Crime & Justice in the 20th century

1,513 sourced entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE, oldest first. Also see Crime & Justice across every century or everything else in the 20th century.

1900March 27 — Li Hongzhang, Viceroy of Liangguang, provinces reported to the central government that some of the gangsters in Hong Kong wanted to attack the provincial capital, and secretly demanded that the Governor of Hong Kong to ban.China source
1900July 1 – Gen. Artemio Ricarte and his companion are arrested by the civil guards in Manila following reports of his planned insurgency. Ricarte would be deported to Guam the following year.Philippines source
190016 August – A German excavation at the Tel Amran ibn Ali, near the Babylonian temple at Etemenanki (near modern Al Hillah, Iraq), German excavators unearth a glazed amphora with 10,000 coins dating from the 7th century BC.Germany source
190027 October – Notorious murderer Jimmy Governor is apprehended near Wingham, New South Wales.Australia source
1900Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at WorkBelgium source
1900Wellington Cup winner: Djin DjinNew Zealand source
1900Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow.Scotland source
1900The Tramp and the Crap Game silent film is released.United States source
1901July 1 – The first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry.source
19012 August – Deposits of coal discovered at As in the province of LimburgBelgium source
1901October 22 – The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Naples, presided by senator Giuseppe Saredo, that investigated corruption and bad governance in the city of Naples presents its report. The inquiry unearthed a serious situation of corruption, clientelism and general inefficiency and an extensive political patronage system, the so-called "administrative Camorra" or "high Camorra"; the corrupt class of Neapolitan executive in charge of city governments between the 1880s and 1890s. The commission was established in November 1900. The Saredo Commission's report discredited the Liberal politicians of Naples, who were voted from office in the local elections of November 1901.Italy source
1901October 29 – In Amherst, New York, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine; she will confess to at least 31 killings.source
1901October 29 – In Amherst, New Hampshire, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine; she will confess to at least 31 killings.United States source
19015 November – Revenue wins the Melbourne Cup.Australia source
1901December 22 – On Peace Sunday Charles Frederic Aked (1864–1941), a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth; the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.South Africa source
1901Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) – 3rd titleNew Zealand source
1901Easter (Påsk), play by August Strindberg.Sweden source
1901The Dau Wynne – A Maid of CymruWales source
19026 January – Lars Hertervig, painter (born 1830)Norway source
1902March 10 – A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology.source
1902August 1 – The conviction of the former Deputy from Palermo, Raffaele Palizzolo, for the murder in 1893 of Emanuele Notarbartolo, former mayor of Palermo and former director general of the Banco di Sicilia, is hailed as a big blow against the Sicilian Mafia. The Assize Court in Bologna convicted Palizzolo and two others to 30 years of imprisonment.Italy source
1902August 24 – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the French town which she stormed in 1429.source
190224 August – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the town which she stormed in 1429.France source
190213 September – Harry Jackson becomes the first British person to be convicted on the basis of fingerprint evidence.United Kingdom source
1902October 10 – Altona schoolhouse shootingCanada source
1902October 16 – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, U.K.source
1902November 30 – The second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is captured after a shootout with lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is sentenced to a $5,000 fine and 20 years hard labor for robbery but escapes custody in 1903.source
1902November 30 – On the American frontier, the second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is captured after a shootout with lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is sentenced to a $5,000 fine and 20 years hard labor for robbery but escapes custody in 1903.United States source
1902James White wins the Wynne Prize with his bronze sculpture In Defence of the FlatAustralia source
1902Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial HuntsmenWales source
1903July 1 - Shanghai Municipal Police transferred six people, including Zhang Binglin, to the public for review. (:zh:蘇報案)China source
1903July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.Wales source
19032 August – Pittencrieff Park is gifted to the people of Dunfermline by Andrew Carnegie.Scotland source
190314 August – first Poor Prisoners' Defence Act provides for limited legal aid in criminal cases with effect from 1904.United Kingdom source
190317 August – Hans Gude, painter (born 1825)Norway source
1903September 3 – Los Angeles real estate investor Griffith J. Griffith shoots his wife in the face at the Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica.United States source
1903The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Julius Paulsen for the painting Portrait of a Lady (Et dameportræt).Denmark source
1903Lightweight – A. Farquharson (Dunedin)New Zealand source
190412 January – Melbourne businessman Alfred Felton leaves a large bequest to the Art Gallery of Victoria.Australia source
1904January 16 – Rosa Luxemburg is sentenced to 3 months in prison for lese majeste (election campaign in 1903).Germany source
1904June 28 – The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.source
1904Summer – Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered the starting point of Fauvism.source
1904September 10 – American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robberyCanada source
1904October 13 – Pavlos Melas is encircled at Statista and killed during the Macedonian Struggle.source
1904November — The leader of the Guangxi revolt is captured by Imperial forcesChina source
1904December 2 – The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a run on the banks; the attempt fails, and the executive committee is arrested.source
1904Hôtel Hannon, an Art Nouveau villa in Saint-Gilles, designed by Jules Brunfaut for Édouard HannonBelgium source
1904The secret Abhinav Bharat Society is founded by extremist Vinayak Damodar SavarkarIndia source
1904Middleweight – J. Griffin (Greymouth)New Zealand source
1904Thirty-six Class 11 2-8-2 Mikado type locomotives.South Africa source
1905February 1 – U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon is indicted by a federal grand jury on charges arising from a scandal involving land grants in the state and illegally using his influence for private clients.source
1905March 10 – In Cleveland, Ohio, Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in prison for fraud.United States source
1905July 15 – The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, is introduced in France.source
1905October 13 – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party (UK) rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.source
190513 October – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.United Kingdom source
1905October – Fauvist artists, led by Henri Matisse and André Derain, first exhibit their works, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.source
1905October – The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.France source
1905Pathé Frères colors black and white films by machine.source
1905Gédéon Bordiau and Charles Girault, Arcade du Cinquantenaire, BrusselsBelgium source
1905Smarthavicharam of Kuriyedathu Thatri.India source
1905Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) – 4th titleNew Zealand source
1905Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - At the Grave, Op. 61Russia source
1905Gwyneth Vaughan - O Gorlannau'r DefaidWales source
1906February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin HartCanada source
1906April 25 – Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party under the leadership of Leo Kereselidze successfully robs the Dusheti treasury of the Russian Empire, one of the largest expropriations of the time.source
190629 April – Belgium national football team play against Netherlands national football team at Antwerp, winning 5–0. Robert De Veen scored a hat-trick in the second half.Belgium source
1906June 6 – Murder of Gennaro Cuocolo and his wife, Maria Cutinelli, suspected of being police informers, and opposing the leadership of the Camorra. The murder case would develop into one of the most complicated legal cases of the early twentieth century in Italy against the Camorra.Italy source
1906July 11 – Murder of Grace Brown, a factory worker whose killing causes a nationwide sensation.United States source
190622 September – Carlton wins the VFL grand final, beating Fitzroy 15.4 (94) to 6.9 (45).Australia source
1906October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.source
19065 November – Frits Thaulow, painter (born 1847)Norway source
1906Bantamweight – B. Tracy (Wellington)New Zealand source
1906Arthur Machen – The House of SoulsWales source
190727 February – The Old Bailey criminal court opens in London.United Kingdom source
1907June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.source
1907July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.source
1907July 15 – Former Minister of Public Instruction, Nunzio Nasi, is imprisoned on charges of embezzling USD 300,000.Italy source
1907September 22 – Uruguay abolishes capital punishment.source
1907October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.United States source
19072 November – A film adaptation of Robbery Under Arms is released.Australia source
1907Léon Spilliaert, Self-PortraitBelgium source
1907Gaston Leroux - Le mystère de la chambre jauneFrance source
1907Chamois deer, six does and two bucks from Neuberg in Austria, are introduced to the country and released in the Aoraki / Mount Cook area as a hunting resource.New Zealand source
1907Chair – Thomas Davies, "John Bunyan"Wales source
190828 January – Municipal Library Elevator CoupPortugal source
1908January 30 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.South Africa source
1908February 1 – Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Prince Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.source
1908April 5 – Cyrille Van Hauwaert from Belgium wins the 2nd Milan–San Remo.Italy source
1908May – the trial of the Alipore bomb case commences (and continues until 1909)India source
19088 September – Former Minister of Justice Peter Adler Alberti turns himself in to the police for embezzlement of DKK 18 million (roughly DKK 1 billion as of 2006).Denmark source
1908November 6 – Western bandits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of soldiers. There are many rumors to the contrary however, and their grave sites are unmarked.source
1908Flori van Acker, Portrait of Godelieve du Bus de GésigniesBelgium source
1908Middleweight – J. Smith (Auckland)New Zealand source
1908Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena)Spain source
1909February 25 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.South Africa source
1909June 18 – The strangled body of missionary Elsie Sigel is discovered in a trunk in New York City's Chinatown.United States source
1909July 13 – Gold is discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.Canada source
19096 October – Martha Rendell becomes the last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.Australia source
1909November 7 – Giovanni Cuniolo wins the 5th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.Italy source
190921 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (born 1851)Norway source
1909Henri Van Dievoet, Hotel Astoria, BrusselsBelgium source
1909Men: Arthur Duncan (Wellington) – 6th titleNew Zealand source
1910March 10 – Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is made illegal.source
191020 May – Oscar Wergeland, painter (born 1844).Norway source
1910July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec CityCanada source
191020 August - Crime of Cuenca: The disappearance of José María Grimaldos López leads to the arrest and imprisonment of two men. Grimaldos turns up, alive, in 1926.Spain source
1910November 6 – The Italian rider Giovanni Micheletto wins the 6th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.Italy source
1910November 23 – Murderer Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.Sweden source
1910December 12 – New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the police until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.United States source
191018 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.Wales source
1910New Zealand Trotting Cup: Wildwood Junior – 2nd winNew Zealand source
1911March 11 – Start of the Cuocolo Trial in Viterbo. The trial was ostensibly to prosecute those charged with the murder of the Camorra boss Gennaro Cuocolo and his wife in 1906, but was transformed into a trial against the Camorra, intending to use it to strike the final blow to the criminal organisation. The verdict was delivered on 8 July 1912.Italy source
191125 March - murder of Andrei Yushchinsky, a student of the preparatory class of the Kiev Sophia religious school. The authorities (including the Minister of Justice) put pressure on the investigation and contributed to the adoption of a religious-ritual version of the murder. The Jew Mendel Beilis was accused of the crime, but the jury acquitted him. The murder investigation and the ensuing trial, known as the "Beilis case", were widely covered in the Russian and world press.Russia source
1911August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the painting is returned in 1913.source
191111 September – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, buys the ruined Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull to restore as the seat of the Clan Maclean.Scotland source
1911October 7 – Outlaw Elmer McCurdy and "associates" are chased after trying to rob a train in Oklahoma. McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified. Afterwards his remains serve as sideshow attractions in carnivals until 1976 when they are diagnosed by forensic experts to be McCurdy. McCurdy's body is finally buried in 1976 after a 65-year odyssey to the grave.United States source
1911Autumn In France by Emily Carr.Canada source
1911A Victim of the Mormons, directed by August BlomDenmark source
1911Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield against South Auckland (21–5) and Poverty Bay (29–10)New Zealand source
1911Chair - William Roberts, "Iorwerth VII"Wales source
1912June 9 – The Villisca axe murders take place in Villisca, IowaUnited States source
1912July 12 – The Cuocolo Trial against the Camorra reaches a verdict. After often tumultuous 17 months, the 47 defendants that included 27 leading Camorra associates were sentenced to a total of 354 years' imprisonment. Enrico Alfano, the main defendant and alleged head of the Camorra, was sentenced to 30 years.Italy source
191226 July – Elise Sem was authorized as the first female barrister in NorwayNorway source
191212 October – Three kākāpō are released on Kapiti Island.New Zealand source
1912December 6 – The Nefertiti Bust was found at Amarna by the German Oriental Company (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft – DOG), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.Germany source
1912Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Prince Leopold of BelgiumBelgium source
1912Ecuadorian presidential election, 1912Ecuador source
1912Moscow Art Theatre production of HamletRussia source
1913February 23 – Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police, the Okhrana, in Petrograd, and exiled to Siberia.source
1913March 30 – The Belgian rider Odile Defraye wins the 7th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.Italy source
1913April 26 – Mary Phagan is raped and strangled on the premises of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. Leo Frank is tried and convicted for the crime.United States source
191311 May – Wilhelm Münter Rolfsen, lawyer.Norway source
19134 June – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later on 8 June, never having regained consciousness.United Kingdom source
1913September 7–8 – The Fourth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association (the last occasion on which Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud will meet) takes place in Munich.source
191330 October: The first "special constables" arrive in Wellington.New Zealand source
1913November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.source
19136 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.India source
1913December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested.source
1913Between the two Balkan Wars, a group of Bulgarian teachers and priests including teacher Gligor Zisov are deported by the newly established Greek authorities to Bulgaria but killed by Greek soldiers.source
1913Australia Calls, Raymond Longford's last film for Cozens Spencer was released.Australia source
1913Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić released the children's book The Brave Adventures of Lapitch (Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića) in Zagreb.Croatia source
1914March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez's painting Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery, with a meat chopper.source
191410 March – suffragette Mary Richardson damages the Velázquez painting the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.United Kingdom source
1914April 5 – The Italian rider Ugo Agostoni wins the 8th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.Italy source
19148 April–9 May - St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournamentRussia source
1914April 14–18 – The first International Criminal Police Congress is held in Monaco; 24 countries are represented, including some from Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the Dean of the Paris Law School is president.source
1914July 25 – Serbia responds to the ultimatum from the 23rd accepting some but not all of Austria-Hungary's demands. In response Austria-Hungary severs diplomatic ties with Serbia and begins to mobilise its own forces. Radomir Putnik, Chief of the Serbian General Staff, is arrested in Budapest, but subsequently allowed to return to Serbia.source
191428 July – Henriette Caillaux, wife of minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of the murder of Gaston Calmette by reason of crime passionnel.France source
1914July – Militant suffragette Fanny Parker is arrested while attempting (probably with Ethel Moorhead) to set fire to Burns Cottage, Alloway.Scotland source
1914August 8 – German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba, for high treason.source
1914August – Author Ivo Andrić arrested in Split because of his support for Young Bosnia. Convicted for high treason by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, he is imprisoned and eventually released in July 1917.Croatia source
1914New Zealand Trotting Cup – Win SoonNew Zealand source
1914T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn RhufainWales source
1915January 12 – A Fool There Was premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a femme fatale; she quickly becomes one of early cinema's most sensational stars.source
1915March 28 – The Italian rider Ezio Corlaita wins the 9th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.Italy source
1915June – Armenian genocide: 15,000 civilians from the Ottoman Armenian population of Bitlis are massacred by Ottoman Turks and Kurds.source
1915Armenian genocide: 17,000 civilians from the Ottoman Armenian population of Trebizond are massacred by Ottoman Turks.source
1915August 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta.United States source
191529 August – Einar Tufte-Johnsen, aviation officer (died 1985).Norway source
191527 October – World War I: Glasgow revolutionary socialist anti-war protester John Maclean is arrested for the first time under the Defence of the Realm Act and dismissed from his job as a teacher.Scotland source
1915Patrobas wins the Melbourne CupAustralia source
1915The Golden Road: Lucy Maud MontgomeryCanada source
1915Men's fours champions – N.H. Nash, S. Dixon, F.J. Tasker, J.A. Nash (skip) (Palmerston North Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1915John Cowper Powys - Wood and StoneWales source
1916February 9 (6.00 p.m.) – Tristan Tzara "founds" the art movement Dadaism (according to Hans Arp).source
1916February 11 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control in the United States.source
191621 April – Roger Casement and two others were arrested at Banna Strand, County Kerry, for attempting to land arms and ammunition.Ireland source
1916September 13 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.source
1916September 29-October 5 – Flămânda OffensiveRomania source
1916October 16 – Margaret Sanger opens a family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the U.S., a forerunner of Planned Parenthood. Nine days later, she is arrested for breaking a New York state law prohibiting distribution of contraceptives. This same year, she publishes What Every Girl Should Know, providing information about such topics as menstruation and sexuality in adolescents.United States source
1916October 21 – Friedrich Adler shoots Count Karl von Stürgkh, Minister-President of Austria.source
19162 December – Sydney Twelve: 12 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) convicted in Sydney of conspiring to commit arson and sedition.Australia source
1916Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.Canada source
1916Men's singles champion – E.H. Fountain (Roslyn Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1916Auckland Trotting Cup – Admiral WoodNew Zealand source
1916Chair - J. Ellis Williams, "Ystrad Fflur"Wales source
1917January 28 – The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa.source
1917February 13 – Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for spying.source
191716 March – Governor-General of Finland Franz Albert Seyn is removed from his office and arrestedFinland source
1917April 17 – Leon Trotsky, en route from New York to Russia, is detained in Halifax. He will spend the next month in Amherst Internment Camp before being released.Canada source
191711 May – Andreas Bloch, caricaturist (born 1860)Norway source
1917May 22 – Ell Persons is lynched in Memphis, in connection with the rape and murder of 16-year-old Antoinette Rappal.source
1917July 12 – Bisbee Deportation: The Phelps Dodge Corporation has over 1,000 suspected IWW members from its metal mines deported from Bisbee, Arizona.source
1917July 16–18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in Petrograd; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Finland; Leon Trotsky is arrested.source
1917July 16–July 18 – Clashes in Petrograd in July Days; Lenin escapes to Finland; Trotsky is arrested.Russia source
1917The first Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in Yorkshire, England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until 1981).source
191723 August – start of lockout at Pullars dyeing works in Perth.Scotland source
1917Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1917–1919)Italy source
1917Auckland Trotting Cup – Steel Bell (2nd win)New Zealand source
1917The child serial killer Hilda Nilsson is put on trial.Sweden source
19181 February - USDP representatives in Bavaria, including Kurt Eisner, are arrested for their involvement in the Januarstreik.Germany source
191814 March – Eva Andén is elected the first female member of the Swedish Bar Association.Sweden source
1918March 25 – Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act, and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.source
1918April 21 – Canadian Captain Roy Brown (209 Squadron, RAF) supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.Canada source
1918May 23 – First victims of the "axeman of New Orleans" in a 17-month series of brutal murders mainly directed at Italian American shopkeepers and their families; the serial killer is never identified.United States source
1918June 22 – Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.source
1918July 17 – Execution of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party, and carried out by the Cheka, former emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei and retainers are shot at the Ipatiev House, in Ekaterinburg, Russia.source
