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Crime History 1965 - Ray Charles was convicted of possession of heroin and marijuana. He was given a five-year suspended sentence and fined $10,000. 1976 - Seven gunman fired shots into Bob Marley's home in Kingston, Jamaica where he and the Wailers were rehearsing. No one was seriously hurt. 1980 - U.S. Representatives Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-NJ) and John Murphy (D-NY) were convicted on Abscam charges. 1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners were slain in Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces. 1991 - After nearly five years, Shiite Muslim radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Allen Sutten. 1993 - Jay-Z was arrested in connection with the stabbing of music executive Lance Rivera. The rapper was charged with first-degree assault. Disaster History 1972 - In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, 155 people were killed when a Spantax flight crashed. 1979 - At Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum eleven Who fans were trampled to death in the rush to gain admittance for general (unreserved) seats to the band's concert. 1984 - In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people died and about 150,000 were injured when toxic gas (methyl isocyanate) escaped from a Union Carbide insecticide plant. 1999 - In Worcester, Massachusettes, six firefighters were killed while fighting a fire at a warehouse. The fire had been accidentally set by a homeless couple. Death History 1990 - A collision, on the ground, of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 and a Northwest Boeing 727 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, resulted in a fire that claimed eight lives. 1998 - In Manilla, 28 people were killed in an orphanage that caught fire. Most of the victims were children. Tomorrow in Disaster History. |