2015 Event Aducanumab, a new drug developed by Biogen to treat Alzheimer's, is showing success in reducing toxic brain plaque and decreasing the rate of mental impairment in trials; if successful in further testing, the drug may be available by 2020 2015 Event Teixobactin, a newly discovered antibiotic, offers hope in treating tuberculosis and infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria; the drug has been effective in rodent trials but has not yet been tested in humans 2014 Event Researchers announce a new orally-administered drug that may cure Hepatitis C; 90 percent of patients in trials were declared free of the virus after 12 weeks 2012 Event During the U.S. selection trials, U.S. track and field athlete Ashton Eaton sets the new world record for the decathlon 2010 Event In one of Spain's biggest corruption trials, 95 people, including two former mayors and a planning chief, appear in court in Malaga 1985 Death B V A Roling, Dutch lawyer (WW II Tokyo trials), dies at 78 1984 Event Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials 1978 Death Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74 1965 Event Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences 1964 Birthday Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1946 Event 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials 1942 Event Allied Conference for war trials 1938 Event Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1937 Event 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1926 Birthday Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials 1912 Event Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power 1903 Birthday Ilka Chase, born in New York City, actress, Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien 1883 Birthday Lord Birkett, England, judge, Nuremburg Trials 1871 Event Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC 1794 Event France revolutionary regime begins trials 1692 Event Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials
