Effect of US government surveillance programs on privacy rights [ACLU] News
Effect of US government surveillance programs on privacy rights [ACLU]

Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society, American Civil Liberties Union, January 15, 2003 [concluding that US government surveillance programs and technologies pose a fundamental threat to individual liberty and privacy rights]. Read the full text of the report here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Supreme Court said busing could be used to achieve racial integration

On April 20, 1971, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that busing of school students could be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

League of Nations dissolved

On April 20, 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the close of its final session. Thirty-four countries had attended the final meeting at which they elected to dismantle the organization and bequeath its assets to the United Nations.

Read a history of League of Nations from the UN.

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