American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1891)

Earl Warren

Earl Warren was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953, and as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, which has been recognized by many as a "constitutional revolution" in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Miranda v.

Born

1891

March 19

Died

1974

Era

1890s

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Earl, in brief

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1974 Died

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1205 Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.
1227 Election of Ugolino di Conti as Pope Gregory IX following the death of Pope Honorius III.
1277 The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.

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The world in 1974

When Earl departed

april 1 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
april 22 Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
april 25 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.
april 27 One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 19

Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906) Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Held 1872– Polish singer (died 1918) David Livingstone 1813–1873 Scottish missionary and explorer (died 1873) Edith Nourse Rogers 1881– American social worker and politician (died 1960) Jean Astruc 1684–1766 French physician and scholar (died 1766) Josef Albers 1888–1976 German-American painter and educator (died 1976) Patrick McGoohan 1928–2009 Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928) Thomas McKean 1734–1817 American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1734)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1891

Emiliano Mercado del Toro 1891–2007 Puerto Rican-American soldier (died 2007) Fumimaro Konoe 1891–1945 Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1891) Harold Alexander 1891–1969 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (died 1969) Henry Bachtold 1891–1983 Australian soldier and railway engineer (died 1983) Henry Miller 1891–1980 American author and painter (died 1980) Max Ernst 1891–1976 German painter and sculptor (born 1891) Nelly Sachs 1891–1970 German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970) Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953 Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1953) Stanley Spencer 1891– English painter (died 1959)

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