1918December 16 – Mackansen arrested in BudapestHungary source
1918Kjøbenhavns Boldklub wins the 1917–18 Danish National Football Tournament by defeating Randers Freja 5–2 in the final.Denmark source
1918Men's fours champions – W. Robson, J. Spinks, E. Falconer, C.R. Smith (skip) (Otago Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1918Dan Weggeland, artist (born 1827)Norway source
19198 January – Strike leader Paul Freeman was arrested outside of Dobbyn, Queensland, sparking a chain of events that would lead to his deportation.Australia source
1919February 21 – Communist leaders arrested. Béla Kun is beaten up and imprisonedHungary source
1919February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (born 1848)Canada source
1919March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes United States Attorney General, through recess appointment.source
1919April 10 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead in Morelos.source
1919April 12 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.source
1919April 25 – Pancho Villa takes Parral, Chihuahua, in Mexico, and executes the mayor and his two sons.source
191925 May: Francisco "Pancho" Villa takes the town of Parral, Chihuahua, and hangs the mayor.Mexico source
1919July 31 – British police strikes in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.source
191912 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.Germany source
1919November 7 – The first of the Palmer Raids is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution: over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities by the end of January 1920.source
1919November 10 – Abrams v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction of Abrams for inciting resistance to the war effort against Soviet Russia.source
191922 November – Salem Hanna Khamis, Palestinian statistician and UN official. (died 2005)British-administered Palestine source
1919Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1917–1919)Italy source
1919Wellington Cup – Red Ribbon / Rewi Poto (dead heat)New Zealand source
1920January 9 – Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley climbs New York City's Woolworth Building. He reaches the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit.United States source
1920January 14 – Chava Flores, musical chronicler Álbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (died August 5, 1987)Mexico source
1920May 24 – Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City; all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president.source
1920June 15 – Duluth lynchings: Three African American circus workers are sprung from jail, subjected to a kangaroo court and hanged by a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota, in the northern United States.source
1920July 26 – Anti-semitic paramilitary attacks guests at Club Kávéház, kill 2 peopleHungary source
1920September 22 – The London Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad, a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.source
1920December – Madge Easton Anderson becomes the first woman admitted to practice as a professional lawyer in the UK when she qualifies as a solicitor (law agent) in Scotland.Scotland source
1920O Crime de Cravinhos, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Rodolfo Arena.Brazil source
1920Identification of Prisoners ActIndia source
1920Wellington Cup – Kilmoon / Oratress (dead heat)New Zealand source
1920Helge Løvland, won the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon.Norway source
1921January 17 – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "sawing a woman in half" is given by English stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London.source
192112 May – The police arrest the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party, initiating the Dealul Spirii Trial.Romania source
1921June 3 – The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.source
1921July 14 – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial whose verdict will spark protests around the world.source
192116 September - Prónay briefly arrests Antal LehárHungary source
192130 December – Twelve-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered in Melbourne, in what becomes known as the Gun Alley Murder.Australia source
1921Um Crime no Parque Paulista, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola TartaglioneBrazil source
1921Willum Nielsen wins silver in Men's amateur road race.Denmark source
1921Dr. Eugen Schiffer (SPD) – Minister of JusticeGermany source
1921Auckland Trotting Cup – Man O' War (2nd win)New Zealand source
192110th Russian Communist Party CongressRussia source
192223 January – The Dealul Spirii Trial of members of the Communist Party commences.Romania source
1922March 10 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.source
1922March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).source
192218 March – Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.India source
1922March 31 – Six die in the Hinterkaifeck murders north of Munich.source
19221 April - Arnon Street killings: Members of the police force murder six Belfast Catholic civilians in a revenge attack for the previous killing of a police officer.Northern Ireland source
192212 May – Fascist concentration in Ferrara of 40,000 militants led by Italo Balbo and backed by the agrarian associations. The "fascist strike" of the workers is proclaimed. The aim of the event is to press on the Government to launch a plan for the construction of public works in the province.Italy source
1922May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.source
1922The last hunted California grizzly bear is shot.source
1922November 17 – Rand Rebellion strikers Samuel Long, Herbert Hull and David Lewis are hanged for murder.South Africa source
1922December 11 – The trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to hang.source
1922December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Coco Chanel.source
192211-18 February - Modern Art Week is held in São Paulo, marking the beginning of Brazilian Modernism.Brazil source
1922Rudolf Oeser (German Democratic Party (DDP)) – Interior MinisterGermany source
1922Men – Arthur Duncan (Wellington) (his ninth title)New Zealand source
1923April 1 – Safety Last!, a silent romantic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, is released.United States source
1923August 31 – The Italian navy occupies Corfu, in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests, and the occupation ends on September 30.source
1923September 7 – At the International Police Conference in Vienna, the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), better known as Interpol, is set up.source
1923September 16 – Amakasu Incident: The feminist Noe Itō and her partner, the anarchist Sakae Ōsugi are beaten and killed by a police squadron led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, along with Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew, and their bodies disposed in a well. Following countrywide outcry, Amakasu was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years in prison.Japan source
192310 October – Susan Newell (born 1893) undergoes judicial hanging at Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, for infanticide, the last woman to suffer capital punishment in Scotland (and the first for 70 years in Glasgow).Scotland source
1923November 1 – The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labor spies. Rioting and looting take place in Melbourne city centre.source
19231 November – The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labour spies. Rioting and looting takes place in the Melbourne city centre.Australia source
19239 November – In the Beer Hall Putsch, key members of the Nazi Party and their sympathizers, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Erich Ludendorff, attempt a coup against the German government. The coup attempt is crushed and fifteen Nazis are killed by the Bavarian Landespolizei. The killed would-be putschists are later designated as the movement's key "blood martyrs". The Blutfahne used during the coup attempt becomes a key artifact of Nazi party mythology.Germany source
1923November 11 – Adolf Hitler is arrested for his leading role in the Beer Hall Putsch.source
1923João da Mata, directed by and starring Amilar AlvesBrazil source
1923Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921)Canada source
1923Auckland Cup – Te Kara / Muraahi (dead heat)New Zealand source
1924January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.source
192412 January – Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart – he is arrested soon after.India source
192427 January – Lenin is buried in the Lenin's Mausoleum at the Red SquareSoviet Union source
192426 February – The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.Germany source
1924April 1 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months).source
192413 May – Trond Johansen, intelligence officer.Norway source
1924May 30 – Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.source
192424 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1924October 25 – Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 21/2 years.source
1924November 10 – The Trial of the 149 begins in Estonia, eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu.source
1924December 19 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover.source
1924Miss Collins, a portrait of Gladys Neville Collins by William Beckwith McInnes is awarded the Archibald PrizeAustralia source
1924Gigolete, directed by Vittorio Verga and starring Augusto AníbalBrazil source
1924The Ranfurly Shield is held and defended by Hawkes Bay all seasonNew Zealand source
1925March 2 – In an appeal originating in a Prohibition era bootlegging case, Carroll v. United States is decided in the Supreme Court, affirming the motor vehicle exception, that a warrantless search of an automobile does not contravene the Fourth Amendment, subject to probable cause and exigent circumstances.United States source
192512 April – Sheikh Said was arrestedTurkey source
1925April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany.source
1925April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.source
1925July 10–21 – Scopes trial: in a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a (state-mandated) textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow.source
192519 July – Lucien Buysse comes second in the 1925 Tour de FranceBelgium source
1925August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.source
19251 September – Thomas Blamey becomes Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.Australia source
1925October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.source
1925November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.source
192529 December – Alexander Munro MacRobert appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing David FlemingScotland source
1925La Mujer de medianoche, directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Paulo BenedettiBrazil source
1925Men's fours champions – H. J. Wernham, F. T. Wilson, A. C. McIntyre, R. N. Pilkington (skip) (Hamilton Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1925A single Class GG 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt on fast mainline passenger service.South Africa source
1926February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years.source
19261 March – Modern criminal codeTurkey source
1926May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach. She reappears nearly a month later claiming to have been kidnapped.source
19266 June - Campeonato de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1926September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world.source
192610 October –Muin Bseiso – Palestinian poet. (died 1984)Mandatory Palestine source
1926November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.source
1926November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy.source
1926November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested.source
1926December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a Harrogate hotel.source
192616 December – Philipp Scheidemann of the Social Democratic Party reveals that the Reichswehr is secretly working with the Soviet Red Army and anti-republican groups in Germany.Germany source
1926Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, AntwerpBelgium source
1926Corações em Suplício, directed by Eugenio Centenaro KerriganBrazil source
1926Good Conduct Prisoners Probational Release ActIndia source
1926Royal County Down Golf Club bring in Harry Colt to make further improvements to the course.Northern Ireland source
19277 March – End of the Independence TribunalsTurkey source
1927April 27 – The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.source
1927May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in London.source
192712 May – During the Arcos Affair, British police officers raid the headquarters of ARCOS in London.Soviet Union source
192712 June - Campeonato de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1927June 13 – Léon Daudet, the leader of the French monarchists, is arrested in France.source
1927René Magritte, The Enchanted Pose; The Meaning of Night; The Menaced AssassinBelgium source
1927Rien que les heures, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti on location in FranceBrazil source
1927Men's pair champions – A. Brakebush, M. Walker (skip) (Auckland Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1927Desenuri tragice (Tragic Sketches), a short story collection by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu.Romania source
1927Thirteen Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.South Africa source
192821 January – Nikolai Astrup, painter (born 1880)Norway source
1928March 15 incident: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1,000 people.source
1928March 15 – March 15 incident: Alarmed by gains made by socialists and communists in the 1928 general election, the conservative government of Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka ordered the mass arrest of known communists and socialists and suspected communist and socialist sympathizers. The arrests occurred throughout Japan, and a total of 1652 people were apprehended.Japan source
192818 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.Soviet Union source
19288 July – Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum.China source
192829 July – Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-MerBelgium source
1928August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he has committed multiple murders, rapes and other major crimes.source
1928August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v Stevenson.source
1928Arthur Streeton wins the Wynne Prize with his landscape Afternoon Light, Goulburn ValleyAustralia source
1928Men's fours champions – F. Kettle, V. Langley, D. Hutchison, W. Foster (skip) (Caledonian Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1928The first Schweizeische Ausstellung für Frauenarbeit (SAFFA, Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work) takes place in Bern.Switzerland source
192918 January – Sir John Longstaff wins the 1928 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Alexander Leeper.Australia source
19298 February – A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader Éamon de Valera to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.Northern Ireland source
1929February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion.Belgium source
19298 March – Litla-Hraun prison establishedIceland source
19292 May – Anders Svor, sculptor (born 1864)Norway source
1929May 13 – The National Crime Syndicate is founded in Atlantic City.United States source
1929October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.source
1929December – New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe popularizes Bingo after coming across the game of "Beano" in Atlanta, Georgia. After someone accidentally yells "bingo" instead of "beano" with a group of friends in Brooklyn, New York, he begins production of the game, going on to develop more than 6,000 card combinations under the E. S. Lowe company, as the popularity of the game grows to become a national pastime.source
1929Sangue Mineiro, directed by Humberto MauroBrazil source
1929Men's pair champions – A.G. Kinvig, F. Laurenson (skip) (Linwood Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1930April 11 – Anglo-Indian hunter Jim Corbett shot the second of the man-eating tigers of Chowgarh.source
193013 April – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu forms the Iron Guard out of the far right Legion of the Archangel Michael as a larger paramilitary organisation.Romania source
19309 May - An elephant from the Monmouth mop fair escapes, and wades in the River Monnow before recapture.Wales source
193022 June – The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of SaxonyGermany source
1930August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. They are hanged; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States.United States source
1930October 14 – Ståhlberg kidnapping: The former and first President of Finland, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement but released unharmed.source
193025 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.Soviet Union source
193020 December – R v Betts and Ridley: a landmark case in English criminal law which establishes that it is not necessary for an accessory actually to be present when an offence is carried out in order to be convicted of a crime.United Kingdom source
19304–5 May – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again.India source
1930New Zealand Trotting Cup – WracklerNew Zealand source
1931March 23 – Indian revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for conspiracy to murder in the British Raj.source
1931March 25 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with sexual activity.United States source
19311–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.Soviet Union source
193127 April – Vera Louise Holmøy, judgeNorway source
1931May 8 – Prosecution of Adolf Hitler by Hans Litten for complicity in manslaughter committed by members of the Sturmabteilung at the Tanzpalast Eden ("Eden Dance Palace") in Berlin in 1930 is dismissed.Germany source
193112 September - South Sydney 12 defeat Eastern Suburbs 7 for their tenth NSWRL premiershipAustralia source
1931November 8 – French police launch a large-scale raid against Corsican bandits.source
1931Jorge Amado – O País do Carnaval (The Country of Carnival)Brazil source
1931Helger Harder, Willy Gervin and Anker Meyer-Andersen win gold, silver and bronze in men's sprint at the Amateur event.Denmark source
1931Canterbury: Rangers, Nomads (shared)New Zealand source
1932February 11 — Murder of Liu MengyingChina source
1932March 1 – Lindbergh kidnapping: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. On May 12 he is found dead just a few miles away.source
1932April 6 – The trial of fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin.source
1932April 19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.source
193228 June: The Otago Witness, first published in 1851, produces its last issue.New Zealand source
1932August 9 – Potempa Murder of 1932: In the eastern town of Potempa, five Nazi "Brownshirts" break into the house of Konrad Pietrzuch, a Communist miner, and proceed to castrate and beat him to death in front of his mother.source
1932August 22 – Potempa murder: The five SA men involved in the torture and murder of Konrad Pietrzuch are quickly convicted and sentenced to death under the new law introduced by the Papen government. The Potempa case becomes a cause célèbre in Germany, where some maintain the death sentences are appropriate given the brutality of the torture and murder, whilst Nazis demonstrate for amnesty for the "Potempa five" on the grounds they are patriotic heroes, justified in killing the Communist Pietrzuch, and should not be executed. Hitler sends a telegram congratulating the five and they are released from jail in 1933 after he becomes Chancellor of Germany.source
1932September 2 – Despite the court's sentence of death against the "Potempa five", Chancellor von Papen in his capacity as Reich Commissioner of Prussia refuses to have them executed under the grounds that they were not aware of the emergency law at the time they committed the murder, but in reality because he is still hoping for Nazi support for his government.source
193223 September – Ryutin Affair: Martemyan Ryutin and others in the Union of Marxists-Leninists are arrested.Soviet Union source
1932September 28 – The court of Helsinki sentences Vilho Kallio, Ville Saari and Ida Maria Viden to prison for the Tattarisuo mutilation case.source
1932October – Hergé's Tintin in America (Tintin en Amérique) concludes serial publication and is issued in book format (in black and white) in Belgium.source
1932October – Brazilian Integralism, a Fascist movement, is founded by Plínio Salgado.Brazil source
193213 November - Nahum Rakover, Israeli jurist.Mandatory Palestine source
1932La Nuit du Carrefour (France), Jean Renoir's adaptation of Georges Simenon's La Nuit du carrefour (1931)Belgium source
1932Cycling: individual road race (Attilio Pavesi), road race and team pursuit.Italy source
1932Winter – The Japanese Communist Party make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repressionJapan source
193331 January – Shimon Levinson, Israeli intelligence officer who spied for the KGB.Mandatory Palestine source
1933January – Extensive prosecutions of Communists for treason.India source
19331 March – Hundreds are arrested as the National Socialists round up their political opponents.Germany source
1933April 13 – The Children and Young Persons Act is passed in the United Kingdom. This raises the age of criminal responsibility from 7 to 8, raises the minimum age for capital punishment to 18, places restrictions on the identification in the press of persons under 18 appearing in court, sets a minimum full-time working age of 14 and makes it illegal to sell tobacco products to under-16s.source
1933April 24 – Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in Magdeburg.source
1933April 26 – The Gestapo secret police is established in Nazi Germany by Hermann Göring.source
1933April 27 – The Stahlhelm veterans' organization joins the Nazi party in Germany.source
193326 June – Win 4–2 vs Granville at GranvilleNew Zealand source
1933July 4 – Gandhi is sentenced to prison in India.source
1933August 30 – German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing is shot in Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně), Czechoslovakia, dying the following day.source
1933September 12 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury (London), conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.source
1933October 16 – Parricides committed in the United States by Victor Licata lead to calls for the legal prohibition of cannabis.source
19336 November - Knut Johannesen, speed skater and double Olympic gold medallistNorway source
1933Gilberto Freyre – Casa-Grande e SenzalaBrazil source
1933Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.Soviet Union source
1933Berne Trial is in progress until 1935Switzerland source
193410 January – Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)Netherlands source
1934March 13 – John Dillinger and his gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa, United States, stealing $52,000.source
193427 March – Musa al-Husayni (born 1853), Palestinian Arab politician and leader of the Palestinian Arab national movement from 1922 until 1934. He never recovered from the beating he received from the Palestine Police in Jaffa five months earlier.Mandatory Palestine source
1934April – Teijin Incident: Ministry of Justice ordered the arrest of the Vice-Minister of Finance, director of the Bank of Taiwan and president of TeijinJapan source
1934May 23 – American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by police in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.source
1934June 30 – July 2 – Night of the Long Knives in Germany: Nazis purge the Sturmabteilung (SA), the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, and prominent conservative anti-Nazis, in a series of political murders.source
193430 June – Night of the Long Knives: Nazis purge the SA.Germany source
1934July 14–July 29 – Zürich 1934 chess tournament took placeSwitzerland source
1934September 19 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping case in the U.S.source
1934September 21 — Maria Rubio, actress (died 2018).Mexico source
1934Ayer y Hoy (film), directed by Enrique Telémaco SusiniArgentina source
