{"slug": "alger-hiss", "label": "Alger Hiss", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549966", "qid": "Q549966", "description": "American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union (1904–1996)", "entries": 15, "years": 7, "span": [1904, 1996], "span_label": ["1904 CE", "1996 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-york-state", "label": "New York (state)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-department-of-justice", "label": "United States Department of Justice", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1904, "year_label": "1904 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government official, author and lecturer (died 1996)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373337754#November", "title": "1904", "revid": 1373337754, "section": "Births › November"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – American official Alger Hiss is congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing the positions of the Western powers and the Soviet Union closer to each other at the Yalta Conference.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#March", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – Whittaker Chambers appears under subpoena before the HUAC and alleges that several former U.S. Federal officials were communists, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#August", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before the HUAC, to deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#August", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 – The HUAC holds a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#August", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – The HUAC holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring \"Confrontation Day\" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#August", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states that Alger Hiss was a communist on Meet the Press radio.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#August", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers, for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#September", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#November", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss, on two counts of perjury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#December", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – The first trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York City, with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness for the prosecution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#May", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – The second trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York, again with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#November", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – In the United States, suspected spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#January", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#July", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Alger Hiss, 92, American State Department official and alleged spy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364846807", "title": "Deaths in November 1996", "revid": 1364846807, "section": "Deaths › November"}}]}