1997 Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1993 Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
1993 Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
1992 Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70
1991 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
1990 Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1988 Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51
1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
1987 West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
1984 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
1983 Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1982 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
1980 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder
1976 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1976 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to
1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1970 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1967 Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1953 Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest
1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1945 British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman
1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1937 Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside
1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
1929 Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders
1920 Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers and arrest 24 fans for gambling
1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1914 Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy
1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1796 French government arrest 10 utopists
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts)
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
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