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1997 O.J. Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson

1993 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani

1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders

1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents

1981 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours

1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders

1971 Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders

1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

1967 Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," premieres in New York City

1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago

1960 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders

1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73

1947 Michael Gross, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Family Ties, FBI murders

1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen

1944 Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder)

1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1940 Marcia Rodd, actress, Little Murders, T R Baskins

1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland

1929 Jules Feiffer, New York City, cartoonist, Passionella, author, Little Murders

1922 Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue

1921 Douglass Watson, Jackson Georgia, actor, Satan Murders, Another World

1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots

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

1877 Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians

1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published

1841 Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published

1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen

1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200

754 Friezen murders bishop Boniface and over 50 companions


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