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2005 Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq

1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton

1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial

1997 Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris

1997 Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins

1997 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial

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

1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death

1996 Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76

1995 O. J. Simpson trial sent to the jury

1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA

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

1994 Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson

1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California

1991 U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins

1991 U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins

1990 Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial

1990 Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury

1988 North subpoenas Reagan and Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial

1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia

1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins

1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

1982 Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins

1981 French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run

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

1977 Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)

1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart

1974 Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington D.C.

1973 Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C.

1971 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar

1971 Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial

1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins

1970 John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70

1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial

1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins

1969 Erin Hartwell, Philadelphia, time trial cyclist, Olympic-bronze/silver-92, 96

1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

1965 Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress, Earth II, Homefront, Trial and Error

1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany

1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends

1965 Kinderstraf trial starts

1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins

1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy

1961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial

1961 After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem

1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow

1959 Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in New York City

1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising

1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin

1950 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague

1950 Lance Ito, judge, O. J. Simpson trial

1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial

1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins

1948 Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City

1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam

1947 Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vonte begins

1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg

1946 Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial

1945 Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins

1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany

1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg

1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg

1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial

1944 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins

1944 Patrick Sercu, born in Belgium, 1K time trial 1964 Olympic gold

1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration

1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins

1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague

1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80

1937 Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside

1937 Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge

1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow

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

1933 Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens

1932 Arthur L Liman, New York City, trial lawyer, Oliver North

1931 Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62

1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st

1926 Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37

1925 William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65

1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism

1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial

1924 Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40

1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins

1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago

1920 Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator

1914 Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in New York City

1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France

1883 Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia, author, Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika

1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination

1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins

1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City

1873 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones

1871 Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins

1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury

1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

1857 Clarence Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial

1831 1st practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania

1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins

1803 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32

1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins

1798 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1778 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass

1771 Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38

1771 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer

1732 Jean-Claude Trial, composer

1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery

1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague

1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1568 Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart

1535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason

1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague

1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague

1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc


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