| 5th September 1847 | Jesse James born
The infamous bank robber and gun slinger
For more information see :http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/history/jessejames.asp
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| 23rd November 1859 | Billy the Kid born
The infamous outlaw made famous in the movies was responsible for many peoples deaths before he was killed himself at 21.
For more information see :http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/oct/papr/billykid.html
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| 19th July 1860 | Lizzie Borden born
The axe murder of her parents that is immortised in the childrens verse
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
For more information see :http://www.crimelibrary.com/lizzie/lizziemain.htm
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| 6th April 1866 | Butch Cassidy born
Born Robert LeRoy Parker he teamed up with Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) to form the outlaws revered in the film that bears the names. Their mysterious ending also spawned the TV series Alias Smith and Jones.
For more information see :http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CASSIDY,BUTCH.html
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| 11th November 1880 | Australian bushwacker Ned Kelly is hanged
Australias's Robin Hood, only he wasn'y Australian but Irish, didn't give to the poor and wasn't notiably merry.
For more information see :http://www.ironoutlaw.com/
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| 14th July 1881 | Billy the Kid (William Bonney) is killed
The teenage wildwest legend whos image was probably bigger than the reality.
For more information see :http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/
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| 3rd April 1882 | Jessie James is killed
The wildwest outlaw of film and reality
For more information see :http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/
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| 6th August 1890 | The Electric Chair is introduced as a form of execution in New York
The ideal gift for the Mother-in-law
For more information see :http://www.ccadp.org/electricchair.htm
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| 18th July 1895 | George "Machine Gun" Kelly born
The notorious gangster from the prohibition era who earned the title of Public Enemy Number 1
For more information see :http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/mgk.htm
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| 17th January 1899 | Al Capone born
Infamous Chicago gangster
For more information see :http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html
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| 22nd June 1903 | John Dillinger born
The small time crook, turned bank robber, turned Public Enemy Number 1
For more information see :http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/history/dillinger_john/dillinger_john.html
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| 22nd January 1905 | Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg when the army shoots 500 strikers
What started out as a peaceful demonstration ended up as a bloodbath with prehaps as many as 4600 people killed by the Tsar's troops for having the timerity to ask for better conditions. This was probably one of the nails in the Tsars own coffin.
For more information see :http://web.uvic.ca/geru/376/Bloody%20Sunday.htm
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| 31st July 1910 | Dr Crippen becomes the first person arrest as a result of wireless
The infamous wife murderer who tried to escape the country on the SS Laurentic with his mistress.
For more information see :http://www.met.police.uk/history/crippen.htm
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| 23rd November 1910 | Dr Crippen is hanged
The infamous wife murderer who tried to escape the country on the SS Laurentic with his mistress.
For more information see :http://www.met.police.uk/history/crippen.htm
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| 22nd August 1911 | The Mona Lisa is stolen
For more information see :http://www.kausal.com/leonardo/monalisa1.html
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| 14th February 1913 | Jimmy Hoffa born
Teamster Union boss with links to the mafia who dissppeared, presumably murdered. He was meant to spent 13 years in prison but President Nixon let him out after 4 years. Who said there was no honour amongst thieves
For more information see :http://www.coverups.com/hoffa.htm
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| 12th November 1923 | The Munich Beerhall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler
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| 1st April 1924 | Adolf Hitler imprisoned
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| 20th December 1924 | Hitler is released from prison
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| 14th February 1929 | St Valentines Day massacre in Chicago
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| 23rd May 1934 | Gangsters Bonnie and Clyde killed by police
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| 18th October 1939 | Lee Harvey Oswald born
JFKs Assassin, and the world is flat, and the moon is made of cheese. There probably were a couple of people who could have testified that he was responsible for the crime but they were too busy shooting the President at the time to notice.
For more information see :http://www.famoustexans.com/leeharveyoswald.htm
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| 3rd August 1941 | Martha Stewart born
The US home and garden supremo who was jailed for obstructing justice and lying to investigators
For more information see :http://www.marthatalks.com/
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| 30th March 1951 | Rosenbergs found guilt of spying in New York
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were at the centre of a soviet spy ring in the US that passed secrets from the US Atomic Weapons programme to the Soviets and was instrumental in them aquiring the bomb. The Rosenburgs were subsequently executed.
