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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
1993
2005
1971
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
1998
1996
SENTENCE READ ON THIS DAY IN 1992
John Joseph Gotti Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002)
Mafia boss John Gotti (above), who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don”
after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is
sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts
of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after
his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds
of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building along with smashing
and overturned cars before being forced back by police officers.
HIS TIME WAS SERVED ON THIS DAY IN 1949
Actor Robert Mitchum, center right, and actress Lila Leeds, left, are sentenced to 60 days in jail on charges of conspiracy to possess marijuana cigarettes in Los Angeles, February 9, 1949.
Actor Robert Mitchum was released from a Los Angeles County prison farm
after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana
possession there.
In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night
of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel Canyon area
of Los Angeles when detectives burst in and arrested him. Mitchum reportedly
said at the time, “Well, this is the bitter end of everything—my career, my
marriage, everything.” In fact, it wasn’t really that bad. Mitchum was separated
from his wife Dorothy at the time, but the two reconciled when she returned to
support him through the scandal and the public didn’t mind much either;
Rachel and the Stranger, the first movie released after his troubles,
was a box-office hit.
1948
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)
A lifelong heavy smoker, Mitchum died on July 1, 1997, in Santa Barbara,
California, due to complications of lung cancer and emphysema. He was
about five weeks shy of his 80th birthday.
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