— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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1658-08-12 |
1st American police force forms (New Amsterdam) |
1693-07-08 |
NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies |
1829-06-19 |
Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) |
1829-09-29 |
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". |
1830-03-16 |
London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) |
1835-11-24 |
Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government |
1848-07-29 |
Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. |
1865-04-24 |
Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF) |
1866-07-30 |
New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. |
1873-05-23 |
Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms |
1874-01-13 |
Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injuried |
1874-07-08 |
The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin |
1881-11-05 |
1,600 police and volunteers attack Māori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Māori land, New Zealand |
1884-02-18 |
Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" |
1884-11-01 |
The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) |
1885-11-23 |
Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united |
1890-11-27 |
1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation |
1902-02-11 |
Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels |
1902-04-15 |
Russian minister of interior and head of secret police, Sipyengin, is assassinated by the 'Terror Brigade' of the Socialist Revolutionaries |
1903-01-21 |
Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam |
1904-09-09 |
Mounted police 1st used in NYC |
1904-10-28 |
St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints |
1906-04-07 |
Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business |
1907-01-26 |
J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called |
1907-12-10 |
The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected. |
1912-08-22 |
Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya) |
1913-08-31 |
Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police |
1916-04-02 |
57 armed New Zealand police invade the remote Ngāi Tūhoe settlement of Maungapōhatu in the Urewera Ranges to arrest the Māori prophet Rua Kēnana |
1916-11-05 |
The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police. |
1917-11-24 |
Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building. |
1919-09-09 |
Boston's police force forms strike |
1919-11-07 |
US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers |
1920-02-01 |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police |
1921-03-06 |
Police in Sunbury, Penn, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee |
1921-05-24 |
Bulhoek Massacre of Israelites takes place near Queenstown when Colonel Theodore Truter, a police commissioner, leads 6 squadrons, a machine gun and an artillery detachment against the Israelite religious sect collected at their annual gathering on the land of their leader and prophet, Enoch Mgijima at Ntabalanga; the slaughter takes 10 minutes and costs 190 lives |
1922-03-22 |
The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa is brought to a brutal end by the police; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
1923-05-04 |
Bloody street battles between nazis, socialist & police in Vienna |
1925-11-06 |
British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. |
1927-04-27 |
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. |
1927-07-15 |
Massacre in Vienna: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police |
1928-12-11 |
Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover |
1929-05-01 |
Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin |
1929-09-16 |
Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed |
1929-12-29 |
Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders |
1930-04-18 |
Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da. |
1930-12-23 |
Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC |
1932-01-02 |
Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
1932-03-17 |
German police raid Hitler's Nazi headquarter |
1932-07-20 |
In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House. |
1933-02-26 |
Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell |
1933-04-01 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany |
1933-06-13 |
German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Göring |
1933-07-10 |
1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY |
1933-08-30 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) |
1934-04-01 |
Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers |
1934-04-20 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police |
1934-07-05 |
"Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. |
1935-12-08 |
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi. |
1937-03-21 |
Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade |
1937-05-30 |
Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die |
1937-05-30 |
Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago |
1938-12-08 |
LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police |
1939-11-22 |
Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant |
1940-09-03 |
Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross |
1941-02-12 |
Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" |
1941-02-19 |
Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews) |
1941-08-20 |
Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males |
1942-07-16 |
French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
1943-03-22 |
SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children |
1943-06-18 |
SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau |
1944-05-12 |
Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat |
1944-05-16 |
Military police attack gypsies |
1944-08-04 |
Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified |
1944-08-19 |
Paris police strike against nazi occupiers |