For more information see :http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM
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| 28th January 1953 | Death of Derek Bentley
Controversly Derek Bentley was executed for the murder of a police officer. The conviction was quoshed in 1998
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| 20th February 1954 | Patty Hearst born
The newspaper heiress who was kidnapped by the Symbionese (where ?) Liberation Army (there moto was "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of people". snappy huh!)
She eventually joined them and ended up being sentenced to 7 years until the President released after 22 months. No family influence there then.
For more information see :http://www.mistersf.com/notorious/notpattyindex.htm
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| 13th July 1955 | Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain
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| 11th February 1956 | Russian spys Burgess and Maclean surface in Moscow
Burgess and Maclean along with Philby and Blunt were infamous spys working inside British Intelligence for many years. Burgess and Maclean dissappeared from view, when suspicion arose, only to resurface in Moscow. Philby was suspected of warning them and later defected. Anthony Blunt was also involved in the spy ring but when he was finally unmasked no action was taken against him.
Such a fate was not shared by Sarah Tisdall who leaked the date that cruise missiles were to arrive in the UK as she went to jail. But consider the difference between the two. Sarah was a junior civil servant who did what she thought was in the nations interest. Blunt was the Queens art expert, moved in aristocratic circles and did what he thought was against the nations interested.
For more information see :http://www.bvalphaserver.com/article7880.html
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| 10th March 1957 | Osama bin Laden born
According to the FBI's most wanted list he is "CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS" and I thought the English were the masters of understatement.
Although in no way justifying his various horrendious crimes he is very much a creation of the CIA (Central Imbecile Agency) and the obssession that America has with communism.
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| 21st March 1960 | Sharpeville massacre
69 demonstrators were killed and 180 where injured when police opened fire on the protest against the racist pass laws.
For more information see :http://www.rebirth.co.za/apartheid_sharpeville_massacre.htm
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| 19th August 1960 | U2 spyplane pilot Gary Powers jailed
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| 11th April 1961 | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann put on trial
Eichmann was responsible for the policy of exterminating the Jewish race. At the end of the war he escaped to Argentina where, in 1960 he was traced and abducted by Mossad agents who returned him to Israel where he was tried and executed.
For more information see :http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/eichmann.htm
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| 10th February 1962 | Spy Plane pilot Gary Powers released by Russians
Gary Powers was flying a U2 spy plane on a mission over the Soviet Union when it was brought down by anti-aircraft fire of some sort. The U2 was designed to fly above possible AA fire looks like the CIA got that one wrong.
He was released from prison as part of a swap for a Russian spy that the Americans had captured.
For more information see :http://www.aiipowmia.com/koreacw/powers.html
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| 8th August 1963 | Great Train Robbery
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| 22nd November 1963 | President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
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| 24th November 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald murdered
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| 18th June 1965 | Drink Drive limit introduced into Britain
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| 8th July 1965 | Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs escapes from jail
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| 20th March 1966 | The Jules Rimet World Cup trophy is stolen
The Trophy on display in the run up to the 1966 finals was stolen, although later recovered by a dog! At the time the Brazilians, the then holders, went ape. Subsequently when they won the trophy for the third time in 1970 it was awarded to them permanently. It was then stolen and never recovered. An expression about glass houses and stones comes to mind.
For more information see :http://www.worldcup.daegu.kr/english/FIFA_Overview.htm
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| 6th May 1966 | Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley convicted
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| 22nd October 1966 | Spy George Blake escapes from prison
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| 18th January 1967 | The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo sentenced to life imprisonment
Whilst he claimed to be the Boston Strangler he was actually imprisoned for other offences
For more information see :http://www.karisable.com/skazdesalv.htm
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| 17th December 1968 | 11 year old Mary Bell found guilty of double murder
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| 4th March 1969 | Kray Twins found guilty of murder
Ronnie and Reggie Kray along with there older and dimmer brother, Charlie, were responsible for the organised crime in the east of London since the fifties. They were noted for the ruthlessness and their brutality.
