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2013 Event - After stripping Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France Titles, the IOC takes away the cyclist's bronze medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics; he was found guilty of doping

2013 Event - After pleading guilty to a U.S. case of tax evasion, Wegelin and Co., the oldest bank in Switzerland, closes; the bank faces a fine of $57.8 million

2011 Event - Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris

2011 Event - Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson

2011 Event - The 'underwear bomber', Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airplane on Christmas, 2009

2010 Event - Longtime U.S. Democratic Representative Charlie Rangel is found guilty of multiple violations of House rules, including failure to pay taxes

1998 Event - Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge

1997 Event - Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing

1997 Event - Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served

1997 Event - Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty

1997 Event - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby

1997 Event - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian

1997 Event - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City

1997 Event - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168

1997 Event - Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract

1997 Event - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

1997 Event - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

1996 Event - O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict

1996 Event - Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

1995 Event - Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women

1995 Event - O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

1995 Event - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

1995 Event - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina

1995 Event - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY

1994 Event - Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges

1994 Event - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring

1994 Event - O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder

1994 Event - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York

1994 Event - Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying

1994 Event - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion

1994 Event - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home

1994 Event - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1993 Event - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges

1993 Event - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights

1993 Event - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th

1992 Death - Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer

1992 Event - U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes

1992 Event - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos

1992 Event - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys

1992 Event - U.S. serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane

1991 Event - Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty

1991 Event - Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession

1991 Event - Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 Event - Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty

1990 Event - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

1990 Event - 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money

1990 Event - Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

1990 Event - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies

1990 Event - Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income

1990 Event - John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

1990 Event - 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering

1989 Event - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud

1989 Event - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl

1989 Event - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Event - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Death - Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul and David, Medeleine), dies at 79

1989 Event - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter

1988 Event - U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

1986 Event - Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court

1985 Event - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing

1983 Death - Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70

1982 Event - Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

1982 Event - John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity

1982 Event - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon

1980 Event - NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty

1980 Event - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

1980 Event - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago

1979 Event - Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months

1978 Event - Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst

1978 Event - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

1977 Event - David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings

1976 Event - U.S. courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism for 'He's So Fine'

1976 Event - George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"

1975 Event - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

1975 Event - Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination

1973 Event - ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election

1973 Event - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts

1973 Event - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1971 Event - 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre

1970 Event - Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior

1970 Event - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

1969 Event - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne

1969 Event - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968 Death - Virginia Valli, actress (Flames, Guilty?, Storm), dies of stroke at 70

1966 Event - Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty

1965 Event - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion

1964 Event - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later

1961 Event - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1961 Event - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1950 Event - Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud

1950 Event - NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

1946 Event - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1935 Event - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant

1930 Birthday - Iain Cuthbertson, British actor, Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB

1925 Event - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs

1925 Event - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism

1924 Event - Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder

1921 Event - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox

1865 Event - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty

1856 Event - Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

1788 Event - Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France

1776 Event - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy

1675 Event - Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft













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