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Charges
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
First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
1998
President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
1997
New York Yankee Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
1997
Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1997
Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
1994
Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
1994
Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994
New York Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
1994
O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up
1994
Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1993
Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges
1992
Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992
Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges
1991
Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991
New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1990
3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
1988
Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve New York City assault charges
1988
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1988
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
1987
New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1986
U.S.S.R. releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1986
U.S.S.R. charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1986
Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1985
Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1984
L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984
Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1982
Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1981
Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1980
John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
1980
John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges
1979
Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage
1978
Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1977
Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1977
Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977
Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
1975
Linda McCartney drug charges in U.S. are dropped
1975
Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1972
Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
1971
Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome
1971
Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1970
Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1968
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1967
Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1960
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US
1954
U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1952
Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism
1950
Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists
1950
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1941
Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II
1932
New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1927
Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1921
Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
1920
Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1920
A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1919
NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
1894
French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1893
1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1871
Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1869
Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1868
U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1807
Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1278
Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
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