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Andrew, John
Bush, George Walker
Davis, Angela
Davis, Jefferson
De Lorean, John
Hendrix, John Allen
Jackson, Michael
King, Martin Luther
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Parks, Rosa
Pritchard, Benjamin
Ray, James Earl
Ruby, Jack
Tyson, Mike
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Birmingham
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London
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New York
Tarrytown
Tikrit
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| | 1780 | Andrew, John | |
| 23rd Sep Tarrytown Captured near Tarrytown carrying plans for Benedict Arnold's surrender of West Point |
| 1831 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| the Indian chieftain, Blackhawk, is captured & placed in the charge of Lieutenant Davis |
| 1865 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| 22nd May Washington Captured by the Union cavalry led by Benjamin Pritchard |
| 1865 | Pritchard, Benjamin | |
| 22nd May Captures the defeated Confederate's President Jefferson Davis |
| 1955 | Parks, Rosa | |
| 1st Dec Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man |
| 1st Dec The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by ED Nixon (head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and led by Martin Luther King follows Rosa Parks ' arrest |
| 1958 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Found guilty of using "provoking words" in a quarrel with a sergeant |
| 1961 | Hendrix, John Allen | |
| Arrested for stealing a car & given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the army, Hendrix chooses the latter and enlists |
| 1963 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Birmingham King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham; writes Letter From Birmingham City Jail, arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust. laws |
| 1963 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Arrested for fighting while passing out fliers for the FPC Committee |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Hands out Fair Play for Cuba Committee & becomes involved in a fight with Carlos Bringuier |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Oswald is arrested in altercation passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets |
| 12th Aug New Orleans Found guilty & fined $12 for fighting Carlos Bringuier |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Oswald is captured in the Texas Theater, where the movie War Is Hell (starring Audie Murphy) is playing |
| 1963 | Ruby, Jack | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Arrested for the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1967 | Mailer, Norman Kingsley | |
| Arrested for his involvement in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations |
| 1968 | Ray, James Earl | |
| 8th June London Arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King by Scotland Yard at London airport |
| 1969 | Ray, James Earl | |
| 10th Mar London Ray is extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder, confessing to the assassination, though he recants this confession three days later |
| 1970 | Davis, Angela | |
| 13th Oct New York Arrested in NYC on kidnapping, murder & conspiracy charges |
| 1982 | De Lorean, John | |
| De Lorean is arrested & charged with smuggling cocaine to raise money |
| 1991 | Tyson, Mike | |
| 22nd July Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room 3 days earlier, Tyson is later convicted of rape and served three years in prison |
| 2002 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 11th Jan Guantanamo Bay The 1st al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay |
| 2003 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 13th Dec Tikrit Saddam Hussein is captured by USAsoldiers in a 6ft by 8ft hole |
| 2003 | Jackson, Michael | |
| 20th Nov Gives himself up to police over allegations of child abuse |
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