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2004 After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia

2001 Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12

2001 Barbara Olson, "political commentator, writer", Politically Incorrect, dies at 45 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 Berry Berenson, photographer/actress, dies at 53 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 David Angell, producer, Frasier, dies at 55 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder

1997 Islamist terrorists murder 60 tourists at Luxor in Egypt

1997 Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter

1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial

1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement

1996 Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder

1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 17 performances

1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances

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

1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA

1994 Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder

1994 Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children

1994 1st phase of O. J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)

1994 DNA testing links O. J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

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

1994 O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing

1994 O. J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman

1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder

1994 Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73

1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85

1993 Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin

1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria

1993 Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40

1993 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45

1993 Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villagers in East Turkey

1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder

1993 Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies

1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

1992 Lucrecia Perez, Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33

1991 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86

1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal

1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)

1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution

1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie

1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies

1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre

1986 Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79

1985 Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder

1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife

1983 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80

1981 J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder

1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta

1980 Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder

1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder

1978 Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen

1976 Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69

1975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges

1975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder

1972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80

1971 Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90

1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

1971 Charles Manson convicted of murder

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

1969 Mary McCormack, actress, Murder One, Private Parts

1968 Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor, Spencer, Apprentice to Murder

1967 Sheryl Lee, born in Boulder, Colorado, actress, Twin Peaks, Love Lies and Murder

1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers

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

1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21

1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder

1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

1963 James Wilder, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Scorchers, Zombie High, Murder 1

1962 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria

1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots

1959 John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder

1959 Anthony LaPaglia, actor, Murder One

1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder

1957 Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55

1951 Barry Van Dyke, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder

1950 Amos Gitai, actor, Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder

1948 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)

1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland

1946 Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57

1944 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder

1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union

1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia

1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union

1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews

1935 T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London

1935 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress, Machine Calls it Murder

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

1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son

1929 James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death

1928 John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale

1927 Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor, Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote

1927 Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor, Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder

1925 Geraldine Brooks, New York City, actr, Faraday and Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder

1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder

1924 Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, President daughter/writer, Murder at FBI, /pianist

1923 William Windom, New York City, actor, Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote

1922 Ursula Howells, London, actress, Girly, Murder is Announced

1922 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens

1920 Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor, Murder in Cathedral

1919 Vera Hruba Ralston, born in Czechoslovakia, actress, Dakota, Accused of Murder

1916 Robert Lowery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Murder Over New York

1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder

1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life

1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia

1914 David Brian, New York City, actor, Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco

1911 Eddie Mayehoff, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife

1910 Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office

1908 Robert Cummings, born in Joplin, Missouri, actor, Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder

1907 Phyllis Konstam, born in London, England, actress, Murder, Skin Game

1906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen, England, actor, Hamlet, Sleeping Murder

1903 John Williams, born in England, actor, Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder

1902 Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster, Murder Inc

1900 Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer, Murder at Cobbler's Hulk

1893 Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor, Murder at the Vanities

1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass

1892 Margaret Rutherford, England, actress, Murder Most Foul

1890 Agatha Christie, mystery writer, Murder on Orient Express

1890 Herbert Marshall, London, actor, Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes

1888 S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author, Canary Murder Case

1888 Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer, Viaduct Murder

1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France

1881 Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn

1879 Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39

1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used

1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500

1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I

1798 Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews

1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera

1760 Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward

1740 Netherlands gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia

1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

1599 Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35

1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III

1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I

1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder

1176 Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo

390 Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica



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