Miriam Lee, a Chinese acupuncturist, is arrested for practicing out of her home in California.
Date: 1974
Acupuncture is illegal, so Lee works in a factory during the day and provides treatments at night and on weekends.
At her trial, her patients fill the courtroom in protest: "claiming their right to the only medicine that had truly helped them" (Abacus Chinese Medicine).
Within a few days of the trial and the publicity it attracts, acupuncture is authorized as an "experimental procedure" in California.
In 1976, it will finally be made fully legal.