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2010 Maylasia's Islamic morality police capture 52 unmarried couples in hotel rooms, charging them with sexual misconduct and possible imprisonment
2009 Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured 2001 Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana 2001 David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1997 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by New York City police 1996 Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51 1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier 1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization 1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators 1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters 1994 Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 1994 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 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 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating 1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police 1993 U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti 1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola 1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered 1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 New York City police commisioner Brown resigns 1992 Daryl Gates retires as Los Angeles police chief 1992 Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin 1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police 1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable 1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 1991 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters 1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) 1990 Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home 1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional 1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills 1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution 1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague 1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ 1988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad" 1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens 1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton 1987 West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking 1986 Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam 1985 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong 1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders 1984 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire 1984 James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam 1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters 1983 Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives 1982 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp 1981 Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" 1980 Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 1980 1st female state police graduates, New Jersey 1980 Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed 1980 Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK 1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars 1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1978 Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) 1978 Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters 1977 Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City 1976 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to 1974 Taiwan police shoots into crowd 1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators 1973 Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm 1972 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs 1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession 1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader 1970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) 1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA 1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days 1968 Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry 1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed 1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven 1968 Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head 1967 Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress, Vagabond, Police 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured 1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers 1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley 1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police 1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy 1961 Battle of Paris - police kill 210 Algerians 1961 U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police 1960 Michael Winslow, born in Spokane, Washington, actor/comedian, Police Academy 1960 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC 1958 Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit 1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1955 Robin Zander, rocker vocalist and guitarist, Cheap Trick-Dream Police 1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 1951 Leslie Easterbrook, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5 1951 Ben E. Carlos, rock drummer, Cheap Trick-Dream Police 1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators 1950 Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police 1950 David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful 1950 David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor, Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6 1950 Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied 1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike 1948 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia 1946 Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins 1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed 1945 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1945 Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter 1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy 1945 Frank Murray, police Officer 1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary 1944 Paris police strike against nazi occupiers 1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1943 James Wallace Beaton, born in Britain, Chief Superintendent, The Queen's Police Officer 1983 - 1992, saved Princess Anne from kidnapper 1974 1942 Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies 1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris 1941 Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, New York gangster/police informer, killed 1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males 1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews 1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1940 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross 1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1937 Joseph Wambaugh, born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police writer, Onion Fields 1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police 1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers 1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) 1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York 1933 German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell 1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter 1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri 1931 Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, actress, Police Woman 1931 John Dellow, commisioner, London Metropolitan Police 1930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City 1930 Peter Marshall, police commissioner, London 1930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College 1929 Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders 1929 Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed 1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin 1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover 1928 Earl Holliman, born in Delhi, Louisiana, actor, Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic 1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1925 David McNee, commissioner, Metropolitan Police 1923 Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna 1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1919 Boston's police force forms strike 1917 Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski 1913 Roy Engle, Missouri, actor, Police Chief-My Favorite Martian 1912 Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya) 1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called 1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business 1904 St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints 1904 Mounted police 1st used in New York City 1903 Ted de Corsia, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon 1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam 1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1901 Leo Poos, nazi police officer, caught Dutch underground agents 1899 Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 1892 Charles Delaney, New York City, actor, Air Police, Lonesome Trail 1890 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation 1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1874 Battle between jobless and police in New York City, 100s injuried 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms 1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded 1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco 1857 E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1835 Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Government 1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) 1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1819 Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1793 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1775 Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective 1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1693 New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1658 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam) |
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