On Sunday, July 20, 1990, Justice William Brennan resigned from the United States Supreme Court. This event is noted as a key moment in the history of the Court. The resignation was highlighted in a post titled "Today in Supreme Court History: July 20, 1990" published by Reason.com, a libertarian-leaning news outlet.

This resignation marked the end of Brennan's influential tenure on the Court, a fact commemorated in historical retrospectives of the Supreme Court.

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