2015 Event Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigns five days after his re-election to a fifth term; several FIFA officials were recently arrested in a corruption scandal, but Blatter has not been charged 2014 Event Former Egyptian President President Mohamed Mursi and nine others have been charged with giving confidential state security information to the government of Qatar; if convicted of treason, Mursi could face the death penalty 2014 Event Former Press Secretary James S. Brady dies at age 73; Brady's death has been ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound made 33 years earlier by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; Hinckley was found to be insane and was not charged with the original crime 2014 Event Two Americans, Jeffrey Edward Fowle and Matthew Todd Miller, are to be charged in North Korea with unspecified crimes; Fowle is accused of leaving a Bible in his hotel room, and Miller allegedly asked for asylum after destroying his visa 2013 Event U.S. accountant Paul Konigsberg is charged for complicity in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme that fell apart in 2008 2013 Event Investigators on the case of the October 2012 Kunsthal gallery theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, discover paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son has been charged with the crime 2013 Event Charged with bribing public officials in Argentina between 2005 and 2009, clothing retailer Ralph Lauren agrees to pay $1.6 million to resolve U.S. regulatory and criminal claims 2013 Event Former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, is arrested and charged with unlawfully detaining judges in 2007 2012 Event Voters in Alexandria, Egypt clash during the evening of the second voting session on the highly charged constitutional referendum 2012 Event Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted 2012 Event Three widows and two daughters of Osama bin Laden were charged with illegally living in Pakistan; they were sentenced with 45 days in jail and fined $114 each 2012 Event Ahead of court martial, suspect U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged with turning over a massive cache of classified documents to Wikileaks 2011 Event In Cambodia, the three most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity 2010 Event Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years 2010 Event Twenty-three Shia Muslim activists are charged with terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government of Bahrain 2010 Event Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009 1997 Event Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom 1996 Event Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder 1995 Event Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier 1994 Event Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI 1994 Event Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting 1994 Event O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing 1994 Event Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show 1994 Event Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan 1993 Event WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution 1993 Event Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault 1993 Event Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Event Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife 1991 Event Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary 1991 Event 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 1990 Event Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida 1989 Event Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1989 Event Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate 1987 Event U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R. 1986 Event Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana 1984 Event Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage 1979 Event Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion 1978 Event Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen 1976 Event Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup 1975 Event Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana 1969 Event Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial 1969 Event Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault 1961 Birthday Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007 1959 Event Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement 1957 Event FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R. 1955 Birthday Diamanda Galas, born America, composer, musician, politically charged performance artist, keyboardist, singer, has a voice range of three and a half octaves 1945 Event William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason 1941 Birthday Jeremiah Wright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pastor Emeritus, former Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, 8,500 member megachurch, former pastor of President Obama, known for politically charged, controversial sermons 1858 Event Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18) 1735 Event Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) 1535 Event Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1529 Event 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