1934Ballymena Football Club is renamed Ballymena United F.C.Northern Ireland source
1935February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States.source
1935March 11 – The Bank of Canada issues a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portraitCanada source
1935June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.source
1935September 8 – Carl Weiss fatally wounds Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana ("The Kingfish"), in a shooting at the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.United States source
1935September 15 – The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany, removing citizenship from Jews.source
193515 September — The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany. Following an incident of vandalism on the SS Bremen in New York City, the Nazi Party flag emblazoned with the swastika is made the German National Flag on Hitler's orders.Germany source
19352 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing Thomas Mackay CooperScotland source
1935John Longstaff wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Banjo PatersonAustralia source
1935Michel Polak's art deco Eastman Building in BrusselsBelgium source
1935Men's singles champion – Arthur Engebretsen (Napier Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1935The Berne Trial, which began in 1933, endsSwitzerland source
1936March 2–8. Strike action at Polish-Swiss Chocolate Factory Philippe Suchard in Kraków,Poland source
1936May 18 – Sada Abe strangled her lover with an obi and then cut off his genitals to carry around with her as a souvenir. When the crime was discovered the next day it became a national sensation and would be the subject of many books and movies over the decades to follow.Japan source
19365 June – Ana Pauker and eighteen other Communist activists are put on trial in Craiova.Romania source
193625 October – Arnfinn Nesset, nurse and serial killerNorway source
1936October–November - Suiyuan CampaignChina source
1936November 19 and 20 – Buenaventura Durruti, a major Spanish anarchist, is fatally shot in Madrid, dying the following day.source
1936December 12 – Xi'an Incident: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China is kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang.source
1936The Viking Age craftsman's Mästermyr chest is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of Gotland, Sweden.source
1936Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union.source
1936Noites Cariocas, directed and written by Enrique Cadícamo and featuring Grande Otelo.Brazil source
1936The Chatham Cup is won by Western of Christchurch who beat Auckland Thistle 3–2 in the final.New Zealand source
1936Girl Friends – directed by Lev ArnshtamSoviet Union source
1937January 4 - Two plates containing 58 scales are stolen off of the kinshachi (a kind of dolphin fish) affixed to the top of the castle tower of Nagoya Castle. The culprit was apprehended 23 days later.Japan source
1937January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to labor camps and later murdered. They were initially spared for implicating others, including Rykov, Bukharin and Tukhachevsky, setting the stage for further trialssource
1937May 7 - One of the leaders of the communist revolution, Luis Carlos Prestes, is sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison.Brazil source
1937July 1 – The Gestapo arrests pastor Martin Niemöller in Germany.source
193727 July – Hans Dahl, painter (born 1849)Norway source
1937July 31 – NKVD Order No. 00447 "Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов" ("The operation for repression of former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements") is approved by the decision of the Politbureau of the CC of the VKP(b) of the Soviet Union, initially as a 4-month plan for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to the Gulag.source
1937August 9 – The Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38) is signed by Nikolai Yezhov as a continuation of the Great Purge.source
1937October 1 – The Marihuana Tax Act becomes law in the United States.source
1937René Magritte, La Reproduction InterditeBelgium source
1937Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application ActIndia source
1937Canterbury: Technical OB, Western (shared)New Zealand source
1937The Return of Maxim — directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid TraubergSoviet Union source
19371937–38 Nationalliga, won by Grasshopper Club ZürichSwitzerland source
193824 January- Han Fuju was sentenced to death and executed in Wuchang at 7 pm.China source
193815 March – The Soviet Union announces officially that Nikolai Bukharin has been executed.Soviet Union source
193816 April – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, along with other members of the party, is arrested. He is sentenced to ten years prison but shot while allegedly trying to escape on 30 November.Romania source
193828 July – Folk hero Lampião and his band are ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angicos farm, in the state of Sergipe.Brazil source
1938October 2 – Tiberias massacre: Arab raiders murder 19 Jewish immigrants.source
1938October 5 – Nuremberg Laws: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated, and those who need a passport for emigration purposes are given one marked with the letter J ("Jude" – "Jew").source
193828 October — Some 17,000 Polish Jews are arrested by Nazis and deported to Poland, which refuses them entry and leaves them stranded on the border of the two countries.Germany source
193829 October – Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-American director of animated and live-action filmsMandatory Palestine source
1938The last Schomburgk's deer in the wild is said to have been killed.source
1938René Magritte, La Durée poignardéeBelgium source
1938Bunt Rojstów by Józef Mackiewicz,Poland source
1939January 5 – Pioneering U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead, eighteen months after her disappearance.source
193927 March – Abdul Rahim al Hajj Mohammed, a Palestinian leader was ambushed and killed by the British Army.Mandatory Palestine source
1939May 29 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.source
1939June 17 – In the last public execution in France, 6-times murderer Eugen Weidmann is guillotined.source
1939November 4 – Stewart Menzies is appointed head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.source
1939November 9 – WWII: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.source
1939November 17 – WWII: To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis storm the University of Prague and murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1,200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities, an event which will be commemorated as International Students' Day.source
193927 December – Olav Jordet, biathlete, Olympic silver medallist and World ChampionNorway source
193929 December – Police issue a warrant for the arrest of the tycoon Fritz Thyssen who once funded but now opposes the Nazis. He is believed to be in PortugalGermany source
1939Max Meldrum wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of The Hon G J Bell, Speaker of the House of RepresentativesAustralia source
1939René Magritte, The Palace of MemoriesBelgium source
1939Karel Kaers (BEL) and Omer De Bruycker (BEL) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.Denmark source
1939New Zealand Trotting Cup – Lucky Jack (2nd win)New Zealand source
1939Possessed by Witold GombrowiczPoland source
19402 January – The Royal Ulster Constabulary finds 2½ tons of the ammunition stolen in last year's Irish Republican Army Dublin Christmas Raid inside County Armagh.Northern Ireland source
1940July 27 – Eleven British nationals, including Melville James Cox, are arrested on suspicion of spying for military intelligence by the secret police in Japan. Cox commits suicide in Tokyo on July 29, according to a report by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.source
1940August 5: Camillien Houde, the mayor of Montreal, is arrested for sedition due to his anti-conscription rhetoricCanada source
1940August 20 – Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.source
1940September 12 – In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals, and date to the Stone Age.source
1940October 9 – The Lead Singer of The Beatles, John Lennon was born.source
1940October 16 – Nazi Governor-General Hans Frank establishes the Warsaw Ghetto.source
1940November 16 – An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building (only in 1957 later is the culprit, former employee George Metesky, apprehended).source
194025 November – Martial law in the European part of TurkeyTurkey source
1940Max Meldrum wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Dr J Forbes McKenzieAustralia source
1940Argila, directed by Humberto MauroBrazil source
1940Re-entry of Gandhiji in political scene with organisation of individual satyagraha (chose 1500 members) to speak and protest against army entry, against working in ammunition factories etc. to withdraw world war 2 support. First such satyagrahi to be arrested was Vinoba Bhave.India source
1940Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artistMandatory Palestine source
1940The Chatham Cup is won by Waterside who beat Mosgiel 6–2 in the final.New Zealand source
1941March 15 – Berlin-based American journalist Richard C. Hottelet is arrested by the Gestapo on "suspicion of espionage", but eventually released in July as part of a prisoner exchange with the U.S.source
194122 June – 337 left-wing activists arrested to prevent.Belgium source
1941June 28–30 – The Holocaust: Iași pogrom – "At least 13,266" Romanian Jews are massacred by local governmental forces.source
19414 July — The mass murder of Polish scientists and writers is committed by German troops in the captured Polish city of Lwów.Germany source
194119 September – release of O Pai Tirano, film comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro.Portugal source
1941October 5 – The Holocaust: In Berdychiv (Ukraine), 20–30,000 Jews are shot dead.source
19418 October: four police officers and three civilians are shot and killed at Kowhitirangi, near Hokitika, by Stanley GrahamNew Zealand source
1941October 14: Germans took KalininSoviet Union source
1941October 18 – Film The Maltese Falcon is released in the United States, starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston.source
1941November 14 – The Holocaust: In Slonim (Byelorussian SSR), German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews.source
1941December 8 – The Holocaust: The Nazi German Chełmno extermination camp opens in occupied Poland, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof) and the first mass gassing of Jews begins here when the SS use gas vans to murder people from the Łódź Ghetto. Between December 1941–April 1943 and June 1944–January 1945, at least 153,000 Jews will be killed in the camp.source
1941December 19 – Raid on Alexandria: Italian Regia Marina divers on human torpedoes place limpet mines on ships of the British Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet in port at Alexandria, Egypt, disabling battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant.source
1941Conservative candidate Rodolfo Moreno prevails in the elections in Buenos Aires. The opposition denounces electoral fraud.Argentina source
1941The Classic Comics series is launched in the United States, with a version of The Three Musketeers.source
1941William Dargie wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Sir James Elder, KBEAustralia source
1941The Delhi Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1941India source
1942January 10 – Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion become the first female lawyers in QuebecCanada source
1942January – The Lehi underground Zionist group kills two members of the Histadruth.Mandatory Palestine source
1942April 9 – Bataan Death March: American and Filipino prisoners of war are forced to march from San Fernando to Capas (some 65 miles). During the march some 15,000 soldiers are killed by severe physical abuse and wanton killings.source
1942The Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibór opens in occupied Poland, on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór. Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people are killed here.source
194222 May – American soldier Eddie Leonski is arrested and charged for the "Brownout Murders" of three women.Australia source
1942July 16 – The Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000–20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.source
194218 July – Booksellers receive a list of 1,470 titles that they are no longer permitted to stock or sell.Belgium source
1942August 9 – Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay, by British forces.source
1942August – Newly married couple Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi are arrested for their participation in Quit India movement.India source
1942September 26 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issues the August Frank memorandum, setting out how the belongings of "evacuated" (i.e. murdered) Jews are to be disposed of.source
194226 September – Sabotage against Adler Auto Service at Lyngbyvej 26 in Copenhagen.Denmark source
194226 October – All Jewish men in Norway over 15 are arrested; all Jewish property is ordered confiscated. See the Holocaust in Norway for more.Norway source
1942October 28 – Film actor Errol Flynn is accused of statutory rape by two teenage girls.source
1942November 9 – U.S. serviceman Edward Leonski is hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, for the "Brown-Out" murders of three women in May.source
1942New Zealand Trotting Cup: HaughtyNew Zealand source
1943January 22 – The Holocaust: Round up of Marseille begins – Over 4,000 Jews are arrested in Nazi-occupied Marseille as part of "Action Tiger", before being transported to extermination camps in Poland.source
1943January 29 – Nazi German police arrest alleged necrophiliac and serial killer Bruno Lüdke.source
194329 January – Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds the late Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt controlling the Schutzstaffel GestapoGermany source
194312 March – Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (born 1869)Norway source
1943May 29 – Norman Rockwell's illustration of 'Rosie the Riveter' first appears, on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.source
1943July 10 – The Holocaust: Jedwabne pogrom – At least 340 Polish Jews are marched to a local barn, locked inside and subsequently burned to death.source
194316 July – Honoré Van Waeyenbergh, Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for refusing to give the occupying forces access to university enrolment records.Belgium source
1943July 17 – Krasowo-Częstki massacre: The village of Krasowo-Częstki in Nazi-occupied Poland is completely burned and 257 of its inhabitants, mostly women and children, murdered by the Ordnungspolizei and SS in retaliation for German deaths in a skirmish with Polish partisans nearby.source
1943Laboral strike of the meat industry unions.Argentina source
1943October 30 – The Merrie Melodies animated cartoon Falling Hare, one of the only shorts with Bugs Bunny getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.source
1943October 30 – The Merrie Melodies animated short Falling Hare, one of the few shorts with Bugs getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.United States source
19439 November – Walter Schimana becomes the country's HSSPF.Greece source
1943Samba in Berlin, directed by Luiz de Barros and starring MesquitinhaBrazil source
1943Men Open: W. Burton (Gisborne)New Zealand source
1944March 11 - Resistance leader Joop Westerweel is arrested while returning to the Netherlands, having escorted a group of Jewish children to safety in Spain.source
1944March 18 – WWII: The Nazis execute almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist Romanians at Rîbnița.source
1944March 24 – The "Great Escape": 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from Stalag Luft III in Silesia this night. Only 3 men (2 Norwegians and a Dutchman) return to the UK; of those recaptured, 50 are summarily executed soon afterwards, in the Stalag Luft III murders.source
1944April 26 – German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete, Greece.source
1944Shah Mahmud Khan bribes two tribal leaders, Miru and Muhammad Sarwar, to turn 1,000 warriors against Mazrak, prompting his withdrawal to Waziristan as he is unwilling to fight fellow Zadrans. After his departure, Zadran envoys seek peace but are arrested as the government begins repressions.Afghanistan source
1944June 16 – At age 14, African-American teenage boy George Stinney Jr. becomes the youngest person ever executed by electric chair in the United States. His conviction was vacated 70 years later, in 2014, due to him not receiving a fair trial.source
1944July 6 – WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed, for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus (he is eventually acquitted).source
1944August 12 – Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre: The Waffen-SS and Black Brigades paramilitaries murder about 560 civilians and refugees (including more than 100 children) in the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, burn their bodies, and leave their houses semi-derelict.source
194422 August – Men from Tyrone and Fermanagh form an Anti-Partition League in Dublin.Northern Ireland source
1944August 31 – The Mad Gasser of Mattoon apparently resumes his mysterious attacks in Mattoon, Illinois for two weeks.source
1944October 7 – The Holocaust: Members of the Sonderkommando – a special detachment of Jewish prisoners who are forced to empty the gas chambers after a mass gassing and undertake the burning of the bodies – organises the only armed revolt that ever takes place in Auschwitz concentration camp. They succeed in destroying the gas chambers and Crematorium IV. The Waffen-SS murders more than 450 prisoners who take part in the revolt.source
1944October 10 – The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.source
194410 October — Holocaust: Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz death camp.Germany source
1944October 14 – WWII: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits forced suicide rather than face public disgrace and execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.source
1944October 31 – Serial killer Dr Marcel Petiot is apprehended at a Paris Métro station after 7 months on the run.source
19447 November - Lakshmikanthan murder case and ensuing arrest of various prominent figures from Tamil cinema.India source
1944Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos IlhéusBrazil source
1944Otto Tief was captured by Soviet forces; Jüri Uluots and members of the Tief government escaped to Sweden.Estonia source
1944L'Adalgisa (Carlo Emilio Gadda)Italy source
1944Auckland Trotting Cup – Betty BoopNew Zealand source
194516 January – Wildcat strike in the Port of Antwerp over payment of danger money.Belgium source
1945February 9 – Walter Ulbricht becomes leader of the German Communists in Moscow.source
19459 February – Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast was shot by the Gestapo while resisting arrest.Denmark source
1945March 8 – Nazi authorities kill 117 Dutch men in reprisal for the attempted murder of Hanns Albin Rauter.source
1945April 9 – Abwehr conspirators Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster and Hans von Dohnányi are hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp, along with pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other people associated with resistance groups.source
1945April 28 – The bodies of Benito Mussolini, his mistress, Clara Petacci, and other followers are hung by their heels at a gas station in the public square of Milan, Piazzale Loreto, following their execution by Italian partisans after an attempt to flee the country.source
1945May 2 – Expatriate American poet Ezra Pound is arrested by the Italian resistance movement but soon released by them as of no interest; on May 5 he turns himself in to the United States Army and is imprisoned as a traitor.source
1945May 3 – German Protestant theologian Gerhard Kittel is arrested by the French forces in Tübingen, Germany.source
1945May 5 – A Japanese fire balloon kills six people, Elsie Mitchell and five children, near Bly, Oregon, when it explodes as they drag it from the woods. These are the only people killed by an enemy attack on the American mainland during WWII.source
19457 May – Knut Hamsun released his obituary of Adolf Hitler.Norway source
1945May 23 – The Flensburg Government is dissolved by the Allies, and German president Karl Dönitz and German chancellor Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British RAF Regiment personnel at Flensburg. They are respectively the last German head of state and head of government until 1949.source
194523 May – President of Germany Karl Dönitz and Chancellor of Germany Count Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British forces at Flensburg. They are respectively the last German Head of state and Head of government until 1949.Germany source
1945May 28 – U.S.-born Irish-raised William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured on the German border. He is later charged in London with high treason for his earlier English-language wartime broadcasts from German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.source
1945May 29 – Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the "Dutch Golden Age" paintings he has sold to Hermann Göring (Koch) are later proved to be his own fakes.source
1945Interpol (being headquartered in Berlin) effectively ceases to exist (it is recreated on June 3, 1946).source
19455 July – Yosef Shapira, Israeli judge, current State Comptroller of IsraelMandatory Palestine source
1945July 23 – WWII: French marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the Vichy government during WWII, goes on trial for treason.source
1945August 11 – The Holocaust: Kraków pogrom – Róża Berger is shot dead by Polish militia.source
1945September 5 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose", is arrested in Yokohama.source
1945September 5 – Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in many spy rings in North America, both in the United States and in Canada.source
1945September 10 – Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for being a Nazi collaborator in Norway.source
1945October 9 – Former prime minister Pierre Laval is sentenced to death, for collaboration with the Nazis in Vichy France.source
1945October 23 – Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals baseball team.Canada source
1945October 29 – At Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first ballpoint pens go on sale at $12.50 each.source
1945November 20 – The Nuremberg trials begin: Trials against 22 Nazis for war crimes of World War II start at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg.source
1945tribunals begin to condemn thousands of "war criminals" and "enemies of the people" to death or to prisonAlbania source
1945Men's pair champions – J.W. Darroch, L. Russell (skip) (Auckland Bowling Club)New Zealand source
1946January 11 – For the first time since the creation of the People's Court, a person accused of treason, Felix Española, a 66-year-old Makapili from Bulacan, voluntarily pleaded guilty.Philippines source
1946January 22 – The National Intelligence Authority, and its operational arm, the Central Intelligence Group, are established in the United States; these become part of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.source
194618 April – Nahum Manbar, Israeli businessman convicted for selling arms to IranMandatory Palestine source
1946April 29 – Trials against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima.source
194630 June - 1946 Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1946August 14 – September 1 – Datong-Puzhou CampaignChina source
1946August 20: Serial killer Yoshio Kodaira is arrested.Japan source
1946October 15 – Nuremberg trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.source
194628 November – Former Prime Minister Pierre Prüm is sentenced to four years in prison for collaboration with Nazi Germany.Luxembourg source
1946December 22 – The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba.source
1946The first female police officers are hired in Korea and Japan.source
1946Nelson Rodrigues - Álbum de famíliaBrazil source
1946Sultan of Selangor : Sultan Sir Hishamuddin Alam Shah Al-HajMalaya source
1947January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solved.source
