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2012 Event - Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud

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

2011 Event - Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of the State of Illinois, is issued a sentence of 14 years in jail for corruption

2010 Event - The last death row inmate in Cuba has his death sentence commuted; the nation is against capital punishment and has commuted many death sentences since 2008

1997 Event - Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh

1997 Event - Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling

1997 Event - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death

1996 Event - Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

1992 Event - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail

1992 Event - Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion

1991 Event - Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store

1990 Event - Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop

1990 Event - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion

1989 Event - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

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

1987 Event - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)

1986 Event - Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide

1983 Event - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

1981 Event - Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words

1979 Event - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

1979 Event - President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

1978 Event - Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp

1977 Death - Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82

1977 Event - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

1971 Event - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

1967 Event - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence

1967 Event - Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

1950 Event - President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence

1949 Event - Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1948 Event - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death

1948 Event - Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason

1947 Event - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis

1946 Event - Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial

1946 Event - NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail

1945 Event - Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl

1944 Event - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

1943 Event - 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III

1943 Event - German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)

1943 Event - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau

1943 Event - Rauter signs unofficial death sentence

1942 Event - Allies in London sentence German war criminals

1927 Event - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia

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

1921 Event - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death

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

1894 Birthday - Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence'

1885 Event - Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands

1795 Event - Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao

1587 Event - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence

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