2013 Event In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills 1998 Event Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax 1994 Event Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana 1994 Event Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm 1993 Event Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession 1993 Event Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession 1992 Event Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession 1991 Event New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession 1991 Event Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die 1991 Event Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge 1991 Event James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession 1991 Event Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Event Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics 1990 Event Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession 1986 Event Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana 1984 Event Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis 1984 Event Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession 1981 Event Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine 1981 Event Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession 1980 Event Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs 1980 Death Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82 1980 Event Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession 1978 Event Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto 1978 Event Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession 1978 Event New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back 1977 Event Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1976 Event Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession 1975 Event Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana 1973 Event Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession 1972 Event Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession 1972 Event Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession 1970 Event Steven Stills arrested for drug possession 1970 Event Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Event Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Event Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1968 Event John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession 1968 Event Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 1954 Event Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal 1953 Event Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb 1945 Event U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan 1944 Event U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese 1936 Birthday Joanna Dunham, actress, Possession, House the Dripped Blood 1925 Event KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy 1921 Birthday Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor, Possession 1913 Event Greece formally takes possession of Crete 1906 Event Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession 1899 Event U.S. takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific 1885 Event German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland 1884 Event German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon 1880 Event Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo 1874 Event Fiji becomes a British possession 1867 Event U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia 1867 Event Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession 1806 Event Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1766 Event Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French 1680 Event Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fe from Spanish 1638 Event Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited) 1558 Event Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French 1521 Event Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St. Lazarus