194710 March – Ole Wehus, Nazi collaborator and torturer, executed (born 1909)Norway source
1947March 31 – The leaders of the Kurdish People's Republic of Mahabad, the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran, are hanged at Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad, after the state has been overrun by the Iranian army.source
1947April 18 – Mrs. Ples is discovered near Sterkfontein.South Africa source
194714 July – Ion Mihalache and other leaders of the National Peasants' Party are arrested in the Tămădău affair.Romania source
194729 July – The British execute three Irgun members captured during the Acre Prison break. In response, the Irgun hangs the two British hostages kidnapped eighteen days earlier.Mandatory Palestine source
1947October – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into communism in Hollywood.United States source
1947November 16 – In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals.source
1947November 17 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.source
1947November 27 – In Paris, France, police occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers.source
1947Rubber (Production and Marketing) ActIndia source
1947Open Men – W. Burton (Gisborne)New Zealand source
1947Cricket - Wilf Wooller is appointed Captain-Secretary of Glamorgan CCC.Wales source
1948January 26 – Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.source
1948March 17 – The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.source
1948May 15 – The murder of June Anne Devaney a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England. To solve the crime, officers take 46,253 sets of fingerprints before identifying her murderer.source
1948July 15 – The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.source
1948July 20 – Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster and ten other Communist Party USA leaders are arrested and charged under the Alien Registration Act.source
19481 August – General Operations Force was founded as Jungle Squad.Malaya source
1948August 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.source
1948August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before the HUAC, to deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers.source
1948August 13 – Harry Dexter White and Donald Hiss refute allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers, before the HUAC.source
194830 August – The Securitate (Departamentul Securității Statului, Department of State Security) is found.Romania source
1948October 12 – Eli Danker, Israeli actor.Israel source
1948November 1 – The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other CPUSA leaders begins, in New York City.source
19481 December – The body of an unidentified man is found on a beach in Adelaide, becoming known as the Somerton Man.Australia source
1948December 7: Ashida arrested in connection with the Showa Electric scandalJapan source
1948December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss, on two counts of perjury.source
1948December 26 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.source
1948Folias Cariocas, directed by Manoel Jorge and Hélio Thys, starring Dercy Gonçalves.Brazil source
1948The Chatham Cup is won by Technical Old Boys of Christchurch who beat Waterside of Wellington 2–0 in the final.New Zealand source
1948Taiwan Provincial Police Training Facilities became the Taiwan Provincial Police AcademyTaiwan source
194913,14 – Durban riots against IndiansSouth Africa source
194916 March – Australia's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is established, by order of the Directive for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Security Service.Australia source
1949May 7 – A Philippine Airlines C-47 with Daet–Manila flight route explodes in mid-air; all 13 persons on board are reported killed, with only a body later recovered, along with the plane's debris at Alabat Island. The explosion is later revealed being caused by a time bomb which has been planted by a couple. At least four suspects are arrested.Philippines source
1949May 31 – The first trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York City, with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness for the prosecution.source
1949June 8 – Second Red Scare in the United States: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named as Communist Party members in a Federal Bureau of Investigation report.source
1949September 6 – Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Parabellum P.08 pistol, to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.source
1949September 9 – Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery, in Toronto.source
194915 September – The first Romanian identity card (Carte de identitate) is issued, causing concern amongst minorities like the Székelys.Romania source
1949September 24 – László Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.source
1949September 29 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty in the United States of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" at the end of World War II.source
19497 October – Four killed by an Israeli mortar attack on Beit HanunIsrael source
1949October 14 – The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other leaders of the Communist Party USA ends in New York City (the longest trial in U.S. history to this date); all defendants are found guilty and all but one sentenced to five years of prison.source
1949November 17 – The second trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York, again with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness.source
1949December 14 – Traicho Kostov, who until March was acting president of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death for anti-Communist Party activity.source
194931 December - An armed group of Communist Party of India activists killed four Police officers in Travancore–Cochin.India source
1949Open Men – W. Burton (Gisborne)New Zealand source
1949Daniel O'Neill paints Place du Tertre and The Blue Skirt.Northern Ireland source
1950January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.source
1950January 21 – In the United States, suspected spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.source
1950February 8 – The Stasi is founded in East Germany, and acts as a secret police until 1990.source
1950March 1 – Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.source
195028 March – Bodies of three children from 'Abasan, killed by members of Battalion 22 on 16 March, are found in Israel.Israel source
195019 April – With the Decree 92, a huge number of private houses and lands are confiscated.Romania source
1950May 8 – Tollund Man is unearthed in Denmark.source
1950May 11 – The Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime begin.source
195031 May – Vic Toweel defeats World Bantamweight Champion Manuel Ortiz on points over 15 rounds at Wembley Stadium and becomes the first South African world boxing champion.South Africa source
1950June 13 - The three North Korean "peace representatives", who had crossed into South Korea on Saturday, were arrested.North Korea source
1950October 18 – Combined forces of the Military Intelligence Service and the Manila Police Department launch 22 simultaneous raids, resulting to the capture of the entire Huk Politburo in the city.Philippines source
1950November 13 – The President of Venezuela, Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas.source
1950Raid Pyrénéen, a French timed bicycle challenge, is first staged.source
1950Caraça, Porta do Céu, directed by Theodor Luts, starring José Álvaro Morais.Brazil source
1950Residents-Commissioner : Arthur Vincent AstonMalaya source
1950Algodoneros del Unión Laguna win the Mexican League.Mexico source
1951January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment.source
19515–17 January – The very first Vuelta a Colombia is held, beginning in Bogotá on the 5th.On the 17th, Efraín Forero Triviño of Cundinamarca wins.Colombia source
1951February 19 – Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when she and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.source
1951March 6 – The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage begins in the United States.source
1951March 29 – Second Red Scare: In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to death.source
195130 March – The Securitate is reorganised under the name Direcția Generală a Securității Statului (DGSS).Romania source
1951June 7 – Nazi war criminal Otto Ohlendorf is hanged at Landsberg Prison, Bavaria.source
1951July 26 – The first birch bark manuscript is discovered in Novgorod.source
1951October 7 – Asiong Salonga, a popular gangster in Tondo, Manila, is fatally shot by a henchman linked to his rival Carlos "Totoy Golem" Capistrano, also a gang leader, in a drinking spree.Philippines source
195122 November – Rawalpindi Conspiracy trial concluded and the verdict was announced the following year in January.Pakistan source
19514 December – An Israeli woman is abducted in Jerusalem by Palestinian fedayeen, who rape and murder her.Israel source
1951Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.Brazil source
1951Sultan of Selangor : Sultan Sir Hishamuddin Alam Shah Al-HajMalaya source
1951Azules de Veracruz México win the Mexican League.Mexico source
19526 January – 1952 Beit Jala Raid: an attack committed by an unknown Israeli party who blew up several houses in the West Bank town Beit Jala, killing between six and seven Palestinian-Arabs, including two children. According to leaflets distributed in the scene of the crime, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl on 4 December 1951. Israel denied involvement in what it called "this sad affair", and voted to condemn the raid.Israel source
195231 March – Gibalta rail accidentPortugal source
1952April 9 – Santa Teresa Church tragedy: 50 people are trampled to death in the Basilica of St. Teresa, Caracas, Venezuela, after someone shouts "Fire!"; 40 people are arrested in connection with the crush.source
1952April 11 – During the Operation Four Roses, two ranking Huk department members, William J. Pomeroy, an American and also the propaganda chief, and his wife Celia Mariano, along with up to 30 companions, are arrested by the army in a raid at a part of Sierra Madre in Papaya, Nueva Ecija, near its boundaries with the provinces of Bulacan and Quezon.Philippines source
195229 July – Iosif Sîrbu wins Romania's first Olympic gold medal in shooting.Romania source
195219 October - 1952 Albanian Cup: team Dinamo Tirana wins the finals, beating Puna Tirana with a score of 4–1.Albania source
195212 November – Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.Northern Ireland source
1952Tico-Tico no Fubá, directed by Adolfo Celi, starring Anselmo Duarte and Tônia Carrero.Brazil source
1952Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League.Mexico source
1953January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying.source
1953January 15 – British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization.source
195328 February – Near Bayt Jibrin: IDF execute five smugglers from the Gaza Strip.Israel source
1953March 8 – The Thieves World, which has been transformed into the Russian mafia, are freed from prisons by the Malenkov regime, ending the Bitch Wars.source
1953April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising in the British Kenya Colony.source
195325 May – The Singapore Customs Department seized 1.5 tons of opium hidden in a lorry around the Orchard Road area.Singapore source
195328 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1953August 17 – The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California (see October 5).source
1953August 17 - 12 high ranking government officials are arrested and forced to confess to spying for South Korea during the Korean war in a show trial. Lee Sung Yup, the Justice minister is declared to be the ringleader, former Foreign minister Pak Hong Wong and military officer Pae Choi were declared his accomplices.North Korea source
1953October 5 – The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held (the first planning session was held August 17).source
1953December 23 – The Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrentiy Beria has been executed.source
1953Throughout the year, there were 11 recorded instances of propaganda material being smuggled from Albania into Yugoslav territory. Additionally, 15 attempted sabotage operations by Albanian groups were recorded over the course of the year.Albania source
1953The Antonio Nariño and Alejandro Gutiérrez National Police Academies, in Barranquilla and Manizales respectively, open.Colombia source
1953date unknown – The Japanese 10 yen coin is issued with serrated edges for a 5-year period, beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since have had smooth edges.Japan source
1953Saor Uladh, a criminal Republican paramilitary organisation, is formed in County Tyrone by Liam Kelly (who had been expelled from the Irish Republican Army in 1951) and Phil O'Donnell.Northern Ireland source
1954January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.source
195417 March - The young Argentine dancer Nélida Lobato performs at the theatre Bim-Bam-Bum in Santiago.Chile source
1954March 28 – The trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in Communist Romania.source
195431 March – Jewish writer A. L. Zissu is sentenced to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order".Romania source
19546 April – Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced, making it illegal to interfere with the display of a Union Flag and giving the Royal Ulster Constabulary the right to remove any other flag or emblem if it is thought that it might lead to a breach of peace.Northern Ireland source
1954June 22 – Parker–Hulme murder case: Pauline Parker, 16 and her friend Juliet Hulme, 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at Victoria Park in New Zealand.source
195427 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, kill an elderly Israeli farmer on the outskirts of Ra'anana.Israel source
195427 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1954July 15 – Juan Fangio, Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes-Benz, makes a new fastest lap of the Silverstone Circuit in England, with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph.source
195417 November - 1954 Albanian Cup: team Dinamo Tirana wins the finals, beating Partizani with a 2-1.Albania source
1954December 3 – A German court dismisses charges against Werner Naumann, head of the Neo-Nazi Naumann Circle.source
1954The case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes to trial.source
19541954 Campeonato Profesional (April–October)Colombia source
1954The United States defeat Mexico in the Americas Zone final of the Davis Cup.Mexico source
19552 January – Armed Palestinian Arab militants attacked and killed two hikers in the Judean Desert.Israel source
1955July 13 – Ruth Ellis is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.source
1955August 28 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched and shot in the head for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi; his white murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, are acquitted by an all-white jury.source
1955September 3 - Yumiko-chan incidentJapan source
195522 September – To deal with crimes, the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act is passed, allowing for detentions.Singapore source
1955October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea.source
1955December 1 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.source
1955Ariano Suassuna - O Auto da CompadecidaBrazil source
1955American Community School in Amman.Jordan source
1955Residents-Commissioner : Robert Porter BinghamMalaya source
1955The Tigres del México win the Mexican League.Mexico source
195514-16 February – Four Romanian émigrés seize the Romanian embassy in Bern and kill a chauffeur in protest of Romania's communist government.Switzerland source
1956February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years.source
1956March 5 – Enactment of Decree Law 4161/56Argentina source
1956June 4 – Montgomery bus boycott: The related civil suit is heard in federal district court; the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold the ruling in November.source
1956June 13 – The International Criminal Police Organization adopts Interpol as its official name.source
1956June 21 – Playwright Arthur Miller appears before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C.source
1956July 1956 – The Swedish citizen Gunnel Gummeson and her American boyfriend Peter Winant disappear in Afghanistan on their way home from India.Afghanistan source
195625 September – Operation Lulav (מבצע לולב): Following the murder of the participants in an archaeological conference held in Ramat Rachel and the murder of two farmers from Moshav Aminadav and Kibbutz Maoz Haim, IDF forces raid the police fort at Husan, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank (then under the control of Jordan). Thirty-seven Legionnaires and National Guardsmen were killed as well as two civilians. Nine IDF members were also killed.Israel source
1956September plenum of the Central Committee of the WPKNorth Korea source
1956November 13 – Browder v. Gayle: The United States Supreme Court declares illegal the state and municipal laws requiring segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.source
1956November 18 – At a reception for Western ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev utters his famous phrase "We will bury you".source
195618 November – "We will bury you" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.Soviet Union source
1956November 20 – In Yugoslavia, former prime minister Milovan Đilas is arrested after he criticizes Josip Broz Tito.source
1956December 19 – British doctor John Bodkin Adams is arrested for the murder of 2 patients in Eastbourne, England; he will be acquitted.source
195621 December – The Government of Northern Ireland under Basil Brooke uses the Special Powers Act to intern several hundred republican suspects without trial.Northern Ireland source
1956Residents-Commissioner : Robert Porter BinghamMalaya source
19561956–57 Maltese Premier LeagueMalta source
195712 January – Over 100 Irish republican suspects are arrested under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland).Northern Ireland source
1957February 18 – The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.source
19574 March – A few minutes past midnight, Israel Kastner is shot outside his house by Ze'ev Eckstein (who pulled the trigger), Dan Shemer and Yosef Menkes. All three were former members of the pre-state right-wing underground Jewish militant group Lehi. Kastner dies of his injuries twelve days later.Israel source
1957April 17 – Suspected English serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at the Old Bailey.source
19572 July – Osman Bölükbaşı, the chairman of Republican Nation Party was arrestedTurkey source
195721–22 August – Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock launched a series of anti-communist mass arrests under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance known as Operation Apple. About 35 people were detained including the five of the newly elected CEC members and 13 branch officials of the PAP.Singapore source
1957October 16: Farmer Antônio Vilas Boas claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrials. This would become one of the earliest recorded alien abduction cases.Brazil source
1957Albeit the practice was in decline since the late 19th Century, and illegal since 1912, the very last new case of Chinese foot binding was reported this year.source
1957Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" had been summarily liquidated in China between 1949 and 1954.source
1957Henan Experimental Middle School, in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, HenanChina source
1957Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan IbrahimMalaya source
1957The Chatham Cup is won by Seatoun who beat Technical Old Boys 3–1 in the final.New Zealand source
195811 February – Armed Palestinian Arab militants killed a resident of moshav Yanuv who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area.Israel source
1958May 6 – Margaret Rheeder is hanged in Pretoria for poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman.South Africa source
19586 June – The start of a three-day trial of four students who organised a conference to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the crowning of Stephen the Great. They are found guilty and imprisoned until 1964.Romania source
1958June 16 – Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 are hanged for treason, following secret trials.source
1958July 14: An 18-year-old student named Aída Curi, is thrown from the 12th floor of an Avenida Atlântica building by boys in a Copacabana neighborhood.Brazil source
1958Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaya source
1958New Zealand Trotting Cup – False StepNew Zealand source
1958Northern Ireland 0-4 France Northern Ireland knocked outNorthern Ireland source
1958The second Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work takes place in Zürich.Switzerland source
1959January 2 – The Foreign Ministry of Guatemala declares that the three Mexican fishermen killed on December 31, 1958, were "pirates".Mexico source
1959January 12 - In the largest mass execution of former officials since Castro's victory, Cuban communists shot 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista over a seven-hour period, then buried them in a mass grave.Cuba source
195931 January – Sandu Tudor begins a 40-year sentence at Jilava Prison for "conspiracy against the social order" and "intense activity against the working class".Romania source
1959February 5 – The U.S. State Department released tapes that showed that Soviet jets had shot down an unarmed American Lockheed C-130 transport plane on September 2, 1958. Transmissions between the two fighter planes, identified as "201" and "218", had been intercepted in Turkey. The Soviets denounced the tapes as a "clumsy fake". On the same day, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev invited U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit Moscow, adding that he could bring anyone, and go anywhere, he chose. In his speech, Khrushchev referred to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and proclaimed, "Mr. Dulles, if you so desire, then for the sake of ending the Cold War, we are even prepared to admit your victory in this war that is unwanted by the peoples. Regard yourselves, gentlemen, as victors in this war, but end it quickly."Soviet Union source
195927 April – Two Israeli hikers are shot at close range and killed near Masada.Israel source
1959June 23 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.source
195921 September – Nantou shooting in Nantou County.Taiwan source
1959October 7 – On Baghdad's al-Rashid Street, President Abd al-Karim Qasim was ambushed on his way to the East German embassy. The five man team, led by future Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, killed Qasim's driver and wounded Qasim. One assassin died and Saddam himself was injured, but escaped to farm.Iraq source
1959October 29 – First appearance of Astérix the Gaul, in a French comic magazine.source
1959November 15 – The brutal Clutter family murders are committed in Holcomb, Kansas, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966).source
1959Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaya source
196011 March - Bombay High Court overturns Jury trial verdict on Nanavati case and declares him guilty.India source
1960March 23 – Robert Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, Albert Lutuli and 11 others are arrested for incitement of riots.South Africa source
1960April 9 – White gunman David Pratt shoots South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.source
1960May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi German war criminal Adolf Eichmann in order that he can be taken to Israel and put on trial. This is announced on May 23 by Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion.source
196021 May – An El Al flight took off from Buenos Aires at 12:05 a.m., with kidnapped Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann safely on board, to face trial for the Holocaust in Israel.Israel source
1960June 5 – The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.source
1960June 14: A robbery on the payer train of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil takes place in Japeri, Rio de Janeiro.Brazil source
196014 August - Portuguese Grand PrixPortugal source
1960August 17 – The trial of American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow.source
