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2010 Event - Ukranian prosecutors claim that in 2000, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze

2010 Event - Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009

2004 Event - After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia

2001 Event - Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12

2001 Death - Barbara Olson, "political commentator, writer", Politically Incorrect, dies at 45 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 Death - Berry Berenson, photographer/actress, dies at 53 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 Death - David Angell, producer, Frasier, dies at 55 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

1998 Event - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder

1997 Event - Islamist terrorists murder 60 tourists at Luxor in Egypt

1997 Event - Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter

1997 Event - Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial

1997 Event - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement

1996 Event - Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder

1996 Event - "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 17 performances

1996 Event - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances

1995 Event - O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

1995 Event - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA

1994 Event - Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder

1994 Event - Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children

1994 Event - 1st phase of O. J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)

1994 Event - DNA testing links O. J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

1994 Event - O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder

1994 Event - O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing

1994 Event - O. J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman

1994 Event - O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angeles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up

1994 Event - Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder

1994 Death - Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73

1993 Death - Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85

1993 Event - Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin

1993 Event - Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria

1993 Death - Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40

1993 Death - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington, New Hampshire in 200 years, killed at 45

1993 Event - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villagers in East Turkey

1993 Event - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder

1993 Death - Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies

1993 Event - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

1992 Death - Lucrecia Perez, Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33

1991 Death - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86

1989 Event - Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal

1989 Event - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)

1989 Event - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution

1989 Event - Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie

1988 Event - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1988 Death - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies

1987 Event - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre

1986 Death - Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79

1985 Event - Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder

1985 Event - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife

1983 Death - John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80

1981 Event - J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder

1981 Event - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta

1980 Event - Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder

1979 Event - Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

1978 Event - Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder

1978 Event - Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen

1976 Death - Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69

1975 Event - Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges

1975 Death - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder

1972 Death - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80

1971 Death - Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90

1971 Event - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

1971 Event - Charles Manson convicted of murder

1969 Event - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1969 Birthday - Mary McCormack, actress, Murder One, Private Parts

1968 Birthday - Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor, Spencer, Apprentice to Murder

1967 Birthday - Sheryl Lee, born in Boulder, Colorado, actress, Twin Peaks, Love Lies and Murder

1964 Event - Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers

1964 Event - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later

1964 Death - Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21

1964 Event - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder

1963 Event - 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

1963 Birthday - James Wilder, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Scorchers, Zombie High, Murder 1

1962 Event - 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria

1961 Event - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots

1959 Birthday - John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder

1959 Birthday - Anthony LaPaglia, actor, Murder One

1957 Event - Ed Gein found insane of murder

1957 Death - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55

1951 Birthday - Barry Van Dyke, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder

1950 Birthday - Amos Gitai, actor, Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder

1948 Event - Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)

1946 Event - Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland

1946 Death - Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57

1944 Death - Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder

1942 Event - Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union

1941 Event - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia

1941 Event - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union

1941 Event - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

1939 Event - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews

1935 Event - T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London

1935 Birthday - Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress, Machine Calls it Murder

1935 Event - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant

1935 Event - Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby

1934 Event - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son

1929 Birthday - James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death

1928 Birthday - John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale

1927 Birthday - Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor, Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote

1927 Birthday - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor, Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder

1925 Birthday - Geraldine Brooks, New York City, actress, Faraday and Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder

1924 Event - Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder

1923 Birthday - William Windom, New York City, actor, Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote

1922 Birthday - Ursula Howells, London, actress, Girly, Murder is Announced

1922 Event - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens

1920 Birthday - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor, Murder in Cathedral

1919 Birthday - Vera Hruba Ralston, born in Czechoslovakia, actress, Dakota, Accused of Murder

1916 Birthday - Robert Lowery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Murder Over New York

1915 Death - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder

1915 Event - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life

1915 Event - Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia

1914 Birthday - David Brian, New York City, actor, Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco

1911 Birthday - Eddie Mayehoff, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife

1910 Birthday - Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office

1908 Birthday - Robert Cummings, born in Joplin, Missouri, actor, Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder

1907 Birthday - Phyllis Konstam, born in London, England, actress, Murder, Skin Game

1906 Birthday - Esmond Knight, East Sheen, England, actor, Hamlet, Sleeping Murder

1903 Birthday - John Williams, born in England, actor, Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder

1902 Birthday - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster, Murder Inc

1900 Birthday - Sean O'Faolain, John Whelan, Ire, writer, Murder at Cobbler's Hulk

1893 Birthday - Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor, Murder at the Vanities

1893 Event - Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass

1892 Birthday - Margaret Rutherford, England, actress, Murder Most Foul

1890 Birthday - Agatha Christie, mystery writer, Murder on Orient Express

1890 Birthday - Herbert Marshall, London, actor, Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes

1888 Birthday - S S Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, author, Canary Murder Case

1888 Birthday - Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer, Viaduct Murder

1885 Event - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France

1881 Birthday - Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn

1879 Death - Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39

1859 Event - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used

1811 Event - Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500

1807 Death - John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London

1801 Event - Murder attempt on Czar Paul I

1798 Event - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews

1792 Event - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera

1761 Birthday - John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio

1760 Death - Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward

1740 Event - Netherlands Governor-General Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia

1711 Event - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

1599 Death - Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35

1589 Event - Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III

1585 Event - English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I

1562 Event - Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

1288 Event - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder

1176 Event - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo

390 Event - Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica

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