Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (born 1957) Raoul Walsh 1887–1980 American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1887)

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Also born in 1936

Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Anthony Payne 1936–2021 English composer (born 1936) B. J. Habibie 1936–2019 Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Brian Blessed 1936– English actor Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003) Carl Icahn 1936– American businessman and investor

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