1945-01-17 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary |
1945-03-07 |
Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance, Rauter injured |
1945-03-21 |
Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police |
1945-05-23 |
British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz |
1948-07-28 |
The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport". |
1948-12-20 |
Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia |
1948-12-31 |
Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike |
1949-03-25 |
SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied |
1950-06-15 |
Dutch police seize condoms |
1950-08-07 |
Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League |
1951-04-20 |
Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators |
1953-10-14 |
1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
1958-01-29 |
Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming |
1960-03-21 |
Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC |
1960-06-06 |
South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
1961-09-01 |
The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate |
1961-10-09 |
US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police |
1961-10-17 |
Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians |
1962-08-04 |
Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
1963-04-12 |
Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators |
1963-06-30 |
Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo. |
1963-09-09 |
Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
1964-06-11 |
Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference |
1964-12-03 |
Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley |
1966-01-31 |
Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers |
1966-06-14 |
Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured |
1968-02-01 |
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
1968-05-11 |
Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured |
1968-07-23 |
Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed |
1968-08-28 |
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Demcratic National Convention |
1968-10-02 |
Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed |
1968-10-09 |
About 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's Democracy—was formed |
1968-10-18 |
Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt |
1969-01-04 |
A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers |
1969-06-23 |
Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; it is alleged that they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Province |
1969-06-27 |
Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days |
1969-12-08 |
Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA |
1970-03-10 |
Members of the Stormont (Parliament of Northern Ireland) given police protection |
1970-03-26 |
The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force |
1970-08-07 |
4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) |
1972-01-01 |
Policewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time. |
1972-06-01 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
1972-06-15 |
West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
1972-08-18 |
Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession |
1972-08-21 |
Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs |
1972-09-20 |
Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm |
1973-12-28 |
The 'The Gulag Archipelago', a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is published in the original Russian in Paris |
1974-02-22 |
Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators |
1974-02-28 |
Taiwan police shoots into crowd |
1976-02-01 |
East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to |
1976-03-03 |
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. |
1977-06-23 |
Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests |
1977-07-07 |
12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City |
1977-08-15 |
Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
1978-05-20 |
3 PFLP members kill a police officer near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris |
1978-08-18 |
Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters |
1978-10-20 |
Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs) |
1978-12-21 |
Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder |
1979-02-14 |
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. |
1979-04-23 |
Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach. |
1979-09-29 |
"Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK |
1980-01-31 |
Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 |
1980-03-26 |
Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) |
1980-05-05 |
Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British SAS & police storm the building |
1980-05-27 |
South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed |
1980-05-31 |
Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich |
1980-06-19 |
Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed |
1980-06-27 |
1st female state police graduates (NJ) |
1980-09-27 |
Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms. |
1981-01-04 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" |
1981-01-05 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women |
1981-03-26 |
Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia |
1981-07-29 |
Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa's Consul, New Zealand. |
1982-12-04 |
Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp |
1982-12-08 |
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives) |
1983-04-17 |
In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters |
1983-11-30 |
Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam |
1984-04-17 |
During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead |
1984-12-31 |
NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH |
1985-02-13 |
Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders |
1985-05-13 |
Philadelphia police attack a house held by group "Move", 11 killed |