For more information see :http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/kray%20reggie.htm
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| 16th December 1969 | Capital punishment abolished for murder
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| 30th January 1972 | 13 Killed by British Army on Bloody Sunday
During the course of a demonstration shooting by members of the Paratroop regiment resulted in 13 people being killed. It has been suggested that this incident was the best recruiting sargeant that the IRA ever had.
After many years of campaigning an inquiry was held into the matter. It is noteworthy that to date the IRA have not demanded any inquiries into any of the attrocities that they committed.
For more information see :http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/
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| 4th August 1972 | Governor George Wallace crippled after attempted assassination
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| 11th September 1973 | CIA backed Coup overthrows democratic government of Chile and installs dictator
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| 5th February 1974 | Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst kidnapped
The newspaper heiress who was kidnapped by the Symbionese (where ?) Liberation Army (there moto was "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of people". snappy huh!)
She eventually joined them and ended up being sentenced to 7 years until the President released after 22 months. No family influence there then.
For more information see :http://www.mistersf.com/notorious/notpattyindex.htm
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| 15th March 1974 | Corrupt architect John Poulson jailed for 7 years
John Poulson built his business by bribing various politicians to allow his projects to proceed and to obtain business from councils. He eventually got his come uppence along with a few others including Tory Cabinet Minister Reginald Maudling. How unusual a tory MP on the take!
For more information see :http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1993/02/poulson.htm
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| 20th March 1974 | Attempt to kidnap Princess Anne thwarted
An armed assalant attempted to kidnap the Princess from a car as she returned to Buckingham Palace with her then husband Mark Philips.
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| 5th October 1974 | Guildford pub bombings
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| 8th November 1974 | Lord Lucan goes on the run
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| 21st November 1974 | Birmingham pub bombings
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| 24th December 1974 | Disgraced MP John Stonehouse returns from the dead
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| 14th January 1975 | Seventeen year old heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped
Lesley was kidnapped and held for £50,000 ransom by Donald Neilson. However things went wrong and he eventually murdered her.
For more information see :http://www.answers.com/topic/lesley-whittle
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| 7th March 1975 | Kidnapped heiress Lesley Whittle found dead
Lesley was kidnapped and held for £50,000 ransom by Donald Neilson. However things went wrong and he eventually murdered her.
For more information see :http://www.answers.com/topic/lesley-whittle
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| 4th July 1976 | Israeli commandos free hostages at Entebbe
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| 17th January 1977 | Death of Gary Gilmore
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed in Salt Lake City. He was the first person to be executed since capital punishment had been suspended in 1967
For more information see :http://gary-gilmore.biography.ms/
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| 27th August 1979 | Lord Mountbatten murder by IRA bomb
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| 4th November 1979 | US Embassy in Tehran stormed
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| 5th May 1980 | SAS storm Iranian embassy to end seige
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| 21st January 1981 | American Hostages in Iran freed
After 444 days the hostages captured from the US Embassy in Tehran. America had become hated in Iran because it was their power that kept the Shah in power since the fifties. Needless to say if the 'land of the free' supported someone you can be certain that freedom won't be on the menu. The reality is that their years of supporting a despote placed their own people at risk.
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| 30th March 1981 | President Ronald Regan shot
John Hinckley shot the president, along with a press aid, a policeman and a Secret Service office to impress the Actress Jodie Foster. A nice bunch of flowers or box of Cadburys Mini Heros might have been a better idea.
He was eventually found to be insane, John Hinckley that is not the President although......
