2015 Event Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns after a warrant is issued for his arrest on bribery charges; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado will take Perez Molina's place 2015 Event Two animal rights activists are placed under house arrest, awaiting trial for acts of terrorism against the fur industry; in 2013, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane released minks from mink farms and vandalized fur businesses across the U.S. 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 North Korea releases Americans Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae; Bae was imprisoned for two years after arrest for missionary actions, while Miller was detained in April for 'hostile acts' after tearing up his visa and requesting asylum 2014 Event A series of hidden online markets are taken down after raids by U.S. and European authorities and the arrest of 17 people; the markets were used to secretly trade illegal goods 2014 Event Texas Governor Rick Perry has been convicted of felony for threatening to block state funds from the office of District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg unless she resigned; the threat stemmed from Lehmberg's arrest for drunk driving 2014 Event Celebrity and pop singer Justin Bieber makes headlines when he is arrested for drunk driving, street racing and resisting arrest 2013 Event Prior to being transferred to house arrest, former Egyptian President is released from prison and transferred to a military hospital 2013 Event Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears for the first time in court since his arrest April 19; he pleads not guilty to 30 charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction 2012 Event Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province, for inciting 8 self-immolation protests against Chinese rule 2012 Event After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy 2012 Event Accused of spying, Sudan arrest four foreigners in the disputed border region with South Sudan 2012 Event Footballer Fabrice Muamba is critically ill and in a London hospital intensive care unit after undergoing cardiac arrest on live television during the 41st minute of the FA cup quarter final 2012 Event Despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, Julian Assange announces his plan to run for the Senate of Australia 2012 Event The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest 2011 Event Pakistan's government announces the arrest of Younis al-Mauritani, the senior Al-Qaeda chief 2011 Event Juan Maria Bordaberry, former Uruguayan dictator, dies while under house arrest for murders committed during his dictatorship 2011 Event Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye is placed under house arrest, after vowing to continue protests against the rising cost of living 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 Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen they believe were involved in the massacre of 72 migrants at Tamaulipas 2010 Event Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp 2009 Event Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured 2009 Event An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur 2007 Death Jerry Falwell, dies in Virginia, of cardiac arrest, at 73 2007 Death Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power 1997 Death Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 1997 Event Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop 1996 Event John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days 1995 Event Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier 1993 Death Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 1993 Death Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 1993 Event Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola 1992 Death Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 1991 Death Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 1991 Death Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50 1990 Death Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82 1990 Event New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) 1989 Death Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest 1989 Event Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest 1989 Event Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague 1988 Death Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51 1987 Event Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson 1987 Event West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking 1984 Death Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 1984 Death Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 1983 Death Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest 1982 Death Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 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 Event Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest 1978 Event Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1976 Event Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow 1976 Event East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to 1972 Event West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader 1972 Event Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest 1970 Event 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy 1969 Death Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49 1967 Event Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia 1956 Event France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella 1953 Event Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] 1951 Event Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest 1946 Event Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist 1945 Event British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 Event Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman 1945 Event Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths 1944 Event Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1943 Event German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor 1943 Event Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents 1942 Event French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris 1942 Event Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman 1941 Event Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1940 Event Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1937 Birthday Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside 1933 Event Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno 1929 Event Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders 1920 Event Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers and arrest 24 fans for gambling 1917 Event Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws 1915 Event Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law 1914 Event Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels 1914 Event Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa 1884 Event Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel" 1871 Event Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy 1861 Event Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest 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 1846 Event Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune 1843 Event British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy 1796 Event French government arrest 10 utopists 1692 Event Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts) 1679 Event Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
