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2012 Event - Pope Benedict XVI's former butler receives orders from the Vatican to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leading allegations of corruption in the Holy See 2012 Event - The trial over illegal use of campaign funds by U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards begins in North Carolina 2011 Event - Two South African farm workers begin trial for murdering white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche 2011 Event - Former French President Jacques Chirac begins stands trial in Paris for embezzlement charges 2011 Event - The trial of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarek and sons, Alaa and Gamall is adjourned and merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly 2010 Event - Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years 2010 Event - Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten SomaliaÕs on trial for attacking a German ship 2010 Event - The trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich begins today; Blagovich faces corruption charges regarding his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat 2010 Event - Roza Otunbayeva says Kyrgyzstan's ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev must stand trial over riots; gunfire disrupts a rally in support of the former President in the city of Osh 2005 Event - Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq 1998 Event - Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton 1998 Event - Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial 1997 Event - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris 1997 Event - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins 1997 Event - Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial 1997 Event - Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial 1997 Event - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death 1996 Death - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76 1995 Event - O. J. Simpson trial sent to the jury 1995 Event - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA 1994 Event - 1st phase of O. J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen) 1994 Event - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson 1993 Event - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1991 Event - U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins 1991 Event - U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins 1990 Event - Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial 1990 Event - Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill 1989 Death - Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest 1989 Event - In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury 1988 Event - North subpoenas Reagan and Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial 1987 Event - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1987 Event - John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins 1986 Event - Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs 1984 Event - Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally 1983 Event - Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1982 Event - Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 1981 Event - French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run 1979 Event - Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins 1977 Event - Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany 1975 Event - Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) 1975 Event - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart 1974 Event - Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington D.C. 1973 Event - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C. 1971 Event - Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar 1971 Event - Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial 1970 Event - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins 1970 Death - John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 1969 Event - Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial 1969 Event - Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins 1969 Birthday - Erin Hartwell, Philadelphia, time trial cyclist, Olympic-bronze/silver-92, 96 1967 Event - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial 1965 Birthday - Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress, Earth II, Homefront, Trial and Error 1965 Event - Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany 1965 Event - Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends 1965 Event - Kinderstraf trial starts 1963 Event - Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins 1963 Event - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy 1961 Event - Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial 1961 Event - After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 1961 Event - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem 1960 Event - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1959 Event - Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in New York City 1957 Birthday - Bert Oosterbosch, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer 1957 Event - Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1952 Event - Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin 1950 Event - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague 1950 Birthday - Lance Ito, judge, O. J. Simpson trial 1950 Event - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial 1950 Event - Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins 1948 Event - Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City 1947 Event - Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam 1947 Event - Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vonte begins 1946 Event - 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg 1946 Event - Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial 1945 Event - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins 1945 Event - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1945 Event - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg 1945 Event - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg 1945 Event - Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial 1944 Event - July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins 1944 Birthday - Patrick Sercu, born in Belgium, 1K time trial 1964 Olympic gold 1942 Event - Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration 1941 Event - Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins 1941 Event - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague 1938 Death - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80 1937 Birthday - Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside 1937 Event - Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge 1936 Event - Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow 1935 Event - Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby 1933 Event - Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens 1932 Birthday - Arthur L Liman, New York City, trial lawyer, Oliver North 1931 Death - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 1929 Event - Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st 1926 Event - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37 1925 Death - William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 1925 Event - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism 1925 Event - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial 1924 Death - Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40 1924 Event - Trial against Hitler in Munich begins 1921 Event - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago 1920 Birthday - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator 1914 Event - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in New York City 1885 Event - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France 1883 Birthday - Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia, author, Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika 1881 Event - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination 1879 Event - Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins 1875 Event - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City 1873 Event - 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones 1871 Event - Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins 1868 Event - Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury 1868 Event - Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1857 Birthday - Clarence Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial 1831 Event - 1st practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania 1804 Event - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins 1803 Death - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32 1803 Event - 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins 1798 Event - 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins 1792 Event - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason 1778 Event - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass 1771 Death - Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38 1771 Birthday - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer 1732 Birthday - Jean-Claude Trial, composer 1669 Event - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery 1633 Event - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1619 Event - Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague 1593 Event - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1586 Event - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth 1568 Event - Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart 1535 Event - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1525 Event - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague 1525 Event - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague 1431 Event - England begins trial against Joan of Arc |
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