For more information see :http://www.paperlessarchives.com/reagan_assassination_attempt.html
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| 13th May 1981 | Pope John Paul II shot
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| 22nd May 1981 | The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, jailed for life
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| 9th July 1982 | Michael Fagin breaks into the Queens bedroom
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| 31st January 1983 | Mandatory seat belts introduced into Britain
It becomes illegal to sit in the front of a car without a seat belt, although certain groups of people are exluded including |
| 17th April 1984 | WPC Yvonne Fletcher shot from Libyan embassy
Whilst controling a small demonstration outside the Libyan embassy shots were fired from inside the embassy killing the policewoman. The Libyans claimed diplomatic immunity and where allowed to leave the embassy. There are times when diplomacy is not the best approach and this was clearly one of them.
For more information see :http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1078819,00.html
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| 27th April 1984 | Libyan embassy seige ends
Whilst controling a small demonstration outside the Libyan embassy shots were fired from inside the embassy killing the policewoman. An 11 day seige then ensured. The Libyans claimed diplomatic immunity and were allowed to leave the embassy. There are times when diplomacy is not the best approach and this was clearly one of them.
For more information see :http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1078819,00.html
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| 12th October 1984 | Bombing of Tory party conference at Brighton
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| 31st October 1984 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated
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| 10th July 1985 | French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
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| 7th October 1985 | Terroists hijack the cruise ship Achille Lauro
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| 2nd February 1987 | Terry Waite kidnapped in Beruit
Terry went Beirut as a special envoy from the Arch Bishop of Canterbury in an attempt to negotiate the release of other terrorist. Unfortunately the terrorists decided to add him to their number for the next five years. During this time the terroists were baffled why no one would negotiate with them and hence why they achieved nothing.
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| 19th August 1987 | Michael Ryan kills 14 people in Hungerford
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| 23rd October 1987 | Champion jockey Lester Piggott jailed for tax evasion
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| 8th November 1987 | Enniskillen rememberence Day bomb
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| 16th March 1988 | 1000s killed by gas attack on Halabja
In the region of 5000 people, mainly women and children, were killed when Saddam Hussain ordered the attack on the Kurdish town. Mustard gas, sarin and VX gas were amongst the weapons used on the people.
The international community blew some hot air but did nothing else. Probalbly from U.S. President Reagans point of view kill a few thousand Kurds was a small price to pay when Saddam was fight the nasty Iranians.
For more information see :http://www.kdp.pp.se/chemical.html
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| 21st December 1988 | Panam Jumbo jet brought down over Lockerbie
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| 13th May 1989 | Jackie Mann taken hostage in Beruit
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| 4th June 1989 | Tiananmen Square massacre
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| 19th October 1989 | Guildford four freed
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| 31st March 1990 | Anti Poll Tax riot in London
The last time a poll tax was introduced into Britain it caused the Peasants Revolt, a fact the was pointed out to the then Prime Minister, Margeret Thatcher. But as usual she thought she knew better. There was a strong and persistent campaign against it that culminated in a riot sparked by a small group of extremists.
Rent a mob consider that there actions brought Margeret Thatcher down, but the truth is it more to do with the inability to actually collect the tax.
For more information see :http://www.caliach.com/paulr/news/polltax/
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| 11th April 1990 | Iraqi supergun seized by British customs
The supergun's barrel was being manufactured in Britain with the knowledge of the intelligence services but no one else. Fortunately Customs discovered the the oil pipelines were part of a giant gun. The signifcance of its size was that it could launch a projectile into space and therefore nowhere would have been safe.
For more information see :http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/babongun.htm
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| 14th March 1991 | Birmingham 6 freed
The Birmingham six were wrongly accused and eventually found guillty of plant number of bombs in Birmingham. After 16 years the were released when the conviction was quoshed. Although there maybe some police officers who's conduct can be brought in to question it is also notable that the IRA did nothing to help the release of the six men when clearly they knew who was really responsible.
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| 8th August 1991 | Beruit hostage Jounalist John McCarthy freed
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| 5th November 1991 | Crooked publisher Robert Maxwell dies
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| 18th November 1991 | Beruit Hostage Terry Waite freed
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| 26th February 1993 | World Trade Centre bomb
The first attempt to destroy the World Trade Centre
For more information see :http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/wtc93.htm
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| 19th April 1993 | Waco seige ends
The religious sect known as the Branch Davadians led by David Koresh resisted a raid by the ATF searching for illegal arms and explosives. In the resultant fire 76 members of the sect where killed.
