2015 Event Migrants in Serbia trying to enter the E.U. via Hungary attempt to break through a border gate, causing conflict with Hungarian police; Hungary has closed its border, but Serbia will send travelers to Croatia so they can then go on to northern Europe 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama bans the use of certain military equipment by police in the wake of recent deaths of unarmed black men by police officers; the move is meant to help communities see police as protectors rather than as an 'occupied force' 2015 Event Police have killed two of the three men who attacked the offices of French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' yesterday to avenge the Prophet Muhammad; the third attacker turned himself in after the incident, which killed 12 and wounded 11 people 2014 Event The United States and allied forces end the combat mission in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.; about 13,000 troops will stay to train Afghan police and military forces in their fight against the Taliban 2014 Event Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, a key member of the military arm of the al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabab, surrenders to police; the group seeks to take over the U.N.-supported Somali government 2014 Event Tension increases for New York City police after a man kills two officers to avenge the killing of two unarmed black men by police in recent weeks; police have been ordered to work in pairs and to consider their own safety first while on patrol 2014 Event Thousands of protesters march in Washington, D.C., to protest recent killings of unarmed black men by policemen; the marchers called for an end to police brutality and racial injustice in the U.S. legal system 2014 Event Protests erupt in New York and other U.S. cities after a grand jury does not indict a white police officer for choking to death an unarmed man, Eric Garner; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to retrain the police force in conflict resolution 2014 Event A gunman attempts to set fire to the Mexican consulate and shoots at police headquarters, the federal court building, and other structures in Austin, Texas before being shot by police; the attack may have been motivated by anti-immigration sentiments 2014 Event Police arrest over 140 people and continue clearing away camps formed by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong; the protesters seek autonomy in selection of Hong Kong candidates rather than selection of election choices by the Chinese government 2014 Event A grand jury in St. Louis County reaches the decision that police officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted in the shooting death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown; the decision sparked protests, looting and businesses being burned to the ground in St. Louis, as well as protests across the U.S. 2014 Event A planned demonstration in Iran against recent acid attacks on women has been prevented by a show of police forces; protesters believe the women were attacked due to improper covering in accordance with the nation's dress code 2014 Event A mentally ill man is apprehended after jumping the White House fence and injuring the two police dogs that stopped him; the man had been previously arrested near the White House on a misdemeanor 2014 Event Hong Kong protesters continue to clash with police a day after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying offers to engage in discussion; Leung said that he will not concede to demands for greater independence from central control, a key reason for the protest 2014 Event Continued riots in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer have resulted in the announcement of a state of emergency and a curfew by Governor Jay Nixon 2014 Event Residents of Ferguson, MO call for FBI investigation of the shooting death of a teenager by a police officer; the reason for the confrontation has not been disclosed 2014 Event Dutch and Australian police are headed to eastern Ukraine in the continuing search for bodies and evidence in the missile strike of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17; separatists have been accused of tampering with evidence and hindering investigations 2014 Event Mohammed Zakari, a leader of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has been arrested by Nigerian police; Boko Haram is implicated in hundreds of deaths and kidnappings, and Zakari is wanted for the recent killings of seven people 2014 Event Brazilian police distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors with instructions on how to behave in the event of a robbery; the advice is meant to protect victims from injury or death during crime 2014 Event The London police force begins a pilot program using body cameras to record behavior and document evidence during responses to incidents 2014 Event Over 300 books related to Anne Frank are donated to Tokyo libraries by the embassy of Israel after a mass vandalism incident earlier this month that destroyed hundreds of the library system's existing copies; police are still investigating 2013 Event Russia's parliament passes bills banning homosexual 'propaganda'; police near the Duma take gays into custody after they anti-gay extremists hit them with eggs 2013 Event London's Metropolitan police remove belongings and sleeping bags of homeless people as part of 'a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community' 2012 Event Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea 2012 Event Riot police are sent out to greet thousands of protesters in Madrid, Spain, who demand that the government quit 2012 Event Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street 2012 Event Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency 2012 Event Illegally excavated Buddhist relics that were recovered by Pakistani police were stolen from a police station in Karachi; the pieces date back to the Gandhara civilization which existed over 2,000 years ago in Pakistan 2011 Event In Cairo, thousands of Egyptian women demonstrate against military police for abuse against female demonstrators in Tahir Square 2011 Event New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest 2011 Event Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement 2011 Event Two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban are indicted in Pakistan for murdering Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto 2011 Event The South Korean military has police clear protesters from the building site of its new naval base in Jeju-do 2011 Event Japan's National Police Agency discloses that 90% of cyberattacks on its web site came from IP addresses in the People's Republic of China 2011 Event Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help 2011 Event In London, British rioters set police cars on fire in the suburb of Tottenham 2011 Event In Greece, Police fire tear gas on protesters angry over cuts their government made in co-operation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund 2011 Event Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building 2011 Event In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine's Day 2010 Event In Italy, a package at the Bologna Airport, addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames during an inspection by police 2010 Event South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption 2010 Event Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old fugitive known as the 'Barefoot Bandit' is captured by police in northern Eleuthera, The Bahamas 2010 Event The largest manhunt in U.K. recent history ends when gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself in a 6-hour standoff with police 2010 Event Maylasia's Islamic morality police capture 52 unmarried couples in hotel rooms, charging them with sexual misconduct and possible imprisonment 2009 Event Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured 2001 Event Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana 2001 Death David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 1997 Event Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1997 Event Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by New York City police 1996 Death Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51 1995 Event Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier 1995 Event New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization 1995 Event Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators 1995 Event Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters 1994 Death Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 1994 Death Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 1994 Event O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up 1994 Event Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating 1994 Event South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police 1993 Event U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti 1993 Event Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola 1993 Event Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Death Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered 1993 Event Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Event New York City police commisioner Brown resigns 1992 Event Daryl Gates retires as Los Angeles police chief 1992 Event Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin 1991 Event Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police 1991 Event Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable 1991 Event 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 1991 Event Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1990 Event Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters 1990 Event New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) 1990 Event Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home 1990 Event Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional 1990 Event Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine 1990 Event Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1990 Event Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators 1989 Event Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills 1989 Event Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution 1989 Event Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague 1988 Event 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey 1988 Event "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad" 1988 Event Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens 1988 Event Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton 1987 Event West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking 1986 Death Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 1986 Event Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1986 Event Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam 1985 Event South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong 1985 Event Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11 