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Today in
Crime History
1932 - Gaston Means was sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
1985 - U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed by the hijackers of Flight 847.
1995 - During the O.J. Simpson murder trial, O.J. was asked to put on a pair of gloves. The gloves were said to have been worn by the killer on the night of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The gloves appeared not to fit.
1996 - The Irish Republican Army set of a truck bomb in a retail district in Manchester England. The explosion wounded more than 200 people.
2003 - In northeast London, a trailer was stolen that contained thousands of copies of J.K. Rowling's book "
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix." The empty trailer was discovered two days later.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announced their arrival.
1987 - A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him. He was convicted of illegal possession of a weapon. Also, in 1996 a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the people he shot.
1989 - In Shanghai three Chinese workers were sentenced to death for setting fire to a train during a pro-democracy protest.
1992 - It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for prosecution.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state prison inmates are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
1999 - Kathleen Ann Soliah was arrested by the FBI in St. Paul,
MN. She had been wanted since 1976 after being indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges.
2003 - In northeast London, a trailer was stolen that contained thousands of copies of J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix." The empty trailer was discovered two days later.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announced their arrival.
Today in
Disaster History
1896 - In Sanriku, Japan, an earthquake and tsunami killed more than 27,000 people.
1904 - In the East River, NY, 1,021 people died when the excursion steamer
General Slocum caught on fire.
1972 - In Pleiku, Vietnam, 81 people were killed when a Cathay Pacific Airways flight crashed while en route from Singapore to Hong Kong. An explosive device in the passenger cabin was cited as the cause of the crash.
Today in
Death History
1904 - The steamboat General Slocum erupted in fire killing more than 1,000 in New York City's East River.
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