1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1995 Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
1994 PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced
1994 Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail
1994 Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days
1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland
1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 Patty Hearst let out of jail
1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1972 Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail
1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1970 U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
1970 U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1966 Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1962 Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
1956 Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail
1953 France closes jail on Devil Island
1947 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia
1946 Jim Varney, born in Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Ernest Goes to Jail, /"Hey Vern"
1946 NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail
1944 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1936 Neville E Alexander, South african, 10 years in Robbeneiland Jail
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1933 John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail
1930 Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1928 Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1928 James Brown, Augusta, Georgia, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1, Hot Pants
1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1926 Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail
1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1922 Megan Bull, British head mistress, Holloway Jail
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1913 John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1895 Bert Wheeler, actor, Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers
1894 Percy Helton, New York, actor, Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men
1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1838 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
1798 Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail
1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St. jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1425 Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
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