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