1985-07-09 |
South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
1985-08-19 |
Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa |
1986-01-16 |
Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam |
1986-02-25 |
Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel |
1987-01-13 |
West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
1988-07-16 |
Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton |
1988-08-06 |
The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7. |
1988-10-02 |
Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens |
1988-12-02 |
"Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad" |
1988-12-22 |
2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ |
1989-01-16 |
Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague |
1989-09-06 |
Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution |
1989-09-29 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills |
1990-02-07 |
Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators |
1990-02-19 |
Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal |
1990-02-28 |
Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine |
1990-06-14 |
Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional |
1990-06-23 |
Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home |
1990-07-11 |
NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) |
1990-07-16 |
The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa |
1990-10-08 |
Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters |
1991-03-03 |
LA Police severly beat motorist Rodney King, captured on amateur video |
1991-03-15 |
4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King |
1991-05-05 |
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police. |
1991-05-30 |
Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable |
1991-06-19 |
Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police |
1992-02-05 |
Jury selection begins in the LA police beating Rodney King case |
1992-04-29 |
Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin |
1992-06-27 |
Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief |
1992-06-28 |
LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down |
1992-09-01 |
NYC police commisioner Brown resigns |
1993-02-03 |
Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif |
1993-04-16 |
Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against police officer who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th |
1993-04-17 |
Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights |
1993-05-18 |
Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola |
1993-10-16 |
Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters |
1993-10-19 |
UN authorizes arms, military & police supply embargo against Haiti |
1994-03-18 |
South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
1994-04-19 |
Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation for his police beating |
1994-06-11 |
Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden |
1995-02-22 |
Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters |
1995-03-13 |
Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators |
1995-04-02 |
NY Police Dept & NY Transit Police merge into one organization |
1995-05-16 |
Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier |
1997-05-02 |
Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy |
1997-08-09 |
Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police |
1997-10-30 |
Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured |
1997-11-17 |
In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants). |
1997-11-18 |
70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe |
1998-02-28 |
Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. |
1998-07-24 |
Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. |
1999-02-04 |
Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. |
1999-05-28 |
Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase. |
1999-07-09 |
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran. |
1999-11-30 |
In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. |
2000-07-09 |
Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe |
2000-12-13 |
The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas later going on a crime spree and killing police officer Aubrey Hawkins |
2000-12-24 |
The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery. |
2001-04-01 |
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |
2001-05-09 |
In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko. |
2001-06-27 |
Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country. |
2001-07-20 |
Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. |
2002-10-24 |
Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC. |
2003-09-12 |
In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. |
2003-11-12 |
Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. |
2003-12-24 |
Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station. |
2004-01-21 |
Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar. |
2004-04-03 |
Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. |
2005-02-28 |
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. |
2005-03-03 |
Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
2005-07-22 |
Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings |
2005-12-08 |
Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. |
2006-03-24 |
Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police. |
2006-03-25 |
Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. |
2006-08-31 |
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition. |
2006-11-24 |
Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing. |
2007-05-01 |
The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy. |
2007-06-27 |
The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre. |
2007-07-27 |
Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history. |
2007-10-18 |
After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured. |
2008-03-02 |
Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths. |
2009-07-30 |
A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible. |