1960August 19 – Cold War: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced in Moscow to 10 years in prison for espionage.source
1960November 1 – Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican-American baseball player (died 2024)Mexico source
1960December 1 – Patrice Lumumba, deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.source
1960Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaya source
1960New Zealand Trotting Cup – False Step (3rd win)New Zealand source
1961January 9 – British authorities announce they have uncovered a large Soviet spy ring, the Portland spy ring, in London.source
196123 January - Santa Maria hijackingPortugal source
1961February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.source
19619 March - 1960-61 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated 1-0 by Romania at Tractorul, BrașovAlbania source
1961April 11 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.source
1961May 8 – British intelligence officer George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying, having been found guilty of being a double agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, the longest non-life sentence ever handed down by a British court.source
1961May 24 – Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.source
1961June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.source
1961August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.source
196113 September - Exhibition of Leningrad artistsSoviet Union source
196115 September – Verdicts (on the Democrat Party (DP) members) pronouncedTurkey source
1961October 12 – The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.source
1961October 31 – Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow.source
1961November 11 – Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.source
1961December 11 – Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity for his part in The Holocaust by a war crimes tribunal of three Israeli judges. On December 15 he is sentenced to death.source
196115 December – An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to death for his part in The Holocaust.Israel source
1961December 20: Adilson Marcelino Alves, known as Dequinha, is arrested by the Rio de Janeiro police and confesses to being responsible for the fire at the Niterói circus.Brazil source
196120 December - The last legal execution in Ireland occurs in Belfast - it is of Robert McGladdery for murder.Northern Ireland source
1961December 30 – Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes).source
1961Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaya source
1962February 12 – Six members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act.source
1962March 2 – Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA basketball game.United States source
1962March 24 – OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is arrested in Oran.source
1962April 7 – Milovan Đilas, author and former vice-president of Yugoslavia is re-arrested.source
1962April 13 – OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is sentenced to death in France.source
1962April 14 – A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers.source
1962April 20 – OAS leader Raoul Salan is arrested in Algiers.source
1962May 14 – Milovan Đilas is given a further sentence in Yugoslavia, for publishing Conversations with Stalin.source
1962May 23 – Raoul Salan, founder of the French terrorist Organisation armée secrète, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.source
196231 May – Adolf Eichmann (born 1906), German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, executed in prison at Ramla, IsraelIsrael source
19623 June - 1962 Albanian parliamentary electionAlbania source
1962June 12 – Alcatraz escape attempt: Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from the Alcatraz Island prison in the United States; it is never confirmed that they make it ashore.source
1962August 5 – Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government near Howick, and charged with incitement to rebellion. On November 7, he is sentenced to imprisonment.source
1962August 17 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin, leading to mass protests on the Western side.source
1962October 13 – Helen Joseph becomes the first person to be placed under house arrest under the Sabotage Act.South Africa source
1962October 22 – John Vassall, a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.source
1962October 26 – Spiegel affair: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.source
1962November 1 – The comic book antihero Diabolik first appears in Italy.source
19621 November – Magne Furuholmen, keyboardist and artistNorway source
1962November 2 – Greville Wynne, a British trader acting as a courier for MI6, is arrested by the KGB in Budapest and imprisoned in Moscow after confessing to espionage.source
1962November 5 – West German defense minister Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel affair due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.source
1962November 26 – Spiegel affair: German police end their occupation of the offices of Der Spiegel.source
1962December 14 – Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.source
1962Australian Open men's singles: Rod Laver defeats Roy Emerson 8–6 0–6 6–4 6-4Australia source
1962Stephen Leacock Award: W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the KidCanada source
1962Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaya source
1962Men's fours champions – W. Humphreys, S. Barlow, H.W. Todd, R. Brown (skip) (Marlborough Bowling Club)New Zealand source
196311 January – The opening of Taipei Prison in Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City).Taiwan source
19632 February – Operation Coldstore was mounted to stop communist influence, resulting in 113 people being arrested.Singapore source
1963April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".source
1963April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist group Front de libération du Québec bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.source
1963June 20 – Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the Soviet Union.source
196330 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1963August 8 – The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.source
1963August 11 – Four of the defendants who had been arrested on 11 July, at the Liliesleaf Farm near Johannesburg, were able to escape their South African jail after a bribe was promised to their guard by the ANC. Harold Wolpe and Arthur Goldreich, who were both white, were confined at Johannesburg's Marshall Square Police Station, in the same cell with Indian South Africans Abdulhay Jassat and Moosa Moolla, separate from the black South African defendants. Their white guard, Johannes Greeff, served three years of a six-year sentence, and later received 2,000 African pounds. Wolpe and Goldreich would elude a nationwide search and, "disguised as priests", make it to Swaziland (which was surrounded by South Africa), and on 8 September, would charter a plane to fly to Tanganyika.South Africa source
1963September 10 – Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).source
1963December 4: Senator Arnon de Melo, who was trying to shoot Senator Silvestre Péricles, shot and killed alternate Senator José Kairala.Brazil source
1963December 7 - Decision on the Ryuichi Shimoda v. The State caseJapan source
196327 December - Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal ShrineIndia source
1963Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
19646 January – The governor of West Pakistan bans opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, and its leader, Abul A'la Maududi, is arrested.Pakistan source
1964February 25 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.source
1964April 16 – In the Assize Court at Buckingham, England, sentences totalling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the Great Train Robbery.source
196417 April - The band Them, fronted by Van Morrison, play their first gig at his rhythm and blues Club Rado at the Maritime Hotel, Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1964April 20 – British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.source
1964April 25 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although the attack is attributed to Jørgen Nash, the Danish media blame painter Henrik Bruun, who never confesses to the crime.source
1964May 2 – Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.source
1964May 23 – Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 mi from Paris.source
1964June 12 – Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.source
19641 July – The establishment of Yunlin District Prosecutors Office in Yunlin County.Taiwan source
1964August 8 – A Rolling Stones gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about fifteen minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police.source
196426 August – Zadok Malka, Israeli footballerIsrael source
1964September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets, including Malay Roy Choudhury, are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state and obscenity in literature.source
19642 September – The second racial riot occurred between Malays and Chinese after the murder of a Malay Trishaw rider. By the time the riots ended, 13 people are killed, with 106 injured.Singapore source
1964October 1 – Three thousand student activists at the University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.source
1964October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth between 1959 and 1963.source
1964October 29 – A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565 carats Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.source
1964Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested in November 1964, held for half a year and sent into exile where he remained for 15 years (mostly in Najaf, Iraq), until the revolution.Iran source
1964Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
1964Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Adrián Aguirre BenavidesMexico source
1965February 21 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.source
1965March 2 – Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jailCanada source
196527 April – Police raid Melbourne's Austral Bookshop and seize copies of The Trial of Lady Chatterley, a banned book which recounts of the British obscenity trial of author D. H. Lawrence.Australia source
196529 May – A man named Pusok Anak Ngaik killed 14 people and wounded four others in Bukit Merah, a village near Sandakan, Sabah.Malaysia source
19654 July – Hans Aasnæs, sport shooter (born 1902).Norway source
1965July 14 - Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967.India source
1965August 19 – At the conclusion of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, 66 ex-SS personnel receive life sentences, 15 others shorter ones.source
1965August 31 – U.S. President Johnson signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.source
1965September 9 – Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game in a baseball match against the Chicago Cubs. The opposing pitcher, Bob Hendley, allows only one run, which is unearned.United States source
1965September 18 – In Denmark, Palle Sørensen shoots 4 policemen in pursuit; he is apprehended the same day.source
1965October 6 – Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the Hattersley housing estate. He and his girlfriend Myra Hindley are subsequently identified as the perpetrators of the "Moors murders" of four young people aged from 10 to 16.source
1965October 8 – Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966: The Indonesian army instigates the arrest and execution of communists which last until next March.source
1965October 15 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.source
196520 October – Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player.Israel source
1965The Chatham Cup is won by Eastern Suburbs of Auckland who beat Saint Kilda 4–1 in the final.New Zealand source
1966February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.Soviet Union source
1966March 20 – Football's FIFA World Cup Trophy is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "Pickles" and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.source
196616 April – Two top Barisan Sosialis leaders and MPs, Chia Thye Poh and Koo Young were arrested on sedition charge.Singapore source
1966April 19 – Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965.source
1966May 6 – The Moors murders trial ends in the UK with Ian Brady being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, receiving two concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory.source
1966May 19 – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, United States, and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December 1985).source
196619 May - 1964–66 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Romania 1-2 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
1966June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the March Against Fear.source
19666 June: Brazilian Communist Party leader Luís Carlos Prestes is sentenced to 14 years in prison.Brazil source
1966June 13 – Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.source
196626 June - Ulster Volunteer Force engages in three sectarian murders.Northern Ireland source
1966July 3 – 31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters in front of the United States Embassy in London in Grosvenor Square turns violent.source
1966July 13 – In Chicago, United States, Richard Speck breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.source
1966July 16 – Arkangel de la Muerte, professional wrestler (died 2018)Mexico source
1966September 6 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.source
1966September 30 – Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison in West Berlin.source
1966December 31 – Eight paintings worth millions of pounds are stolen from Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, but are recovered locally within a week.source
1966Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
19662nd Conference of the Workers' Party of KoreaNorth Korea source
1967January 23 – In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.source
1967February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.source
1967March 1 – Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.source
19671 March: Police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.Brazil source
1967March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.source
1967March 21 – Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.source
1967March 26 – Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands.source
1967May 18 – Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial).source
1967June 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1, and leads to over 180 arrests.source
1967June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.source
1967August 11 - In the midst of the student takeover, the phrase «Chilean: El Mercurio lies » on a canvas hanging in the Central House of the Catholic University.Chile source
1967October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.source
1967October 26 – U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a prisoner of war for more than five years.source
196731 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek CypriotsTurkey source
1967October - Ñancahuazú Guerrilla defeated by Government of Bolivia with CIA assistance. Che Guevara captured and executedBolivia source
1967November 17 – French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)source
1967December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.source
1967December 9 – Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven, Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience during a concert.source
1967Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of Congress and especially William S. Paley, the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall—displacing Gilligan's Island, which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled instead. Gunsmoke would remain on CBS until 1975.source
1967Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Germany source
1967Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
1967Benue-Plateau State: Police Commissioner Joseph GomwalkNigeria source
1967The first treasure from the Spanish Armada wreck Girona is recovered.Northern Ireland source
1968February 1 – Vietnam War: Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém – A Viet Cong officer is summarily executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The event is photographed by Eddie Adams. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and sways U.S. public opinion against the war.source
1968February 6 - U.S. 2nd Infantry Division guard post attacked. 3 North Koreans killed by U.S. forces.South Korea source
1968March 6 – Un-recognized Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.source
1968April 2 – Bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson.source
1968April 11 – German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press headquarters in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them Ulrike Meinhof).source
1968June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.source
1968June 5 – Leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died from his injuries the next day.United States source
196816 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1968June 20 – Austin Currie, Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, along with others, squats in a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.source
1968July 23–28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, leaving 7 people killed.source
196823 July – El Al Flight 426 hijacking: The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place, when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew members and 38 passengers is taken over by three terrorists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft, El Al Flight 426, which was en route from Rome to Tel Aviv, is diverted to Algiers by the hijackers. Negotiations with the hijackers lasted for 40 days. Both the hijackers and the passengers, including 21 Israeli hostages, were eventually freed.Israel source
1968July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.source
196828 August – Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons motion, signed by 60 Labour Party backbenchers, criticising RUC action in Dungannon on 24 August, demanding that "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom".Northern Ireland source
19681 October – The Keep Singapore Clean campaign is launched.Singapore source
1968October 30 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (born 1899).Mexico source
1968December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.source
196816 December: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested, after Secretary of Public Security of Guanabara, General Luís de França Oliveira, starts one of the biggest attacks against crime.Brazil source
1968December 20 – The first known Zodiac Killer murder takes place in Lake Herman Road, Vallejo, California.source
1968Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
196927 January – Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.Northern Ireland source
1969March 3 – In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.source
196915 June - The Huanchaca street scandal occurs, when 9 young homosexuals were detained in a house located at number 352 of said street in the city of Antofagasta and arrested until 2 July, in which they suffered mistreatment and abuse.Chile source
1969June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.Mexico source
1969August 4 – The Zodiac Killer adopts his persona in a letter in which he introduces himself with the phrase, "This is the Zodiac speaking."source
1969August 9 – On orders from Charles Manson, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director Roman Polanski, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others.source
1969August 10 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.source
1969August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.source
196929 August – TWA Flight 840 hijacking: A PFLP terrorist cell led by Leila Khaled hijacks TWA Flight 840 on its way from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus. Two Israeli passengers are held captive for 98 days in a Syrian prison and released eventually in a prisoner exchange deal that took place on 7 December 1969. According to several unverified media reports, the hijackers main aim was to kidnap the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yitzhak Rabin, whom the hijacking planner mistakenly believed would be on this flight.Israel source
1969October 11 – The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder.source
1969October 18th - Carravagio's Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence is stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily.source
1969December 6 – Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture.source
196911 December – Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijackingNorth Korea source
1969December 11 – Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijackingSouth Korea source
1969December 24 – Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.source
1969Note 1: Dinamo Tirana walked off when a penalty was awarded to Beroe Stara Zagora, while the score was at 1–0.Albania source
1969Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
197015 March – 1969–70 Albanian Cup: Partizani vs Villaznia, Villaznia wins 1-0Albania source
1970April 4 – Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center in Magdeburg, East Germany.source
197028 May – Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney appear in Dublin's Bridewell Court charged, along with Albert Luykx and Capt. Kelly, with conspiracy to import arms.Northern Ireland source
1970June 1 – Assassination of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu: Former de facto President of Argentina is extrajudicially executed by Montoneros three days after being kidnapped from his Buenos Aires apartment.source
1970September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zurich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.source
19706 September - Dawson's Field hijackings: simultaneous attempts to hijack four airliners by Palestinian militants belonging to the PFLP. Two planes landed in Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan. A hijacking attempt on an El Al flight was thwarted and an American hijacked plane is diverted to Cairo and blown up after the passengers evacuated.Israel source
1970September 29 – In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM 200,000.source
1970October 5 – The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning Quebec's October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.source
1970October 10 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.source
1970October 17 – October Crisis: Quebec politician Pierre Laporte is found murdered by the FLQ in south Montreal.source
1970November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.Soviet Union source
1970December 1 – The Basque ETA (separatist group) kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.source
1970December 3 – Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.source
1970December 3 – October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.source
1970December 7 – Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.source
1970December 22 – Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka extermination camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment.source
1970December 25 – ETA releases Eugen Beihl in Spain.source
1970December 28 – The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.source
197028 December: Burgos trials: Three Basques are sentenced to death, twelve others sentenced to imprisonment (terms from 12 to 62 years), and one is released.Spain source
1970December 29 – The New People's Army conducts a raid in the armory of the Philippine Military Academy, with Lt. Victor Corpuz, academy's constabulary officer, as its accomplice.Philippines source
1970Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.source
1970Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
1970In April, Barre created the National Security Courts, judicial bodies which tried his political opponents and public criticsSomalia source
1971January 1 – Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover: A coalition of over 100 feminists illegally occupy an abandoned city building in New York City. They establish a women's center, homeless shelter, food co-operative, and lesbian center before being raided by police 13 days later.source
