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Today in
Crime History

1536 - Anglican priest William Tyndale was captured at Antwerp where he was strangled and burnt. He is credited with making the first English translation of the Bible.

1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."

1981 - Egyptian president Anwar-el Sadat was assassinated at a military rally in Cairo. Muslim extremists were responsible the other eight deaths that occurred during the attack. Hosni Mubarak became president.

1989 - Two workers for the Swiss Red Cross were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon.

1991 - Cable News Network aired a videotape of American hostage Terry Anderson that had been made in Beirut, Lebanon.

1998 - Imelda Marcos was acquitted by the Philippine Supreme Court on the charge of graft. The ruling overturned the guilty verdict that had been found in 1993.

Today in
Disaster History

1972 - Near Saltillo, Mexico, 204 people died and over 1,000 were injured when a train derailed and caught fire.

1976 - In Bridgetown, Barbados, 73 people were killed when a Cubana de Aviacion flight crashed 10 minutes after takeoff. The plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea after the detonation of an explosive device in the cabin.

1985 - Hurricane Juan hit Louisianna and the southeast U.S., 63 people died in the severe flooding. (October 6-November 1)

1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.

1999 - Nigerian officials opened the floodgates on two dams on the Niger River when the threat of Shiriro Lake overflowing occurred. 400 villages were submerged and at least 500 people were killed.

Today in
Death History

2011 - There is nothing available in this database at this time.





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