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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, Representative-D-New York, 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 president, 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 Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges 1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, 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 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 1920 Leona Helmsley, born in New York, billionaire hotel operator, real estate investor, convicted of tax evasion 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 Captain 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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