1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1994 Lina Basquette, actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87
1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime
1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights
1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies
1984 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
1974 Harry Baum, actor (Crime and Punishment), dies at 58
1972 John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79
1968 John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
1964 Victoria Sellers, born in London, England, actress, Crime Zone, Warlords
1962 Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1961 "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1953 "Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS
1952 Maria Schneider, born in Paris, actress, Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates
1947 Bill Smitrovich, actor, Crime Story, Miami Vice
1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1943 Andre Techine, director and writer, Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous
1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63
1919 Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion
1917 Jan Miner, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Crime Photographer
1914 Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw
1908 Inez Courtney, born in New York City, actress, 13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven
1907 Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer
1896 Herbert R O'Connor, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sen-Md, /TV narrator, Crime Syndicate
1894 Cliff Hall, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Crime Photographer
1884 Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1881 Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59
1876 Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist, Race and Crime
1853 Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1834 1st U.S. interstate crime compact (New York - New Jersey) ratified
1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment
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