2006 17 Islamic men are arrested in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto
1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
1997 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1997 US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
1995 FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
1994 Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder
1993 Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 David Lee Roth arrested in New York City for purchasing marijuana for
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1993 Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo
1993 Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession
1992 Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession
1992 New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1991 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles
1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1991 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1990 Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
1990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
1990 Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
1988 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1986 South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
1986 South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1986 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1985 South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1985 U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker arrested for spying for U.S.S.R.
1984 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1984 Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis
1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City
1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1981 South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1980 John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1980 Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
1979 LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1977 Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 Indira Gandhi arrested
1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
1976 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1976 Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup
1976 "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1972 Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1970 Angela Davis arrested in New York City
1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness
1969 Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1968 Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
1967 Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested)
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested
1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1966 Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1961 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
1961 Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1957 Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1954 Miltary rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
1953 GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1949 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945 Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason
1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1943 J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
1943 Dietrich Bonhoffer arrested by nazis
1943 Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
1941 Czech premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis
1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
1940 Cleveringa arrested by nazis
1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1940 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands
1937 Rev Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1925 Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, arrested on obsenity
1925 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1925 John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power
1923 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1920 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1914 Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico
1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested
1904 Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City
1901 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York
1898 China's empress-mother Ci Xi and emperor De Zong arrested
1894 Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1876 Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston
1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
1807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1794 Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1785 French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted
1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
1688 King James II arrested
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1677 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower
1661 French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested
1656 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1603 Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
1581 English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1569 Duke of Norfolk arrested
1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1553 English Hugh Latimer arrested
1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1523 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
155 Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake
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