1971January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September.source
1971January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day.source
1971January 25 – In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.source
1971March 26 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is arrested by the Pakistan army.source
197126 March – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the president of the All-Pakistan Awami League, is arrested by the Pakistan army.Pakistan source
1971March 29 – A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and female followers Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.source
1971April 19 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the United States; in 1972, the sentence for all California death-row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment.source
1971April 20 – Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.source
1971May 15 – Israeli ambassador to Turkey Efraim Elrom is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25.source
197115 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.Israel source
1971May 26 – Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer/extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.source
1971May 27 – Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.source
1971May 27 – Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored.source
1971June 10 – Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.source
197127 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1971June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo, boss of his eponymous crime family, in the head during an Italian-American rally, putting him in a coma.source
1971July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.source
197120 August – Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman attempts to defect after hijacking a fighter plane.Bangladesh source
1971September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.source
1971November 8 – Army members, searching for Moslem voters in Lanao del Sur, open fire on civilians, killing 39 and injuring 36. Fourteen military personnel would later be charged of murder in April 1972.Philippines source
1971November 24 – During a severe storm over Washington State, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (later misreported as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again.source
1971November 24 – A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.source
1971December 19 – The controversial dystopian crime film A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick is released in New York City.source
1971December 26 – Former teacher Patrick Critton hijacks Air Canada Flight 932, diverting the flight from Canada to Cuba. He would remain a fugitive for almost 30 years.source
197129 December – The Gold Bars triple murders saw a gold merchant and his two employees robbed and killed by a group of 10 men. Seven of the 10 men were sentenced to death for the crime; the remaining three were indefinitely detained for lengthy periods before their release.Singapore source
1971Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
1971Charros de Jalisco win the Mexican League.Mexico source
19728 January – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released from the Mianwali jail and allowed to leave Pakistan after more than nine months' imprisonment. Two days later, after flying to London and Delhi, he returned to Dhaka to become the first President of Bangladesh.Bangladesh source
1972January 8 – Government of Pakistan under Bhutto administration releases Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the house arrest.Pakistan source
1972February 23 – US activist Angela Davis is released from jail. Rodger McAfee, a farmer from Caruthers, California, helps her make bail.source
19722 April – The Singapore Grand Prix is won by Max Stewart.Singapore source
1972April 10 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.source
1972April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.source
1972June 17 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee.source
197212 July – The reopening of Yunlin Prison after relocation in Huwei Township, Yunlin County.Taiwan source
1972August 22 – Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.source
1972September 23 – President Marcos orders the arrest of his political opponents. Senator Aquino, also leader of the opposition Liberal Party (LP) and his main political rival, is the first to be arrested by the military for being a "communist collaborator", at the Hilton Hotel in Manila.Philippines source
1972November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving a radio interview to RTÉ and charged with being a member of the IRA.source
1972December 7 – Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant.source
1972December 28 – The bones of Nazi Party official Martin Bormann are discovered in Berlin during construction work.source
1972Väike reekviem suupillile ('Little Requiem for the Harmonica')Estonia source
1972Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
1972Cholo, starring football player Hugo SotilPeru source
1973January 15 – Chinese Lim Seng (Guan Suo So), upon order from Pres. Marcos on January 3, is publicly executed by firing squad in a firing range in Fort Bonifacio, Rizal for drug trafficking; the country's first execution by that method after 27 years, and only drug convict executed in the martial law era. He was charged in connection to a case wherein illegal drugs were seized in an operation in parts of Metro Manila in 1972.Philippines source
1973July 21 – Lillehammer affair: Agents of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, shoot and kill a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, mistakenly believing him to be a senior member of the Palestinian Black September Organization.source
197327 July – For the first time in Singapore, the government executed its first female death row inmate in the country since its independence eight years back. 34-year-old Mimi Wong was earlier sentenced to death by the High Court for the 1970 murder of Ayako Watanabe, and has lost her appeals since. Wong's 40-year-old husband Sim Wor Kum, who assisted her to commit the murder, was also executed on the same day as Wong.Singapore source
1973August 8 – South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is kidnapped in Tokyo by the KCIA.source
1973August 23 – The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.source
1973August 25 – Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon: Two Australian girls go missing whilst attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval, never to be seen again.source
19731 September – The establishment of Criminal Investigation Bureau.Taiwan source
197315 September – The 50th anniversary of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) was celebrated.Malaysia source
1973October - Lieutenant Colonel Avraham Lanir (born 1940), the highest ranking Israeli fighter pilot to fall into enemy hands. He was tortured to death by his Syrian captors.Israel source
1973November – Queen Sisowath Kossamak of Cambodia is released from house arrest to Beijing.source
1973December 14 – Rhodesia executes two Blacks at Salisbury Central Prison for murder.source
197330 December – The sentences of the "Carabanchel Ten" are announced following the Proceso 1001 trial.Spain source
1973Furia infernal, directed by Armando BóArgentina source
1973BIDC won the Dhaka First Division Football League title, while Abahani Krira Chakra, Mohammedan SC and Dhaka Wanderers came out joint runners-up.Bangladesh source
1974January 31 – Two members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) and two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) made a failed attempt to blow up oil tanks at the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom at Singapore. The terrorists then hijacked the ferry Laju and took its five crew members hostage.source
197431 January – Laju incident: Japanese Red Army bombs petroleum tanks at Pulau Bukom and hijacks a ferry boat.Singapore source
197422 March - Oudong was captured by Angkar's Khmer Rouge forcing many citizens to march into the countryside, as well as executing a large number of prisoners.Cambodia source
1974April 26: In the evening, all prisoners from the Tarrafal Camp were releasedCape Verde source
19741 August – Endalkachew was arrested by the Derg.Ethiopia source
1974September 13 – The Cafetería Rolando bombing takes place, killing 13 people.Spain source
1974November 13 – Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. shoots and kills all six of his family members while they sleep in their beds inside the family's Amityville, New York, home.source
197426 November - Capital punishment is formally abolished.Luxembourg source
1974Abahani Krira Chakra won the Dhaka First Division Football League title, while Dilkusha SC came out runners-up.Bangladesh source
1974Sultan of Kedah: Tengku Abdul Malik (Regent)Malaysia source
1975January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.source
197514 February – Protest in Sion against the closure of Bally workshops in ValaisSwitzerland source
1975February 27 – The 2 June Movement kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.source
1975March 1 – An Iraqi Airways airliner was hijacked by three Kurdish gunmen, shortly after taking off from Mosul to Baghdad with 93 people on board. The hijackers (Ahmad Hasan, Taha Naimi and Faud al-Qeitan) demanded that 85 Kurdish political prisoners be released, that they receive five million dollars, and that they be flown to Iran. After the plane made a forced landing in Tehran on a blocked runway, a gunbattle ensued between Iraqi security guards onboard and the gunmen. One passenger were killed and ten others wounded, including Hasan, who later died of his wounds. Taimi and al-Qeitan were executed a month later by a firing squad in Iran.Iran source
1975March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.source
1975April 7 - Prime Minister Long Boret met with representatives of the Khmer Rouge while in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to Cambodia the next day, refused to leave when officials were offered a chance to escape, and was executed nine days later by the new regime.Cambodia source
19758 July – Skazi, Israeli psytrance DJ and a producerIsrael source
1975September 14 – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.source
1975September 27 – Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the last executions in Spain to date.source
197520 November – Amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act were passed to introduce the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking cases.Singapore source
197524 November: Col. Abu Taher arrested.Bangladesh source
1975December 21 – Six people, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.source
1975Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.source
1975Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
1976March 1 – U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.source
1976March 1 – Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.source
1976March 4 – The Maguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.source
197612 March - Lenny Murphy, leader of the Shankill Butchers, is arrested, but his gang continue to murder.Northern Ireland source
1976March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.source
197631 March - 1976 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Yugoslavia 1-2 at Dinamo Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
1976April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne, Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.source
1976May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.source
1976May 20: Ramón Hernández — baseball player.Venezuela source
1976June 20 – Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.source
1976June 20 – Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.source
1976July 3 – Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the Furman v. Georgia case of 1972.source
1976July 15 – Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.source
1976July 16–20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France.source
1976July 20 – American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.source
197621 July - Col. Abu Taher was tried by a military tribunal inside the Dhaka Central Jail and sentenced to death. The trial was later considered flawed.Bangladesh source
1976July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.source
1976August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.source
1976August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.source
1976August 18 – Korean axe murder incidentNorth Korea source
1976August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.source
1976August 26 - Bernabe Buscayno also known as Kumander Dante of the New People's Army is arrested.Philippines source
1976September 16 – Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.source
1976September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).source
1976October 6 – The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.source
1976The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada.source
1976Tuol Svay Prey High School once named after a royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk had turned into an extermination camp, torture, execution center, human slaughterhouse and prison renamed the complex "Tuol Sleng Prison" or "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison for the inmates by Santebal: the buildings in the deserted capital city of Phnom Penh were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes and suicides once they are arrested and detained as political enemies, dissidents, party cadres including their entire extended families, soldiers of Lon Nol government as well as academics, doctors, teachers, students, factory workers, monks, engineers, etc, brought en masse to be interrogated and later executed at Choeung Ek near the killing field after S-21 has a long strict set of rules that was completely enforced by Angkar.Cambodia source
1976Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
197724 January – Former Selangor Menteri Besar, Datuk Harun Idris was found guilty and sentenced by the High Court to six months jail for forgery and fined RM 15,000 or six months jail for abetting criminal breach of trust involving nearly RM 6.5 million worth of Bank Rakyat's stocks and sharesMalaysia source
197719 March – A Turkish aircraft hijacked to Beirut, LebanonTurkey source
1977April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.source
1977May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.source
1977May 27 – A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces.source
1977May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.Northern Ireland source
1977July 10 — 1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking.Soviet Union source
1977July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act.source
1977September 5 – German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.source
1977September 8 – Interpol issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.source
1977September 10 – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is the last person executed by guillotine in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.source
197717 September – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is arrested under martial law orders.Pakistan source
1977September 19 – North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume from Noto Peninsula starting the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.source
1977October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die.source
1977October 19 – German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France.source
197723 November - 1977-78 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Yugoslavia 6-0 at Stadion Kantrida, RijekaAlbania source
1977November 25 – Benigno Aquino Jr. was found guilty of charges and sentence him to death by firing squad, but the death sentence was postponed.Philippines source
19771976–77 Mexican Primera División seasonMexico source
1978January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.source
197818 January – The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.Northern Ireland source
1978February 1 – Film director Roman Polanski skips bail in the United States and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.source
1978March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.source
1978March 18 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging, for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.source
1978March 28 – Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision, in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.source
1978April 9 – Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.source
197817 April – Ido Mosseri, Israeli actorIsrael source
1978May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, is found in a red Renault 4.source
1978May 17 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.source
1978May 18 – Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to 7 years' hard labor, for distributing 'counterrevolutionary material'.source
1978May 23 – American basketball player center Bill Walton of the Portland Trail Blazers was named the National Basketball Association regular season MVP.source
1978May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.source
1978September 19 – Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.source
1978September 23 – California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels' road trip in Chicago, Illinois.source
1978September 27 – The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia.source
197828 September – one of the last Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter August Sabbe was discovered and killed in Estonia.Estonia source
1978September 30 – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.source
197830 September – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.Finland source
1978September – Serial criminal Lawrence Singleton commits heinous crime against Mary Vincent.source
197812 November - The Huanchaca street scandal occurs, when 7 young homosexuals were detained in a house located at number 352 of said street in the city of Antofagasta.Chile source
1978December 4 – Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone, to become the first woman mayor of San Francisco; she will remain in office until January 8, 1988.source
1978December 11 – Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.source
1978December 15 – Superman: The Movie is released in cinemas in the United States.source
1978December 19 – Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.source
1978December 22 – Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men and boys committed between 1972 and 1978, is arrested.source
1978Romanian painter Doina Bumbea is abducted by the North Korean government.source
1978Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
1978Sir Henry Garrioch (1977–1979)Mauritius source
1978The North Korean government kidnaps Romanian painter Doina Bumbea.North Korea source
1979January 6 – Geylang Bahru family murders: Four children, aged five to ten, are brutally killed in Geylang Bahru, Singapore.source
1979January 19 – Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.source
1979January 20 – Capital punishment in Peru: Following a hasty conviction on espionage and treason charges, Air Force member Julio Vargas Garayar became the last person to be executed by Peru.source
1979February 7 – Nazi criminal Josef Mengele suffers a fatal stroke and drowns while swimming in Bertioga, Brazil. His remains are found in 1985.source
1979February 13 – The Guardian Angels are formed in New York City as an unarmed organization of young crime fighters.source
197920 February – Eleven Loyalists, known as the Shankill Butchers, are sentenced to life imprisonment for 112 offences, including nineteen sectarian murders.Northern Ireland source
1979February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans is cancelled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.source
197911 March – 1979 North Korean local electionsNorth Korea source
197914 March - 1979–80 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Yugoslavia 3-0 at Stadion Kantrida, RijekaAlbania source
1979April 1–18 – Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria and forget about him, leaving him there without food or drink.source
1979April 18 - Relatives of disappeared detainees are chained in the building of the former National Congress, where the Ministry of Justice worked. Again they get no response.Chile source
197922 April – 1979 Nahariya attack: A group of four Palestinian Liberation Front militants, including the 16-year-old Samir Kuntar, enter Israel from Lebanon by boat and infiltrate the Israeli town of Nahariya, located ten kilometers south of the Lebanese border. The squad murder four Israeli civilians, including three members of one family: Danny Haran and his children, Einat Haran (age four) and Yael Haran (age two).Israel source
1979May 21 – Dan White is convicted of manslaughter, rather than murder, for the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, after using what would become known as the "Twinkie defense" and persuading a jury that the crime was not premeditated. The maximum sentence is seven years imprisonment, with eligibility for early parole, prompting the "White Night riots" in the gay community.source
1979May 25 – Etan Patz, six years old, is kidnapped in New York. He is often referred to as the "Boy on the Milk Carton" and the investigation later sprouts into one of the most famous child abduction cases of all time. This is a cold case until 2010 when it is re-opened. In April 2017, Pedro Hernandez is convicted of the murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment.source
1979June 20 – A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.source
1979June 22 – Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.source
197910 July – Mehmet Ali Ağca, charged with the murder of Abdi İpekçi, is arrested.Turkey source
1979July 21 – The disco music genre dominates and peaks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the first six spots (beginning with Donna Summer's Bad Girls), and seven of the chart's top ten songs ending that week.source
1979July 22 – 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling Ba'ath Party.source
1979September 9 – The long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse begins its run, in Canada, before becoming syndicated elsewhere in North America and the world.source
1979September 16 – The Sugarhill Gang release Rapper's Delight in the United States, the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.source
1979September 29 – The overthrown dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea is convicted of genocide and executed by firing squad.source
1979November 2 – French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.source
1979November 9 – The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends in England with all four men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.source
1979November 15 – British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as the "fourth man" of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; she gives further details on November 21.source
1979November 23 – The Troubles: In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in August. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.source
1979Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
19791978–79 Mexican Primera División season.Mexico source
1980January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.source
1980February 2 – Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.source
1980March 10 – George Boley is arrested on charges of treason and sedition.Liberia source
1980April 26 – Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.source
1980May 7 – Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).source
19801 July – Footballer Robby Langers transfers from Union Luxembourg to German club Borussia Mönchengladbach.Luxembourg source
1980August 17 – In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo.source
198015 October – NSP chairman Erbakan and 21 party members arrested for acting against secular principles of the republic.Turkey source
1980October 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.source
1980October 27 – The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.source
1980November 20 – The Gang of Four trial begins in China.source
198028 November – Nachum Gutman (born 1898), Russian (Bessarabia)-born Israeli painter, sculptor and author.Israel source
