1216: The Poison Toad Theory Behind the Death of King John of England
Legend has it that King John of England was not felled by illness but by a monk's revenge. Read more →
1960: Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested in an Atlanta Sit-In, Then Sentenced to Hard Labour
Martin Luther King Jr. Read more →
1973: Nixon Defies the Courts: the Watergate Tapes Standoff That Doomed a Presidency
Richard Nixon had a choice: hand over the secret Oval Office recordings a court had ordered released, or dig in. Read more →
1989: The Confession That Was Buried for 12 Years: the Guildford Four Finally Freed
The Guildford Four were four young people wrongly convicted over a pub bombing campaign carried out by the IRA in Guildford, England, in 1974, and sentenced to life in prison after detectives extracted confessions during lengthy, uncharged interrogations. Read more →
2003: Melbourne Gangland Victim Found Executed with His Partner in Their Own Home
Istvan 'Steve' Gulyas ran a dating agency out of Sunbury, on the outskirts of Melbourne, that police suspected was really a front for a brothel. Read more →
2005: The Trial of Saddam Hussein Begins Over Crimes Against Humanity
Saddam Hussein, once the fifth president of Iraq, stood in the dock in Baghdad on this day in 2005 alongside seven co-defendants, charged with crimes against humanity before the newly formed Iraqi Special Tribunal. Read more →