For more information see :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/431311.stm
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| 24th April 1993 | IRA Bomb city of London
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| 30th April 1993 | Tennis player Monica Seles stabbed
The young tennis player was stabbed by Gunther Parche, a fan of Steffi Graf who had just been diposed as number 1 by Seles. Someone should have told him it's only a game
For more information see :http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Dropzone/6766/sel.html
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| 21st April 1994 | Guildford four cleared
The Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of planting bombs in pubs in Guildford and Woolwich. After 15 years in prison their convictions were quoshed
For more information see :http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/Guildford_Four
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| 17th March 1995 | Death of Ronnie Kray
Ronnie and Reggie Kray along with there older and dimmer brother, Charlie, were responsible for the organised crime in the east of London since the fifties. They were noted for the ruthlessness and their brutality.
For more information see :http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/kray%20reggie.htm
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| 19th April 1995 | Oklahoma bombing
In an attack by white supremesist 168 people were killed when a bomb exploded destroying a major part of the building. Timothy McVeigh the first culprit to be arrested was subsequently executed.
For more information see :http://www.okcbombing.org/
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| 9th June 1995 | Andrew Richards becomes the first man to be jailed for attempted male rape in Britain
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| 2nd December 1995 | Nick Leeson jailed for Barrings fraud
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| 15th July 1997 | Fashion designer Gianni Versace murdered
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| 17th November 1997 | Terrorists kill 68 tourists at Luxor
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| 7th August 1998 | US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed
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| 15th August 1998 | Omagh bombing
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| 20th April 1999 | Columbine High school massacre
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris both students from the school went on a killing rampage through the school killing 13. Subsequently a bill to tighten gun control was thrown out by Congress...go figure
For more information see :http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20/newsid_2489000/2489639.stm
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| 8th June 1999 | Former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken jailed for perjury
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| 31st January 2000 | Britains worse ever serial killer, Harold Shipman, sentenced to Life
Shipman was a doctor who killed his patients through most of his career. The inquiry into his activities eventually established that he murdered at least 215 people and probably 260 people although it could be higher still.
For more information see :http://www.nhi.clara.net/shipman0.htm
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| 1st May 2000 | May Day anti-capitalist riots in London
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| 1st June 2001 | The heir to the Nepalese throne massacres his own family
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| 11th September 2001 | Attack on World Trade Centers twin towers
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| 12th October 2002 | Bali nightclub bombing
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| 29th January 2003 | Sally Clark is cleared of murdering her sons
Sally Clark was falsely accused of murdering her two sons, essentially on the word of a, now, discredited doctor. After spending 3 years in jail she was released and the conviction quashed. To add insult to injury a second doctor accused her husband of commiting the murders based on watching a single TV programme. He too has, reluctantly, been disciplined by the General Medical Council.
However the punishments metered out to these doctors were just restrictions on their continuing to practice. In virtually any other profession serious misconduct is dealt with by sacking the culprit. It is diffecult to find another job where the ramifications from misconduct are so severe. In Sally Clarks case it meant a prison sentence, in some other similar cases it has meant children being forcably adopted.
Their misconduct was not that of making mistakes but of acting in an arrogantly reckless manner. Being struck off for life was the minimum punishment that the GMC should have handed out, but argueably some of these doctors should themselves be staring a prison sentence in the face.
For more information see :http://www.sallyclark.org.uk/
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| 10th December 2003 | Angela Cannings cleared of murdering her sons
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| 17th December 2003 | Ian Huntley found guilty of Soham murders
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| 13th January 2004 | Death of Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman Britains worse ever serial killer is found hanged in his cell. No one shed a tear.
For more information see :http://www.nhi.clara.net/shipman0.htm
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| 11th March 2004 | Madrid trains bombed
Bombs planted on four trains exploded almost simultaniously killing 186 people and injuring almost 600 more.
For more information see :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3504912.stm
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