2010-08-23 |
Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals. |
2012-03-04 |
Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado |
2012-03-05 |
27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha |
2012-05-29 |
Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million |
2012-06-29 |
16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police |
2012-08-16 |
South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people |
2012-08-29 |
Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed |
2012-09-16 |
8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey |
2012-10-01 |
3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan |
2013-01-24 |
Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya |
2013-01-25 |
6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt's 2011 revolution |
2013-01-27 |
20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
2013-02-14 |
A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan |
2013-04-11 |
14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico |
2013-04-23 |
28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq |
2013-05-06 |
13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka |
2013-07-24 |
22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan |
2013-08-14 |
638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt |
2013-08-20 |
9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus |
2015-11-25 |
Chicago protesters march, block streets after police release shooting video |
2015-12-03 |
Swiss police arrest FIFA officials suspected of taking millions in bribes |
2015-12-05 |
3 stabbed at London tube station in terror attack, police say |
2016-01-01 |
Police: 2 killed, at least 4 wounded in Tel Aviv pub shooting |
2016-01-21 |
Explosion in Egypt kills at least 6, including police officers |
2016-03-05 |
Police say story of knife found at OJ Simpson house may be bogus |
2016-03-05 |
Knife found at OJ Simpson's former LA home studied by police |
2016-03-12 |
Police Use Pepper Spray to Disperse Protesters Outside Trump Rally in Kansas City |
2016-03-14 |
Maryland Shooting Outside Police Station Leaves One Officer Dead |
2016-03-20 |
Anti-Trump Protesters Block Road in Arizona and Clash With Police in New York |
2016-03-25 |
Six arrests in Brussels police operation after bombings |
2016-04-01 |
Indian police file homicide case after overpass collapse kills 23 |
2016-04-03 |
Turkey violence: Five soldiers, one police dead in Nusaybin bomb |
2016-05-17 |
Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area - police |
2016-05-24 |
Baltimore police officer cleared over Freddie Gray death |
2016-05-25 |
Protesters Throw Rocks at Police Horses Outside Trump Rally in Albuquerque |
2016-06-08 |
Chinese police require DNA for passports in Xinjiang |
2016-06-16 |
French police arrest 36 after clashes with England fans |
2016-07-08 |
Snipers kill five Dallas police, wound six during protests over police shootings |
2016-07-13 |
Baton Rouge Police Arrest 3 in Plot to Shoot at Officers |
2016-07-13 |
Five fallen Dallas police officers honored at interfaith service |
2016-07-17 |
Vietnam Police Detain Dozens in Anti-China Protest |
2016-07-21 |
Eighteen protesters arrested in Cleveland after scuffle with police |
2016-08-06 |
UK Police Charge 19-Year-Old With London Stabbings |
2016-08-11 |
New York police arrest man trying to climb Trump Tower |
2016-08-14 |
US|Fires Burn in Milwaukee After a Fatal Police Shooting |
2016-08-15 |
Milwaukee Shaken by Eruption of Violence After Shooting by Police |
2016-08-17 |
Turkey dismisses more than 2000 police officers over coup bid |
2016-08-18 |
Brazil police pull US swimmers from flight in robbery probe |
2016-08-24 |
Brazil police probe money laundering tied to Olympic ticket ring |
2016-08-26 |
Brazilian Police Recommend Charges Against Ryan Lochte |
2016-08-28 |
Man Confesses to Killing 2 Nuns in Rural Mississippi, the Police Say |
2016-09-22 |
Man fatally shot in Charlotte protests over US police shooting |
2016-09-24 |
4 Dead in Shooting at Mall in Washington State, Police Say |
2016-09-25 |
Suspect in shooting at Washington state mall captured: state police |
2016-09-29 |
Protests continue over police-involved shooting of unarmed black man in El Cajon, Calif. |
2016-10-09 |
2 Police Officers Are Shot and Killed in Palm Springs, Calif. |
2016-11-04 |
Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in 'Ambush' Killings of 2 Officers |
2017-04-11 |
Egyptian police kill seven suspected Islamic State militants in shootout |
2017-04-17 |
Manhunt underway in Cleveland for suspect who broadcast killing on Facebook: Police |
2017-04-19 |
Police: Man kills 3 in Fresno, calls whites 'devils' |
2017-06-17 |
Minnesota officer fired from police force after acquittal in Philando Castile shooting |
2017-06-18 |
58 missing, presumed dead in London high-rise fire, police say |
2017-08-23 |
Police use gas to disperse protesters outside Trump rally in Phoenix |
2018-02-26 |
Florida to investigate police response to school shooting that killed 17 |
2018-03-25 |
Mexican police find bodies of 15 men crammed into pickup |
2018-04-27 |
Genealogy websites help California police find Golden State Killer suspect |
2018-07-07 |
UK police in protective suits investigate latest Novichok poisoning |
2018-07-08 |
British police continue hunt for poison used against ex-spy |
2018-07-29 |
Deadly California wildfire spreads as police report 17 people missing |
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Date | Event |
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1753-05-31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader |
1775-07-23 |
Francois-Eugene Vidocq, French criminal and police detective |
1843-01-08 |
Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929) |
1849-02-26 |
Daniel H. Hastings, Governor Hastings and Mounted Police |
1865-02-14 |
Carl Anderson, The Police Dog |
1865-04-05 |
George S. Dougherty, The Line-Up at Police Headquarters |
1869-05-04 |
Nick Cogley, Bangville Police |
1877-02-06 |
John Webb Dillon, The Veteran Mounted Police Horse |
