1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
1997 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
1997 William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51
1997 Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
1992 New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1991 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1989 Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
1988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
1988 Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1986 Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for U.S.S.R.
1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
1981 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone
1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine
1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1971 Charles Manson convicted of murder
1971 Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1970 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy
1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident)
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1949 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C.
1936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster
1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM, 1972-74, convicted of bribe-taking
1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
1895 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (New York City) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1833 Samuel A. Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35
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