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1996 Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria

1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament

1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany

1951 Nicu Ceausescu, born in Romania, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds

1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft

1912 Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper

1901 Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner'

1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

1892 Martin Niemoller, clergyman, German Protestant, ; imprisoned by Hitler

1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France

1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned

1777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1756 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die

1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland

1549 Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned

1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned and expelled

1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim

1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining


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