1877-09-11 |
Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Ivyanets, Lithuania, Soviet statesman, established and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB) |
1877-11-24 |
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941) |
1878-08-22 |
Fred Mace, Bangville Police |
1881-02-06 |
Dot Farley, Bangville Police |
1892-08-09 |
Charles Delaney, NYC, actor (Air Police, Lonesome Trail) |
1895-02-04 |
Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth |
1899-03-18 |
Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin |
1901-04-16 |
Leo Poos, nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents) |
1903-09-29 |
Ted Decorsia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon) |
1908-02-04 |
Gwili Andre, Secrets of the French Police |
1909-01-10 |
Rita Tuckett, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
1913-09-13 |
Roy Engle, Mo, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian) |
1914-05-15 |
Blair Davies, Connecticut State Police |
1916-01-01 |
Beth Amos, Police Academy |
1916-07-04 |
Burton Zucker, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1917-07-15 |
William Yamadera, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1917-10-08 |
Kort Falkenberg, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1918-03-15 |
Nina Konsta, Police Raid |
1919-08-17 |
Paul Theodore, Police Academy |
1920-04-06 |
Robert Moncade, Halte... Police! |
1920-11-25 |
Ricardo Montalban, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1921-02-27 |
E. Jack Neuman, Police Story |
1921-12-18 |
Tony Brafa, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1922-01-18 |
Agathe Poschmann, Police Raid |
1922-07-17 |
Friedhelm von Petersson, Police Raid |
1922-07-23 |
Damiano Damiani, Confessions of a Police Captain |
1923-03-27 |
Hank Robinson, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1923-04-09 |
Arthur Batanides, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1923-10-13 |
Matty Azzarone, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1924-05-15 |
Robert Cherry, Police Rookies |
1925-03-23 |
David McNee, commissioner (Metropolitan Police) |
1925-07-25 |
Jerry Paris, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1926-02-11 |
Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1926-05-07 |
Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME) |
1927-10-15 |
Jeannette Charles, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1928-02-29 |
Terry Lewis, Australian police commissioner |
1928-03-12 |
Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority) |
1928-06-19 |
Nancy Marchand, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1928-09-11 |
Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic) |
1930-05-20 |
Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College) |
1930-06-01 |
Robert L. Collins, Police Woman |
1930-06-21 |
Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London) |
1931-03-03 |
Trevor Williams, Police Academy |
1931-06-05 |
John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police) |
1931-06-24 |
Leslie Cochran, Miami, Florida, peace activist and police critic, (d. 2012) |
1931-08-09 |
Jerry de Bono, Police Woman |
1931-09-30 |
Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman) |
1932-10-14 |
Don Guidice, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1933-01-25 |
William J. Caunitz, One Police Plaza |
1933-04-20 |
George R. Robertson, Police Academy |
1933-11-23 |
Paul Maslansky, Police Academy |
1934-03-17 |
Dennis W. Peeples, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1934-06-29 |
Michael Zenon, Police Academy |
1935-08-20 |
Grant Cowan, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
1936-01-23 |
Willoughby Sharp, Police State |
1936-03-01 |
Georgina Spelvin, Police Academy |
1936-07-02 |
Michael D. Margulies, Police Academy |
1936-09-11 |
Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisc, actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman) |
1936-9-22 |
Art Metrano, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
1937-01-22 |
Joseph Wambaugh, East Pittsburgh Pa, police writer (Onion Fields) |
1937-05-28 |
Paquito Diaz, Joe Pring: Homicide Manila Police |
1937-9-02 |
Cass Martin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1937-9-04 |
Nicholas Worth, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1938-08-06 |
Peter Bonerz, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1939-07-04 |
Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow) |
1940-07-01 |
Alan Myerson, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1941-06-23 |
Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense Attorney |
1942-12-31 |
Andy Summers, Blackpool England, rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne) |
1942-12-31 |
Andy Summers, The Police: Synchronicity Concert |
1943-05-27 |
Raye Birk, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1943-08-21 |
Hugh Wilson, Police Academy |
1943-12-07 |
Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department |
1944-04-20 |
Vladimir Dolinskiy, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow |
1944-05-18 |
Peter Ryan, British national director (Police Training) |
1944-08-27 |
G W Bailey, Port Arthur, Texas, American actor (Police Academy, The Closer) |
1944-08-27 |
G.W. Bailey, Police Academy |
1945-02-23 |
Frank Murray, police Officer |
1945-02-28 |
Charles "Bubba" Smith, Tx, NFLer (Balt Colts)/actor (Police Academy) |
1945-02-28 |
Bubba Smith, Police Academy |
1945-05-24 |
Priscilla Presley, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1945-08-02 |
Ron Scelza, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1945-11-20 |
Jay Johnstone, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1946-06-22 |
Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Police Academy) [or Jan 22] |
1946-06-22 |
Andrew Rubin, Police Academy |
1946-10-09 |
Nancy E. Barr, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1946-11-28 |
Joe Dante, director (Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins) |
1946-12-04 |
Yô Inoue, Patlabor: The Mobile Police |
