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2013 Event - The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison

2013 Event - Prosecutors for Boston Marathon bomber and Islamic terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev discuss a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life in prison without parole

2013 Event - In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills

2012 Event - Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted

2012 Event - Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

2010 Event - In Bauchi, northern Nigeria, an Islamist militant group named Boko Haram raids a prison and frees 721 inmates

2010 Event - Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison

2010 Event - South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

2010 Event - Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison

2010 Event - After new allegations of torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports a second U.S. secret prison exists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

2010 Event - Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues

2009 Event - Inmates at Iraq's notoriuous Abu Grraib prison start a fire and clash with guards during two days of unrest

2009 Event - Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces

2003 Death - Johnny Cash, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line", dies at 71

1997 Death - William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79

1996 Death - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76

1995 Event - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters

1994 Death - Jeffrey Dahmer, Butcher of Milwaukee, killer, killed in prison at 34

1994 Event - 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt

1993 Event - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador

1993 Death - Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69

1992 Event - Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison

1992 Event - Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison

1991 Event - Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1991 Event - Singer James Brown is released from prison

1990 Event - Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp

1989 Event - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

1988 Event - Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown

1987 Event - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison

1987 Death - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93

1987 Death - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference

1987 Event - 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1982 Death - Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas

1982 Event - Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)

1981 Death - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies

1981 Event - Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike

1981 Event - Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison

1980 Event - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000

1979 Event - Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery

1979 Event - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison

1977 Event - SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome

1977 Event - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

1977 Event - Former White House chief of staff home run Haldeman enters prison

1977 Event - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1977 Death - Jan Patocka, Czechoslovakian philosopher, dies in prison

1975 Event - Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla)

1975 Event - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

1974 Event - Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

1974 Death - Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82

1973 Death - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison

1972 Event - Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail

1971 Event - Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey

1971 Death - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84

1971 Event - 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

1971 Event - 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison

1967 Death - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87

1967 Event - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)

1967 Event - Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison

1967 Event - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1964 Event - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1962 Death - Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

1961 Event - Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo

1956 Event - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

1955 Event - Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1951 Event - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1950 Birthday - Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True'

1950 Event - Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

1949 Event - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

1946 Death - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at age 53

1946 Event - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay

1945 Death - Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44

1944 Event - Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

1944 Event - Gandhi freed from prison

1943 Birthday - Ray Mitchell, governor, Albany Prison, England

1941 Birthday - Martin Mogg, governor, British Durham Prison

1941 Birthday - Brendan O'Friel, CEO, Prison Governors Association

1940 Birthday - Bob Duncan, prison warden, Gartree Prison in UK

1936 Birthday - Alan Rayfield, governor, Long Latin Prison

1934 Birthday - Roger Kendrick, governor, Dartmoor Prison

1934 Event - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

1933 Event - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

1932 Birthday - Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line"

1932 Event - Al Capone sent to prison

1929 Birthday - Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison

1925 Event - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta

1924 Birthday - John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office

1922 Event - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

1922 Event - British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience

1920 Birthday - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor

1918 Birthday - William Perrie, British prison governor

1913 Birthday - Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm

1893 Event - Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud

1891 Birthday - Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress, Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband

1887 Birthday - Raymond Hatton, born in Red Oak, Iowa, actor, Girls in Prison, Lady Killer

1884 Event - London prison for debtors closed

1873 Event - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute

1865 Death - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty

1862 Event - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.

1811 Birthday - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer

1809 Event - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

1780 Birthday - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

1739 Event - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1703 Death - Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies

1619 Event - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1567 Event - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland

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