1980December 8 – Murder of John Lennon: Mark David Chapman is arrested following the murder of English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, outside his New York City apartment building, The Dakota.source
1980December 8 – John Lennon is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.United States source
198015 December – Thirty more IRA prisoners join the hunger strike.Northern Ireland source
198028: Scapegoat Marinus van der Lubbe, is posthumously acquitted for setting fire to the German Reichstag building.Netherlands source
1980Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
19801979–80 Mexican Primera División season.Mexico source
198125 January and 7 February - Adrian Lim, a self-professed medium, Catherine Tan Mui Choo and Hoe Kah Hong murders two children as "sacrifices" in a case known as the Toa Payoh ritual murders. This case becomes the second-longest murder trial in Singapore at that time, taking 41 days to complete. The three suspects are found guilty and sentenced to hang. The sentences are carried out on 25 November 1988.Singapore source
19812 March 1981 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326 is hijacked by armed men belonging to Al-Zulfiqar. At the time, it was the longest hijacking in history.Pakistan source
19815 March – 1981 North Korean local electionsNorth Korea source
1981March 15 - Three hijackers holding hostages aboard a Pakistani jetliner surrendered to Syrian authorities, ending a 13-day ordeal.Syria source
1981May 15 – A prison officer, 31-year-old Donna Payant, disappears at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York. She is later found to have been murdered by convicted serial killer Lemuel Smith. It is the first time a female prison officer has been killed while on duty in the United States.source
1981May 22 – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder in England.source
1981Aer Lingus flight 164 is hijacked just before landing at London Heathrow airport. The flight continues on to France before the hijacker who reportedly demanded for the releasing of the third secret of Fatima, is subdued.source
1981July 1 – Wonderland murders: The Wonderland Gang of cocaine dealers is brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Eddie Nash is suspected of involvement, but will never be convicted.source
1981August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering John Lennon in Manhattan eight months earlier.source
198129 August – 1981 Vienna synagogue attack: Palestinian terrorists killed two people and wounded 30 attending a Bar Mitzvah in Vienna.Israel source
1981September 10 – Picasso's painting Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid.source
1981September – Little Miss Bossy, the first book in the Little Miss series (the female counterpart to the Mr. Men series) is first published, in the U.K.source
198111 October – A Malay rubber tapper named Jaafar Patola killed six people and wounded 25 others in Parit Setan, a village near Benut, Johor before being shot dead by police.Malaysia source
19813 November – 3 November – Former prime minister Bülent Ecevit receives prison sentence for making political statements.Turkey source
1981December 17 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.source
1981Palestinian terrorist Ziad Abu Ein is extradited from the United States to Israel.Palestine source
1981Srimulat, comedian group from Central Java performed on TVRI Jakarta for the first time. It makes the comedian group was known by Indonesian people and had been a legendary comedian group.source
1982February 25 – The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who cane, belt or tawse children against the wishes of their parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.source
1982March 16 – Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife by a court in Newport, Rhode Island.source
198226 March – Mikel Arteta, football player and managerSpain source
1982April 26 – From 26 to 27 April, policeman Woo Bum-kon goes on a killing spree in Uiryeong County, South Korea. By the early morning of April 27, after killing at least 56 people with several firearms and grenades, he kills himself via grenade. It becomes the deadliest spree shooting in recorded history up until the 2011 Norway attacks.source
1982April – The 1982 Malaysian General Elections. The State Assemblyman for Tampin, Negeri Sembilan, Datuk Mohd Taha Talib was found murdered. The Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Mokhtar Hashim was arrested and later convicted in connection with the murder.Malaysia source
198231 May: Skirmish at Top Malo HouseArgentina source
1982July 16 – In New York City, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.source
1982July 21 – Unidentified gunmen ambush a car carrying Minister of State and former Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez in New Manila, Quezon City, seriously injuring him and killing his driver.Philippines source
198225 July – The first locally produced drama, Seletar Robbery, is shown on SBC 8.Singapore source
1982August 15 - A hand grenade was thrown into the Prime-minister's house, causing only structural damage.Thailand source
1982September 29 – Chicago Tylenol murders: an unknown killer laces Tylenol capsules with potassium cyanide that kills seven in Chicago, Illinois.source
1982November 26: Toos van der Valk, wife of Gerrit van der Valk CEO of hospitality chain Van der Valk, is abducted from her house in Nuland by 3 Italian criminals. She was released after 3 weeks after paying 12 to 13 million guilders in ransom .Netherlands source
1982December 7 – The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.source
1982December 8 – The December murders occur in Suriname.source
1982Summer: tropical storm Beryl hit Sal and BravaCape Verde source
1983January 24 – 25 members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro.source
1983February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women.source
1983February 10 – Dismembered sets of human remains are found at a block of flats in Muswell Hill, North London. 37-year-old civil servant Dennis Nilsen, is arrested on suspicion of murder.source
198310 February – Emil Grunzweig (born 1947), Romanian-born Israeli teacher and peace activist, killed by a grenade thrown into a Peace Now demonstration.Israel source
198312 February: 1983 women's march, LahorePakistan source
19834 May – Doğu Perinçek is sentenced to 12 years in prison.Turkey source
198323 July - National Service conscript Sek Kim Wah and his accomplice Nyu Kok Meng went to rob a rich businessman and his family who lived in Andrew Road. Sek murdered three of the victims (which included the businessman, his wife and the family maid), with the remaining two hostages (the businessman's young daughter and the girl's tuition teacher) being released by Nyu, who protected them from Sek's murderous rampage, which would make headlines nationwide and brought shock to Singaporeans in 1983. Sek, who was also involved in an unrelated double murder that occurred a month earlier, was later arrested and sentenced to death for the five murders. Nyu, who turned himself in, was subsequently incarcerated for life and caned 6 strokes for armed robbery after the prosecution decided to dismiss the murder charges against him since he did not partake in the killings Sek committed. Sek was eventually hanged in Changi Prison Complex on 9 December 1988.Singapore source
1983August 23 – In a crackdown on crime, the Chinese state executes 19 people for murder, 10 for rape, and one for auto theft. By the end of the year, Amnesty International estimates that at least 600 people have been executed in China.source
19837 September – Agents from the CNI, Investigations and Carabineros shot 5 MIR militants in two safe houses of the movement located in the communes of Las Condes and Quinta Normal. In these events, a 16-year-old teenager survived, who lived in one of the safe houses.Chile source
1983September 26 – The mass burial of around 700,000 unsold Atari video game cartridges, consoles, and computers occurs in Alamogordo, New Mexico.source
1983October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.source
1983December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. As of 2025, the trophy has not been recovered.source
1983Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.source
1983Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ShahMalaysia source
19831982–83 Mexican Primera División seasonMexico source
19838 and 14 December - 1983 Supertaça Cândido de OliveiraPortugal source
19841 January – Hotel Majestic (later occupied by Balai Seni Lukis Negara (National Art Gallery)) was closed after 52 years of operation. It reopened in 2012.Malaysia source
1984February 10: Bram Peper the mayor of Rotterdam installs Jan van Dorp as new chief Commissioner of the Rotterdam police corps as successor of Albert Vermeij.Netherlands source
198414 March - Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams is shot and wounded in Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1984March 16 – Gary Plauché shoots his son's rapist at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airportsource
1984March 16 – John Hoagland, 36, photojournalist, shot.El Salvador source
1984April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).source
1984May 30 – Liverpool beat Roma 5–2 after penalties in the final of the 1984 European Cup football tournament.source
19845 June - Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy, a Libyan engineer, is publicly executed in a Benghazi basketball stadium after a show trial. Huda Ben Amer, a Gaddafi loyalist and later mayor of Benghazi, becomes known as "Huda the executioner" after rushing in to aid in the execution.Libya source
1984June 19 – 17-year-old Ricky Kasso murders Gary Lauwers in Northport, New York, contributing to the Satanic panic association of heavy metal music and satanism.source
198428 June – Tommaso Buscetta extradited from Brasil. (→ Maxi Trial from 1986)Italy source
1984July 1 – Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).source
1984July 18 – San Ysidro McDonald's massacre: 41-year-old James Huberty walks into a McDonald's in the San Ysidro district of San Diego, resulting in 21 deaths, with Huberty being killed by a sniper 77 minutes after the ordeal begins.source
19846 August – Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam is abducted by a terrorist cell composed of Israeli-Arabs. He is later murdered. His attackers are arrested and (in 1986) sentenced to life.Israel source
1984August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.source
1984September 16 – Edgar Reitz's film series Heimat begins release in Germany.source
1984September 29 – In the early morning, police in Sicily apprehend 366 people they suspect to be involved in the activities of Cosa Nostra.source
1984October 19 – Polish secret police kidnapped and assassinated Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supported the Solidarity movement. His body was found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.source
198421 November – 23 year old Birzeit university student, Sharaf Tibi from Khan Yunis, is shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.Palestine source
1984December 20 – Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on 23 July 2019, located about 15 mi southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head".source
1984December 22 – Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in the Bronx borough of New York City. They demand five dollars from Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.source
19851 February – The Small Claims Tribunal is established as part of the Subordinate Courts (present day State Courts of Singapore), which mainly deals with small claims.Singapore source
1985February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico by drug traffickers; his body is later discovered on March 5.source
1985March 16 – Lebanon hostage crisis: US journalist Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he remains a prisoner until December 4, 1991.source
1985May 11 – The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.source
1985May 26 – Young driver Danny Sullivan beats veteran Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500.source
1985June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.source
1985July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.source
198528 August: Israeli authorities begin the first major series of arrests of Palestinians under the Iron Fist policy. Over the next few days, dozens of Palestinians would be placed in administrative detention under suspicion of subversive activity, and roadblocks would be erected across the West Bank.Palestine source
1985September – the Salvadoran government arrests four men, including Américo Mauro Araujo, a high-ranking Salvadoran Communist Party official, for their involvement in the Zona Rosa attacks.El Salvador source
1985October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.source
198522 October – Second leg of the 1985 Copa Libertadores finals.Colombia source
19857 November – Heavy rainfall in IstanbulTurkey source
198521 November – Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence analyst who spied for Israeli intelligence, is arrested by the FBI at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington while trying to seek asylum there.Israel source
1985December 27 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.source
1985DNA is first used in a criminal case.source
1985Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1985Derry City F.C. joins the League of Ireland, having been out of senior football since 1972.Northern Ireland source
1986February 10 – The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) begins in the bunker room of the Ucciardone prison (Palermo). It will be the largest trial against the Sicilian Mafia.source
1986February 27 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.source
1986February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.source
1986March 5 – President Aquino frees four suspected communist leaders, including Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison and alleged NPA founder Bernabe Buscayno, eventually releasing all political prisoners of the Marcos administration.Philippines source
198614 March: The body of Sergeant David Manos, an Israeli soldier who disappeared in Israel in late 1984, is discovered in the West Bank. Four Palestinians from Deir Ballut would later be charged with his kidnapping and murder.Palestine source
1986March 26 – An article in The New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.source
1986August 19 – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting The Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.source
198619 September – The completion of Yunlin Prison expansion in Huwei Township, Yunlin County.Taiwan source
1986November 18 – Greater Manchester Police announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.source
198630 November – The first episode of Crimewatch is shown on SBC 5.Singapore source
198617 December – Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel murders El Espectador director and journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza. In the following 24 hours, the Colombian press at large protested his murder by not airing any radio or television news nor printing any print media.Colombia source
1986December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.source
198624 December: The Argentine National Congress passes the Full stop law (Ley de Punto Final), which effectively halts further investigations and prosecutions of individuals involved in crimes committed during the dictatorship, limiting legal actions to those indicted within 60 days of the law's enactment.Argentina source
1986Opus Pro, a Latvian hard rock group, is established.source
1986Kazma SC win the Kuwait Premier League.Kuwait source
1986Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1987January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter's release.source
1987January 20 – Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, is kidnapped in Beirut (released November 1991).source
1987March 21: Soccer player Ruud Gullit is transferred by PSV to AC Milan for a record fee of 17 million Dutch Guilder.Netherlands source
198711 April: A Palestinian terrorist firebombs an Israeli family's car in the West Bank, murdering Ofra Moses and her five-year-old son Tal. In response, settlers riot through the Palestinian town of Qalqilya.Palestine source
198712 April – The murder of Ang May Hong happened in Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMalaysia source
1987May 11 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.source
198721 May – 21 people are arrested in Operation Spectrum for the Marxist conspiracy.Singapore source
1987July 3 – Greater Manchester Police in England recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor, after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley help them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive.source
1987July 4 – A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.source
1987August 14 – All the children held at Kai Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.source
1987August 17 – Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon to be demolished.source
1987August 19 – ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.source
1987September 4 – In a village in Rajasthan, an 18-year-old widow, Roop Kanwar is burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre, in a banned practice known as Sati. Though the woman's father-in-law is arrested by authorities, thousands of Hindu pilgrims travel to the cremation site in support of the act.source
19873 October – Tudor Postelnicu is replaced by Iulian Vlad as head of the Securitate.Romania source
1987October 23 – British champion jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for three years after being convicted of tax evasion.source
198715 November – 1987 North Korean local electionsNorth Korea source
1987November 15 – Juanito Rivera, CPP's second highest ranking official, is arrested in Capas, Tarlac. –"In the Manila Times" The Manila Times (via Pressreader).Philippines source
198730 December – Jorge Ochoa is released from prison on a habeas corpus petition.Colombia source
198825 January – While on his way to José María Córdova International Airport, Inspector General Carlos Mauro Hoyos is attacked and kidnapped. He is killed in captivity a few hours after.Colombia source
19884 February – UMNO was declared an illegal organisation by the High Court.Malaysia source
1988February 17 – U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (and later killed by his captors).source
198827 February – Zoe Tay was crowned the winner in the finals of the inaugural season of the long-running Singaporean reality television programme Star Search on SBC 8.Singapore source
1988March 16 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.source
1988March 29 – Eight suspected communists are captured in military raids on their safehouses in Metro Manila—seven in San Juan, including three leading Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) officials, NPA commander Romulo Kintanar, general secretary Rafael Baylosis, and senior central committee member Benjamin de Vera; and Napoleon Manuel, "logistics officer" for the NPA, in Quezon City.Philippines source
1988April 16 – Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.source
1988October 12 – Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.source
198826 October – Steaua plays against Spartak Moscow.Romania source
19881 December – The hijacking of a LAZ-687 bus with schoolchildren takes place in Ordzhonikidze.Soviet Union source
1988December 16 – Perennial U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is convicted of mail fraud.source
1988Abahani KC won the Bangladesh Federation Cup.Bangladesh source
1988Jugoplastika Split became champion of Yugoslavia in basketball.Croatia source
1989January 29 – The two longest-imprisoned German WWII war criminals in Western Europe, Ferdinand aus der Fünten and Franz Fischer (collectively known as The Breda Two), were released from Dutch prison.source
1989February 17 – South African police raid the home of Winnie Mandela and arrest four of her bodyguards.source
1989March 3 – Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders two eight-year-old girls in the Myllypuro suburb of Helsinki, Finland.source
1989April 6 – National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235,000,000.source
19899 April - Munir Hussain, a wealthy industrialist, kills his wife Sharmin Rima after only four months of marriage. The murder and subsequent trial generates widespread public comment.Bangladesh source
198910 April – Lone gunman wearing an Israeli army-issue uniform shot down four Arabs outside Jerusalem's Old City with a sub-machine gun. Sicarii claims responsibility for the shooting.Palestine source
1989April 19 – Central Park jogger case: Trisha Meili is seriously assaulted and raped whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; the convictions of five teenagers for the crime are vacated in 2002 (the jogger's identity remains secret for years, hence she is referred to as the "Central Park Jogger").source
1989May 4 – Oliver North is convicted in the United States on charges related to the Iran–Contra affair. His conviction is vacated on appeal in 1991.source
1989July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the United States' 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.source
1989July 27 – In the largest prison sentence to date, Thai financial scammer Mae Chamoy Thipyaso and her accomplices are each sentenced to 141,078 years in prison.source
1989July 28 – Satur Ocampo, leader of the National Democratic Front and chief rebel negotiator in peace talks, and his wife Carolina Malay, both former journalists, are arrested. They have been charged in court on July 24 for allegedly leading the execution of suspected military spies in Quezon.Philippines source
1989July 31 – In Lebanon, Hezbollah announces that it has hanged U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins in retaliation for Israel's July 28 kidnapping of Hezbollah leader Abdel Karim Obeid. The same day, the United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 638, condemning the taking of hostages by both sides in the conflict.source
1989August 5 – Park Avenue Joe is finally declared the winner after finishing in a dead heat with Probe in the Hambletonian Stakes for parimutuel and prize money purposes, based on the two heat and runoff format, based on average finish.source
1989August 19–21 – In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11,000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.source
1989August 20 – In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den.source
1989August 23 – Murder of Yusef Hawkins in a shooting in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.source
1989September 14 – Standard Gravure shooting: Joseph T. Wesbecker, a pressman on disability for mental illness, enters his former workplace in Louisville, Kentucky, kills eight people and injures twelve before committing suicide after a history of suicidal ideation.source
1989September 19 – Burkinabé ministers Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani and Henri Zongo executed following their arrest the previous day.source
1989October 15 – Walter Sisulu is released from prison in South Africa.source
198923 November – During the XIV Congress of the RCP, first shift workers from Timișoara Mechanical Works try to organize a revolt against the communist regime. Their movement is quelled by the Securitate organs.Romania source
1989December 6 – École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders fourteen young women at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.source
1989December 23 – Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu are captured in Târgoviște.source
1989December 25 – Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu: Deposed Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife are summarily tried and executed outside Bucharest.source
1989December 25 — Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife are captured and executed in the Romanian revolution.Soviet Union source
1989Davor Šuker was the highest scoring player in Yugoslavia's First Federal League, with 18 goals for NK Osijek.Croatia source
1989The last known use of the Capital punishment in LaosLaos source
1989Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
199014 January – Fidel Castaño orders the Los Tangueros paramilitary group to commit the Pueblo Bello Massacre. They loot houses, round up peasants in the town square, select 43 men and boys to kidnap, and torture them. Of the 43 kidnapped, 6 are murdered, and the 37 others are 'disappeared'.Colombia source
