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2011 Event - Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris

2010 Event - The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote

2010 Death - Robert Byrd, born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Senator 1959 - 2010, longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, dies at age 92

2010 Event - After serving twenty-one terms, U.S. Representative, Democrat, and Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Dave Obey, announces he will not run for re-election

1995 Event - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

1994 Death - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93

1991 Event - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race

1990 Event - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months

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

1970 Event - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1942 Event - National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

1898 Birthday - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor

1879 Event - James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota

1863 Event - Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked

1862 Event - U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1794 Event - Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces

1794 Event - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers

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