2013 Event Former President of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla dies in a jail in Marcos Paze, Buenos Aires 2012 Event Three widows and two daughters of Osama bin Laden were charged with illegally living in Pakistan; they were sentenced with 45 days in jail and fined $114 each 2011 Event Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of the State of Illinois, is issued a sentence of 14 years in jail for corruption 2011 Event For appearing in a film critical of the Iran's harsh policies on the arts, actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year in jail 2011 Event Casey Anthony, cleared of murdering her daughter Caylee and set to be released from the Orange County, Florida jail, attracts major crowds unhappy with the judgement 2010 Event Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison 2010 Event Hossein Marashi, former Vice-President of Iran, is put in jail after being accused of spreading propaganda 1997 Event Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion 1996 Event Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence 1995 Event Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years 1995 Death Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail 1994 Event PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail 1994 Event Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Event Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail 1994 Event Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days 1993 Event Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months 1992 Event John Gotti begins life sentence in jail 1992 Event Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion 1990 Event Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop 1990 Event Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI 1990 Event Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail 1989 Event Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence 1987 Event Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1982 Event Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland 1981 Event IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail 1980 Event Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported 1978 Event India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1978 Event H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail 1977 Event Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado 1977 Event 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee 1977 Event Patty Hearst let out of jail 1974 Event Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail 1972 Event Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail 1971 Event President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term 1971 Event Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa 1970 Event U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail 1970 Event U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail 1967 Event Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence 1967 Event Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge 1967 Event Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1966 Event Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury 1962 Death Mauritius Dekker, Boris Robazki, writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66 1962 Event Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail 1961 Event "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC 1956 Birthday Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1953 Event France closes jail on Devil Island 1947 Event Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced 1947 Event Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia 1946 Birthday Jim Varney, born in Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Ernest Goes to Jail, "Hey Vern" 1946 Event NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail 1944 Event KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail 1943 Event German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) 1939 Event Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail 1936 Birthday Neville E Alexander, South african, 10 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1934 Event Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail 1934 Event John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol 1933 Event John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail 1930 Event Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced 1928 Event Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail 1927 Event Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia 1926 Birthday Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1924 Event Adolf Hitler freed from jail early 1924 Event Mahatma Gandhi released from jail 1922 Birthday Megan Bull, British head mistress, Holloway Jail 1921 Event Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM 1913 Birthday John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail 1913 Event British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1895 Birthday Bert Wheeler, actor, Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers 1894 Birthday Percy Helton, New York, actor, Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men 1875 Event William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, New York City - Tammany Hall, escapes from jail 1838 Death Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail 1798 Event Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail 1773 Event Construction authorized for Walnut St. jail in Philadelphia 1632 Death John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 1590 Event King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail 1425 Event Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