1990January 18 – McMartin preschool trial: Peggy McMartin Buckey and Raymond Buckey are acquitted of 52 charges related to alleged ritual abuse taking place at their daycare in Manhattan Beach, California.source
1990January 22 – US graduate student Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the Morris worm onto the internet.source
19902 February – Bucharest Military Court pronounces judgment in the trial of four of Ceaușescu's close collaborators – Manea Mănescu, Tudor Postelnicu, Emil Bobu, and Ion Dincă: life imprisonment and total confiscation of personal property.Romania source
1990February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.source
1990March 1 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.source
1990March 9 – Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.source
1990March 15 – Iraq hangs Iranian journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.source
1990March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.source
1990April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.source
1990April 7 – Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.source
1990April 21 – Japanese Yoshio Tani, M.Sc. murders gold merchant Turkka Elovirta and businessman Juhani Komulainen in Siuntio, Finland, having convinced them to buy a nonexistent 500 kilogram stash of Nazi gold.source
1990April 22 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.source
1990April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.source
1990May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million.source
199015 May – Known as the Amber Beacon Tower murder, a young couple were attacked by two unknown men at the tower in East Coast Park during their date. The girlfriend, Kelly Tan Ah Hong, was killed while her boyfriend James Soh Fook Leong was grievously injured. The murder remains unsolved till today.Singapore source
199020 May – Ami Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged Israeli soldier, kills seven Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion. Popper committed the murder with a rifle that he stole from his soldier brother.Palestine source
199027 May – Killings of Nick Spanos and Stephen MelroseNetherlands source
1990July 2 – A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.source
1990September 7 — Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit founded.Croatia source
1990September 12 – A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.source
1990October 12 – A leader of the right-wing Pamyat organization is arrested in the Soviet Union for spreading antisemitic hatred.source
1990October 12 – German interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble is shot at during an election campaign event. He survives but will require a wheelchair for the rest of his life.source
1990November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.source
1990November 20 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested in Novocherkassk.source
1990Bangladesh passes the Narcotics Control Act of 1990.Bangladesh source
1990Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1991March 3 – A video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. Four Los Angeles police officers are indicted on March 15 for the beating.source
1991March 14 – The Troubles: After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing an English public house in a Provisional IRA attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that their conviction was unsafe and unsatisfactory.source
199118 April - The first of the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders is discovered.Finland source
19914 May – Filipina domestic worker Delia Maga and her 4-year-old charge, Nicholas Huang are found murdered in their flat. Flor Contemplacion was subsequently tried for the murders and found guilty.Singapore source
1991June 16 – Father's Day bank massacre: Four security guards are shot to death during a bank robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver, Colorado, United States. The former police officer subsequently charged with the crime is acquitted, and the case remains unsolved.source
1991July 9 – Iran–Contra affair: Alan Fiers agrees to plead guilty to two charges of lying to the U.S. Congress. Later on September 16, D.C. Judge Gerhard Gesell issues a ruling clearing Col. Oliver North of all charges.source
1991July 22 – U.S. boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape, three days earlier, of Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, in Indianapolis, Indiana.source
199114 August - Kim Hak-sun's first public testimony, shedding light on the abuse of Japanese "military comfort women"South Korea source
1991September 24 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release Jackie Mann after more than two years of captivity.source
199124 September – Oriol Romeu, footballerSpain source
1991September 29 – Salvadoran Civil War: An army colonel of the Atlácatl Battalion is found guilty of the 1989 murders of six Jesuits.source
1991October 21 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Jesse Turner, a mathematics professor who has been held hostage for more than four years, is released.source
1991November 18 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and academic Thomas Sutherland free.source
199124 November – 1991 North Korean local electionsNorth Korea source
1991December 4 – John Leonard Orr, one of the most prolific serial arsonists of the 20th century, is arrested in California.source
199110 December – Alirio Pedraza, an attorney who investigated human rights abuses and had disappeared the year prior, is honored by Human Rights Watch “to commend [his] dedication to justice and to highlight [his] plight” as apart from their annual selection of human rights advocates.Colombia source
199112 December – Supreme Court of Justice, Department of Military, declares not guilty the former members of the Political Executive Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.Romania source
1991Handball club RK Partizan Bjelovar renamed RK Bjelovar.Croatia source
199226 March – The Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Committee set up mock trials known as Gono Adalat (People's Court) led by Jahanara Imam in Dhaka and 'sentenced' persons they accused of being war criminals.Bangladesh source
1992April 9 – A jury in Miami, Florida, convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.source
1992May 23 – Capaci bombing: A Mafia bomb on the autostrada in Sicily kills five people, including Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.source
199224 May – Murder of Helena Rapp: 18-year-old Palestinian Fuad Muhammad Abdulhadi Amrin stabbed to death 15-year-old Israeli Helena Rapp. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.Palestine source
19923 June – Local municipal officials belonging to the Patriotic Union María Mercedes Méndez, William Ocampo Castaño, Rosa Peña Rodríguez, and Ernesto Sarralde and their driver, Armando Sandovaz, are targeted and killed in El Castillo, Meta.Colombia source
199214 June – France's Jean-Philippe Dojwa wins the 1992 Tour de Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
1992July 10 – In Miami, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for participating in the illegal drug trade and racketeering.source
1992July 19 – Via D'Amelio bombing: A car bomb placed by the Sicilian Mafia (with the collaboration of Italian intelligence) kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his police escort.source
1992July 22 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.source
199225 to August, athletes participated in the Barcelona OlympicsNigeria source
1992September 1 – In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.source
1992September 12 – In Peru, police arrest Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Shining Path guerilla movement, who has evaded capture for 12 years.source
1992September 28 – Law enforcement officials in the United States, Colombia and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on money laundering charges related to cocaine trafficking.source
1992October 7 – In Peru, Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán is convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.source
199215 November: A dentist named Ricardo Barreda murders his wife, two daughters, and mother-in-law.Argentina source
1992December 22 – The Archives of Terror are discovered by Martín Almada in Asunción, detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who have been secretly kidnapped, tortured and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in Operation Condor.source
199231 December - Ministry of Justice announces large-scale amnesty for political prisoners and criminals.South Korea source
1992Charles Wade, an American lobbyist, receives a $575,000 (USD) bribe to lobby the American government to remove sanctions against Libya. Wade would plead guilty to conspiring to violate the sanctions in 1995.Libya source
1993January 5 – US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.source
1993January 22 – Hungarian politician Istvan Csurka, of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, calls on the nation to rally against an alleged anti-Hungarian conspiracy led by Jews, liberals, Communists, and Westerners.source
1993January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest against the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.source
1993February 12 – Murder of James Bulger: Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who later torture and murder him.source
1993February 22 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.source
199315th - some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are arrested for demonstrating against the national budget.Ghana source
1993March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.source
1993April 21 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.source
1993April 30 – Tennis player Monica Seles – at this time the top-ranked player in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match at the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany.source
1993May 11 – A Taiwanese businessman is abducted by an unidentified, newly-formed kidnap-for-ransom gang in Metro Manila. He is brought to Laguna and is released on May 17 after a ransom is paid in Hong Kong. Police later believes that the gang has international links and flees Manila thereafter.Philippines source
199323 May – In record busts against drug smugglers in southeastern Balochistan, navy officers seize 132,000 lb of hashish and 440 lb of heroin.Pakistan source
1993June 1 – Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.source
1993July 15 – 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson: Evan Chandler institutes legal accusations against singer Michael Jackson of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son.United States source
1993July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.source
19935 October – PKK killed 35 civilians in Siirt Province and Batman ProvinceTurkey source
199312 October – Virgil Măgureanu is named head of the Romanian Intelligence Service.Romania source
19935 November – Dario Londono Cardona, Vice President of the Senate, and his driver are shot by a group of hitmen in Medellín. This was days after a law he had written parts of, offering leniency to those charged with drug trafficking and other crimes who cooperated with officials, passed. The group “Death to Protectors of the Cali Cartel” claims responsibility. Cardona later dies of his injuries.Colombia source
1993November 30 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.source
1993December 2 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.source
1993December 10 – id Software releases the first-person shooter game Doom.source
1993Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1993261 O-Level papers are lost in transit.Singapore source
1994February 12 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).source
199413 February – Three homeless children, Javier Gonzalez (16), Jairo Murcia (14), “Asprilla” (12), are shot while sleeping and killed in Timiza, Bogotá. They are believed to be victims of the "social cleansing" carried out by armed right-wing gangs and militias.Colombia source
1994February 24 – In Gloucester, England, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.source
1994April 7 – The Hutu Rwandans started murdering thousands of Tutsi Rwandans and moderate Hutus. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was among those murdered.Rwanda source
19949 June – The biggest single robbery to strike a private home occurs at a property in Bukit Timah, in which S$6 million worth of valuables were stolen. All five men involved in the armed robbery were subsequently arrested.Singapore source
1994July – Former members of the MNLF's Bangsa Moro Army kidnap city sports official So Kim Cheng in Davao City; despite closed negotiations, captors did not release the victim and later killed him instead after they learned of a group of operatives conducting own rescue attempt.Philippines source
199414 August - Disappearance of Arlene Arkinson, a 15-year-old Northern Irish teenager from Castlederg, County Tyrone. Her body has never been recovered.Northern Ireland source
1994August 18 – Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants: a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.source
1994August 20 – Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.source
199431 August – biggest heist in Malaysia prepared by Mamak Gang at the Subang International AirportMalaysia source
1994September 16 – Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.source
1994October 5 – The day after five members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada, Swiss police find 48 members of the cult dead, in what was found to be a mass murder-suicide.source
19949 October – Kidnapping of Nachshon Wachsman: IDF soldier Corporal Nachshon Wachsman is kidnapped by Hamas militants disguised as Jewish settlers. They later demand the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and another 200 Palestinian Arab prisoners from Israeli prison in return for Wachsman's release.Palestine source
1994October 16 – Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).source
199423 October – Khulna Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir leader Abul Kashem Pathan was shot dead by activists of the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra DalBangladesh source
1994December 13 – The trial of former president Mengistu begins in Ethiopia.source
1994December 13 – Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.source
199517 March – Flor Contemplacion, a Filipina domestic worker, was hanged for the murder of fellow worker Delia Maga and her three-year-old son, Nicholas Huang which she committed on 4 May 1991.Singapore source
1995March 31 – Murder of Selena: Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is shot and killed by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.source
1995May 16 – Following the Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.source
1995May 1995: North Korean forces fire on a South Korean fishing boat, killing three.North Korea source
1995June 2 – Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.source
1995June 6 – The Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes capital punishment in South Africa in the case of S v Makwanyane and Another.source
1995June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.source
199513 August – Popular daily morning show host Jaime Garzón is shot and killed by two men on a motorcycle while on his way to work.Colombia source
199524 August – Rape and murder of 14-year-old Yasmin Akhter by members of Bangladesh Police resulted in mass protests in Dinajpur.Bangladesh source
199511 September - Raid on warehouse results in the largest bust of an illegal LSD producing factory in Europe to date.Luxembourg source
1995September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.source
1995October 3 – Murder trial of O. J. Simpson: Former American football star O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in a criminal trial for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.source
1995November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.source
1995November 16 – Former President Roh Tae-woo was arrested on charges of corruption, illegal financing.South Korea source
1995December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission, dredge the Tigris near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.source
1995Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
19951 to 11 August – The 18th World Scout Jamboree was held in Dronten.Netherlands source
1996March 27 - Egyptian hijackers commandeer an Egyptian passenger flight in Luxor and land it in Martubah, Libya, demanding a meeting with world leaders. The hijackers released the 152 passengers unharmed and surrendered to the Libyan military.Libya source
199620 April - Robert Dunlop, after an accident in 1994, returns to race in the Cookstown 100, taking ninth place in the 125cc race won by brother, Joey Dunlop.Northern Ireland source
1996June 2 – 1996 Spanish Grand PrixSpain source
19969 June – Italy's Alberto Elli wins the 1996 Tour de Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
1996July 11 – Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.source
1996August 13 – Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, an Indonesian journalist, was attacked at his house by two unidentified assailants. He died three days later.Indonesia source
1996August 16–25: Five athletes from Armenia competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics.Armenia source
1996August 26 – David Dellinger, Bradford Lyttle, and nine others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.source
199630 August – Around 500 guerrillas belonging to the Southern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC) attack Las Delicias military base in Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo. During the attack, 27 National Army soldiers die, 60 are kidnapped, and 16 are wounded. 12 FARC members are also killed and 25 are injured.Colombia source
1996November 19 – Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in Tasmania earlier this year.source
1996Kuwaiti general election, 1996Kuwait source
1997January 16 – Murder of Ennis Cosby: Near Interstate 405 in Los Angeles, Bill Cosby's son Ennis is shot in the head in a failed robbery attempt.source
1997January–August - At least 6,000 people, most of whom civilians and returnees from the Great Lakes refugee crisis, are reported to have been killed by militants across the country.Rwanda source
1997March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.source
1997April 14 – Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.source
199729 May – Dedi Omar Hamdun, a businessman and politician from United Development Party, and husband of Eva Arnaz, was kidnapped during legislative elections along with his driver, Noval Alkatiri and business colleague, Ismail.Indonesia source
1997June 2 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.source
1997June 10 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.source
1997June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.source
1997June 14 – 60 soldiers kidnapped by the Southern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC-EP) in the 1996 attack on Las Delicias military nine months earlier are released through the Colombian Red Cross and the Catholic Church Cartagena del Chairá, Caquetá.Colombia source
1997July 13 – The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on October 9 1967 in Bolivia.source
1997July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami Beach residence.source
1997September 20 - Over 70 aid workers and dependants evacuate Mazari Sharif after their premises are ransacked and looted.Afghanistan source
19973 October - Ghana Bar Association (GBA) re-elects Mr. Sam Okudzeto as its national president at a conference in Ho in the Volta region.Ghana source
1997October 22 – Danish escaped criminal Steen Christensen robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.source
1997November 13 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.source
199713 November – Nawaz Sharif promises US president Bill Clinton he will find those responsible for the killing of four US businessmen and their Pakistani driver.Pakistan source
1997An ancient Greek statuette of Terpsichore is discovered during illegal excavations in Dodona, which is then later smuggled out of the country.Greece source
1997Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari was in the 1997 Arab Club Champions Cup.Palestine source
1998January 23 - P.W. Botha appears in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to answer for apartheid-era policies; he refers to the hearing as a "circus".source
1998February 26 – Oprah is cleared of slander in an Amarillo court after a highly publicized court battle with Texas beef moguls.source
199818 March – death penalty was abolished in Estonia.Estonia source
1998April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.source
199828 April – Men claiming to be members of the Peasant Self-Defense Group of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU) kidnap 6 previously displaced men in Bello, Antioquia, killing at least 4 (the other 2 being 'disappeared').Colombia source
1998May 27 – The United States requests that El Salvador reopen its probe into the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries.source
1998July 12: North Korean Raider incident, one frogman found dead on a beach at Donghae on South Korea's east coast.South Korea source
1998July 17 – In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.source
1998August 16 - The Hungarian Grand Prix is won by Michael Schumacher at the Hungaroring, Mogyoród, PestHungary source
1998September 3 - South Africa now says it supports the intervention of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola, supporting Kabila.Angola source
1998September 3 - South Africa now says it supports the intervention of DRC by Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola, supporting Kabila.Democratic Republic of the Congo source
1998September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in Miami, and later convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.source
1998Jean Kambanda is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.source
1998October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.source
1998United States President Bill Clinton signed an executive order freezing the accounts of Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was also placed on the FBI most wanted list, and a reward of US$5 million was offered for his capture. An Italian army officer working for the United Nations is shot dead in Kabul. All foreigners working for the UN in Afghanistan are evacuated.Afghanistan source
1998Kozhaniy Olen', a ska-punk band from Simferopol, is created.Ukraine source
199930 January – Anwar Hossain, leader of Khulna Jubo League, is shot dead.Bangladesh source
1999February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate.source
1999February 13 - America's public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden, is reported missing by his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan.Afghanistan source
19997 March: 1999 North Korean local electionsNorth Korea source
1999April 5 – In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.source
199912 April – Representative Juan Manuel Corzo and 39 other passengers on a plane heading from Bucaramanga to Cúcuta are kidnapped by National Liberation Army (ELN) guerillas.Colombia source
1999April 26 – British TV presenter Jill Dando, 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, London.source
1999May 27 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.source
1999May 28 – Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and later executed with their own service pistols in Malexander, Sweden.source
1999July 1 – Europol (short for European Police Office) the European Union's criminal intelligence agency becomes fully operational.source
1999October 12 – Murder of Björn Söderberg in Stockholm, Sweden by neo-fascists.source
199917 October – 1999 Estonian municipal elections.Estonia source
199926 October - Five Lao student leaders are arrested for attempting to organize a peaceful protest demanding democratic reforms.Laos source
1999December 19 — President Obasanjo orders troops to raid the town of Odi in the Niger Delta, in response to the murders of twelve policemen at the hands of local militia; The troops razed the town of Odi.Nigeria source
1999The Ng Ka Ling v Director of Immigration and Lau Kong Yung v Director of Immigration cases, regarding the Right of abode in Hong Kong was decided.Hong Kong source