WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published classified documents that had been leaked by Chelsea Manning.

Opening statements are read in the murder trial of cult leader Charles Manson and three of his followers.

Police in North Carolina were called to investigate a potential case of illegal adoption. A toddler’s mother had traded them for a 1992 Plymouth Laser.

51-year-old Anthony Sowell, a registered sex offender, murdered 11 women over a two-year period. He was convicted and sentenced to death.

In South Africa, Nobel laureate and ANC president Albert Luthuli died after being struck by a train.

After a mob killed American Robert Imbrie, Iranian commander Reza Khan declared martial law in Tehran.

Melanie McGuire was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband three years earlier. His body was found in multiple suitcases off the coast of Virginia.

Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo at her West Hollywood apartment.

In a small, rural town south of Orlando, three men on a catfishing excursion were brutally murdered.

A large group of men pulled off a weekend-long bank heist in Nice, France. It netted the thieves 46 million francs worth of valuables.

Two teenage boys found the body of 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield in a Washington river. She was the first known victim of Gary Ridgway.

A New Mexico sheriff tracked down Billy the Kid and fatally shot the outlaw, ending his spree of thefts and murders.

Serial killer Richard Speck broke into a townhouse and killed eight nursing students in Chicago. It likely would have been nine had he not lost track of how many women he was holding hostage.

Valerio Viccei, also known as the Wolf, was the mastermind behind Great Britain’s largest bank heist. In under two hours, his crew broke into 121 safety deposit boxes.

A man posing as a delivery driver murdered attorney Marc Angelucci. Eight days later, the same shooter may have ambushed the family of Judge Esther Salas.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas agreed to pay a large settlement to former altar boys who were sexually abused by Father Rudolph Kos.

Neo-Nazis bombed the car of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in retaliation for their work demanding justice for Holocaust victims.

Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani and his niece were killed by a car bomb planted by the Mossad.

Enron founder and former CEO Kenneth Lay was indicted for fraud after the company’s 2001 bankruptcy.

During a routine traffic stop, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez.

In a 6 to 3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained using a faulty search warrant could still be used in court if the officers acted in good faith.

White Americans took to the streets across the nation after the world’s first Black heavyweight champion defeated former champ Jim Jeffries.

A U.S. naval warship mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for an enemy aircraft and fired on it, killing all 290 civilians on board.

23-year-old Sebastian Shaw murdered 40-year-old Jay Rickbeil in Portland, Oregon. Shaw later claimed to have killed “10 or 12 other people.”

ith backing from the United Nations, the International Criminal Court opened.