On this day in 1957, in Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment.
On this day in 1989, Jiang Zemin succeeded Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
On this day in 2004, in New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
On this day in 2013, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.