Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets ( 1973 ), Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Raging Bull ( 1980 ), and Goodfellas ( 1990 ) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.

Many of SOM's post-war designs have become icons of American modern architecture, including the Manhattan House ( 1950 ), designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; and the Lever House ( 1952 ), also in New York City ; as well as the Air Force Academy Chapel ( 1958 ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; and the John Hancock Center ( 1969 ) and Sears Tower ( 1973 ), both in Chicago.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

Norma Leah McCorvey ( née Nelson ; September 22, 1947 ), better known by the legal pseudonym " Jane Roe ", was the plaintiff in the landmark American lawsuit Roe v. Wade in 1973.

The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called " as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown ’ s Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ) and Lisa Alther ’ s Kinflicks ( 1976 ) were to an earlier one.

The minicomputer Xerox Alto ( 1973 ) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers, because of its graphical user interface, bit-mapped high resolution screen, large internal and external memory storage, mouse, and special software.

On November 20, 2009, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed at the arena, recreating the entirety of their landmark album Born to Run ; it was their first tour stop in Baltimore since 1973.

A Rhyl landmark was the Pavilion Theatre, an ornate building with five domes, which was demolished in 1973 and the adjacent pier which was finally removed in 1972.

The Wintergarden Cinema was a landmark building which housed the Sydney Film Festival from 1968 to 1973, but which was demolished to make way for exclusive apartments in the late 1980s.

The case worked its way through the appellate process, culminating in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which made abortion legal in the United States.

* Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a landmark U. S. federal court case that in April 1973 invalidated the 1964 patent for the ENIAC

Growing scientific recognition of the role of private lands for endangered species recovery and the landmark 1981 court decision in Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources both contributed to making Habitat Conservation Plans / Incidental Take Permits " a major force for wildlife conservation and a major headache to the development community ", wrote Robert D. Thornton in the 1991 Environmental Law article, Searching for Consensus and Predictability: Habitat Conservation Planning under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

The abolition of the zamindari system ( which divided the society into lords, owners of property, and commoners, users of property ) in Bangladesh after independence from Pakistan was a major landmark that took place immediately effective Jan 10th 1972 under a Presidential Ordinance, which became permanent under its new constitution April 10, 1973. In Bangladesh most Zamindars were given titles such as Chowdhury, Sharkar and Khan

His movement ( then, the National Salvation Party ) scored a landmark 15 % here in 1973 a few years after its modest beginning, and his score went on to gradually increase.

In late September 1973, White was recruited by record producer Huey Meaux to sit in on the legendary Memphis sessions that became Jerry Lee Lewis's landmark Southern Roots album.

Johnson, whom Schieffer admired greatly for passing the landmark civil rights bills of ' 64, ' 65 and ' 68 had died in January 1973.

The Kansas City preventive patrol experiment was a landmark experiment carried out between 1972 and 1973 by the Kansas city police department of Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1973 the landmark Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California which re-enabled local obscenity prosecutions after a long hiatus sounded the death knell for much of the remaining underground press ( including underground comix ), largely by making the local head shops which stocked underground papers and comix in communities around the country more vulnerable to prosecution.

The landmark 1973 U. S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade served as Schaeffer's iconic portrait of the radical cheapening of human life which he predicted must accompany this cultural shift, producing a culture increasingly bent on self-destruction.

Acha Mountain Fortress was designated as a historic landmark in 1973, and has since become a common local tourist destination.

Situated by the last well before entering the Grand Erg du Bilma on the way to Fachi, salt caravans relied on the tree as a landmark until it was allegedly knocked down by a truck driver in 1973.

He studies several landmark cases that have been handed down from the Court, such as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ) and Roe v. Wade ( 1973 ), and asserts that in each examined situation, the Court was largely unable to attain any tangible, empirically-measurable change.

The control of flux ( Kacser & Burns, 1973 ) was a landmark paper for both Kacser and Jim Burns describing how the rates of metabolic pathways were affected by changes in the amounts or activities of pathway enzymes ( See Metabolic Control Analysis ).

Another Dunston landmark is the Derwent Tower, commonly known as the " Dunston Rocket ", a tower block that was once the highest in Gateshead, and was designed by the Owen Luder Partnership and completed in 1973.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The United States Congress has passed a number of landmark environmental regulatory regimes, but many other federal laws are equally important, if less comprehensive.

" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

In the landmark case of Frendak v. United States, the court ruled that the insanity defense cannot be imposed upon an unwilling defendant if an intelligent defendant voluntarily wishes to forego the defense.

* 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M. D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

In 1823, he announced the United States ' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy.

Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States.

Marbury v. Madison,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

It took the combined effort and interest of conservationists, politicians and especially businesses — namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through Montana would greatly benefit by the creation of this new tourist attraction — to ensure the passage of that landmark enabling legislation by the United States Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

The Elizabeth Tower, in particular, which is often referred to by the name of its main bell, " Big Ben ", is an iconic landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city and an emblem of parliamentary democracy.

This complex occupies the site of the former Haus Vaterland, and its principal building, which for a few years was the headquarters of the large German trade union ver. di ( Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, meaning United Services Union ), rises to 45 metres and has a curving glass facade designed to evoke the shape of that erstwhile landmark.

In 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a landmark resolution initiated by South Africa supporting LBGT rights ( See Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at the United Nations )

In 1974, the United States Supreme Court issued the landmark decision, Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U. S. 470, 94 S. Ct.

In the landmark decision Nixon v. General Services Administration former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist declared in his dissent the need to " fully describe the preeminent position that the President of the United States occupies with respect to our Republic.

Although the United States and Vietnam reached a landmark bilateral agreement in December 2001, which helped increase Vietnam ’ s exports to the United States, disagreements over textile and catfish exports are hindering full implementation of the agreement.