1985 Event Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders 1984 Event New York City subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire 1984 Death James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 1983 Event Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam 1983 Event In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters 1983 Death Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 1982 Event Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives 1982 Event Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp 1981 Event Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 1981 Event British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1981 Event British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" 1980 Death Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 1980 Event 1st female state police graduates, New Jersey 1980 Event Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed 1980 Event Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1980 Event South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1980 Event Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Event Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 1980 Event Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 1979 Event "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK 1979 Event Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars 1978 Event Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1978 Event Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) 1978 Event Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters 1977 Death Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody 1977 Event 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City 1976 Event East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to 1974 Event Taiwan police shoots into crowd 1974 Event Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators 1973 Death Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 1972 Event Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm 1972 Event Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs 1972 Event Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession 1972 Event West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 1972 Event West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader 1971 Birthday Matt Stone, born in Houston, Texas, musician, actor, screenwriter, co-creator of 'South Park' Emmy-Award winning television series, co-created film, 'Team America: World Police' 1970 Event 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) 1969 Event Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA 1969 Event Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days 1968 Event Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry 1968 Event Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed 1968 Event Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven 1968 Event Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured 1968 Event Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head 1967 Birthday Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress, Vagabond, Police 1966 Event Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured 1966 Event Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers 1964 Event Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley 1964 Event Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference 1963 Event Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 Event Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators 1962 Event Nelson Mandela captured by South African police 1962 Birthday Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy 1961 Event Battle of Paris - police kill 210 Algerians 1961 Event U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police 1960 Birthday Michael Winslow, born in Spokane, Washington, actor/comedian, Police Academy 1960 Event South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill 1960 Event Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC 1958 Birthday Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit 1958 Event Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1955 Birthday Robin Zander, rocker vocalist and guitarist, Cheap Trick-Dream Police 1953 Event 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 1951 Birthday Leslie Easterbrook, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5 1951 Birthday Ben E. Carlos, rock drummer, Cheap Trick-Dream Police 1951 Event Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators 1950 Death Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police 1950 Birthday David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful 1950 Birthday David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor, Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6 1950 Birthday Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4 1949 Event SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied 1948 Event Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike 1948 Event Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia 1946 Birthday Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins 1946 Death J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed 1945 Event British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 Event Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1945 Event Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter 1945 Birthday Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy 1945 Birthday Frank Murray, police Officer 1945 Event Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary 1944 Event Paris police strike against nazi occupiers 1944 Birthday Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 Event Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Event SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1943 Birthday James Wallace Beaton, born in Britain, Chief Superintendent, The Queen's Police Officer 1983 - 1992, saved Princess Anne from kidnapper 1974 1942 Death Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies 1942 Event French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris 1941 Death Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, New York gangster/police informer, killed 1941 Event Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males 1941 Event Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews 1941 Event Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1940 Event Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross 1938 Event LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police 1937 Event Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1937 Event Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 1937 Event Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1937 Birthday Joseph Wambaugh, born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police writer, Onion Fields 1934 Death Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1934 Death Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1934 Event Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police 1934 Event Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers 1933 Event Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) 1933 Event 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York 1933 Event German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1933 Event Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1933 Event Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell 1932 Event German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter 1932 Event Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri 1931 Birthday Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, actress, Police Woman 1931 Birthday John Dellow, commisioner, London Metropolitan Police 1930 Event Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City 1930 Birthday Peter Marshall, police commissioner, London 1930 Birthday Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College 1929 Event Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders 1929 Event Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed 1929 Event Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin 1928 Event Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover 1928 Birthday Earl Holliman, born in Delhi, Louisiana, actor, Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic 1928 Birthday Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1925 Birthday David McNee, commissioner, Metropolitan Police 1923 Event Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna 1921 Event Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee 1920 Event Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1919 Event U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1919 Event Boston's police force forms strike 1917 Event Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski 1913 Birthday Roy Engle, Missouri, actor, Police Chief-My Favorite Martian 1912 Event Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya) 1907 Event J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called 1906 Event Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business 1904 Event St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints 1904 Event Mounted police 1st used in New York City 1903 Birthday Ted de Corsia, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon 1903 Event Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam 1902 Event Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1901 Birthday Leo Poos, nazi police officer, caught Dutch underground agents 1899 Birthday Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 1897 Event Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 1892 Birthday Charles Delaney, New York City, actor, Air Police, Lonesome Trail 1890 Event 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation 1885 Event Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united 1884 Event Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1874 Event Battle between jobless and police in New York City, 100s injuried 1873 Event Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms 1873 Event Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded 1865 Event Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco 1857 Death E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 1856 Event Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1850 Death Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1835 Event Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Government 1830 Event London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) 1829 Event London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) 1829 Event Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1819 Event Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1793 Death Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1775 Birthday Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective 1753 Birthday Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1693 Event New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1658 Event 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
