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1998 Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax 1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana 1994 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm 1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession 1993 Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession 1992 Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession 1991 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession 1991 Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die 1991 Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge 1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession 1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics 1990 Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession 1986 Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana 1984 Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession 1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine 1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession 1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs 1980 Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession 1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto 1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession 1978 New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1976 Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana 1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession 1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession 1972 Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession 1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession 1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1968 John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession 1968 Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal 1953 Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb 1945 U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan 1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese 1936 Joanna Dunham, actress, Possession, House the Dripped Blood 1925 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy 1921 Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor, Possession 1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete 1906 Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession 1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific 1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland 1884 German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon 1880 Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo 1874 Fiji becomes a British possession 1867 U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia 1867 Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French 1680 Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fe from Spanish 1638 Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited) 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French 1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St. Lazarus

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