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2006 Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague
1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft. Lauderdale Fla 1997 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing 1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby 1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian 1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City 1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 1997 O.J. Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson 1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents 1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women 1995 O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman 1995 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina 1995 Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69 1995 Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg 1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY 1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) 1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York 1994 Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides 1994 Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing" 1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home 1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis 1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina 1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1992 Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69 1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys 1991 Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty 1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records 1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida 1990 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money 1990 Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering 1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal 1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake 1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia 1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg found 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq 1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant 1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts 1986 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt 1985 Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing 1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library 1983 Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74 1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland 1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance 1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria 1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found 1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found 1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord" 1976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars 1974 Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) 1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London 1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy 1972 Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy) 1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 1971 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1971 U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 1971 Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior 1970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot 1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22 1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty 1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel 1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel 1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea 1959 Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder 1953 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening 1951 New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1950 Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 1950 Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud 1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece 1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found 1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1940 Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' 1939 Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College 1938 Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant 1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines 1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey 1932 Lindbergh baby, found dead 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder 1919 American Meteorological Society found 1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea 1914 Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France 1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) 1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt 1912 Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica 1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK 1910 Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland 1909 Bird banding society found 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France 1906 Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. 1905 World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa 1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe 1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 1902 Gustav von Koenigswald, paleontologist, found Pithecanthropus erectus 1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 1900 American Hall of Fame found 1899 Robert Welch, found John Birch Society 1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente, Netherlands 1896 D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura 1896 Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala 1888 Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper 1879 Thomas Beecham, born in England, composer, found London Philharmonic 1878 Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) 1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp, 1925 1873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist, found King Tutankhamen's tomb 1872 U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty 1859 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union 1857 Jose Celso Barbosa, born in Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning 1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra 1851 Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic 1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) 1845 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr, found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal 1844 A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business, Montgomery Ward 1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D. T. Suzuki, found the awakening 1841 Henry Stanley, England, journalist/explorer, found Livingston in Africa 1839 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies 1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, monk, mathematician and discoverer, found 1st asteroid, dies at 80 1824 Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc 1813 Zachariah Chandler, U.S., merchant/politician, found Republican Party 1813 David Livingstone, born in Scotland, explorer, found by Stanley in Africa 1811 John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists 1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1806 Chapin Aaron Harris, U.S., found America Society of Dental Surgeons 1805 Great Stoneface Mount found in New Hampshire 1788 Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France 1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy 1773 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago 1748 Ruins of Pompeii found 1740 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society 1729 Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil 1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found 1711 Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, found U.S. Lutheran church 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft 1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening 1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, found boiling pt temp 1519 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer, found St. Augustine Florida 1503 Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1460 Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida 1306 Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies 1240 Raymundus Nonnatus, found Mercedariers (protect pregnant women), dies |
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