2015 Event The Cairo Criminal Court convicts Egyptian ex-President Mohammed Morsi for his role in illegal detentions and violent responses to protests against him three years ago; he and other Muslim Brotherhood defendants will serve a 20-year prison term 1986 Event San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage 1981 Event Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy 1977 Event Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges 1971 Event 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison 1962 Event 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz 1959 Event De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts 1950 Event Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death 1949 Event U.N. Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia 1948 Event Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration 1948 Event The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 1946 Event Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels 1946 Event U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1945 Event Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death 1926 Event Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy 1665 Event Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme 1600 Event Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1519 Event University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther 1307 Event French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy 1021 Event Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