1947-03-10 |
Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police |
1947-03-29 |
Glenn Kwann, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol |
1947-04-03 |
Pat Proft, Police Academy |
1947-05-10 |
Marion Ramsey, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1947-07-09 |
O.J. Simpson, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1947-10-16 |
David Zucker, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1947-9-29 |
Donovan Scott, Police Academy |
1949-07-29 |
Leslie Easterbrook, Los Angeles, California, American actress (The Devil's Rejects, Police Academy) |
1949-11-15 |
Wink Roberts, Police Academy |
1950-03-03 |
Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4) |
1950-03-11 |
Jerry Zucker, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1950-04-16 |
David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor (Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6) |
1950-04-16 |
David Graf, Police Academy |
1950-06-04 |
Åge Magnussen, Pelle the Police Car |
1950-10-11 |
Mark J. Goodman, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1950-9-12 |
Bruce Mahler, Police Academy |
1951-06-12 |
Bun E Carlos, [Brad Carlson], rock drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police) |
1951-10-02 |
Sting, [Gordon Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune) |
1951-11-09 |
Chi-Wing Lau, Police Story |
1952-02-16 |
Mark Oristano, Karma Police |
1952-07-16 |
Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne) |
1952-08-29 |
Brad Moranz, AD Police Files |
1952-10-31 |
Joe West, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1952-9-01 |
Phil Hendrie, Team America: World Police |
1953-03-04 |
Steven Meltzer, Team America: World Police |
1953-04-02 |
Debralee Scott, Police Academy |
1953-10-05 |
Robert Devine, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1954-10-20 |
Youko Matsuoka, AD Police Files |
1954-9-29 |
Jeff Breslauer, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1955-01-23 |
Robin Zander, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police) |
1955-07-13 |
Douglas Leonard Brecht, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
1955-9-15 |
Pamela Matheson, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1956-9-25 |
Debra Dusay, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1957-12-20 |
Matthew Dudenhoeffer, Karma Police |
1957-12-25 |
Jillie Mack, Police Story |
1958-04-24 |
Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer |
1958-07-19 |
Tsung-Sheng Lee, Police Story 3: Supercop |
1958-08-13 |
Kathryn Graf, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1958-08-24 |
Steve Guttenberg, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit) |
1958-08-24 |
Steve Guttenberg, Police Academy |
1958-9-29 |
Ken Tong, Police Story |
1959-06-04 |
Lauree Dash, Amazing Heroes: Spend the Day with Police Officers |
1959-07-24 |
Shawn Weatherly, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
1959-07-28 |
Joni Siani, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1960-02-29 |
Stephen Curwick, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1960-07-21 |
Takaaki Ishiyama, Dominion Tank Police |
1960-08-29 |
Pascale Rocard, Police |
1960-09-06 |
Michael Winslow, Spokane WA, actor/comedian (Police Academy) |
1960-9-12 |
Conrad Hurtt, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1961-01-10 |
Janet Jones, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1961-04-03 |
Randy Harvey, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1961-06-10 |
Steven Shayle Rhodes, Karma Police |
1961-06-17 |
Alex Pauljuk, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
1961-06-23 |
Yuriy Sysoev, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow |
1962-03-10 |
Tab Thacker, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
1962-05-26 |
Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse NY, comedian (Police Academy) |
1962-07-20 |
Dmitriy Chernigovskiy, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow |
1962-11-17 |
Brian Seeman, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
1963-07-18 |
Itsuji Itao, Tokyo Gore Police |
1963-08-02 |
Joe Shapiro, Police Beat |
1964-03-25 |
Andrew Paris, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1964-10-27 |
Carole Alderson, Police Academy |
1964-11-01 |
Daran Norris, Team America: World Police |
1965-07-28 |
Mame Yamada, Tokyo Gore Police |
1966-11-25 |
Stacy Lattisaw, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol |
1967-01-17 |
Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007) |
1967-04-01 |
Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tokyo Gore Police |
1967-04-21 |
John Venable, Karma Police |
1967-05-31 |
Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police) |
1967-07-06 |
Elvina Kong, Police Story 2 |
1969-08-07 |
Andrew Lin, New Police Story |
1970-9-05 |
Rebekah Stevens, Team America: World Police |
1971-03-29 |
Chie Tanabe, Metropolitan Police Branch 82 |
1971-05-06 |
Catherine Middleton, Team America: World Police |
1973-05-19 |
Ikuko Sawada, Tokyo Gore Police |
1973-07-09 |
Bluesky, The Citizen Police 69 |
1973-9-16 |
Nye Cooper, Karma Police |
1974-03-13 |
Naho Toda, Police Dog Dream |
1974-11-24 |
Dori Woollum, Police Videos |
1975-07-06 |
Jennifer S. Jackson, Team America: World Police |
1975-07-30 |
Cambria Copeland, Team America: World Police |
1976-03-02 |
Winnie Leung, New Police Story |
1976-03-27 |
Carl Ng, New Police Story |
1976-08-20 |
Kristen Miller, Team America: World Police |
1976-08-21 |
Guy Mason, Police Beat |
1976-12-30 |
Samuel Pang, New Police Story |
1976-9-16 |
Asuka Higuchi, New Police Story |
1977-02-01 |
Kaan Çakir, Police |
1977-05-12 |
Coco Chiang, New Police Story |
1977-06-30 |
Cosmin Selesi, Police, Adjective |
1978-06-25 |
Michael Dermen, The Police: Certifiable |
1978-10-18 |
Jyothika, Kaakha..Kaakha: The Police |
1979-03-17 |
Stephen Kramer Glickman, Police Guys |
1979-08-31 |
Alan Cave, The Police |
1980-04-19 |
Juliet Verni, Team America: World Police |
1980-08-29 |
Nicholas Tse, New Police Story |
1980-12-30 |
Kenny Kwan, New Police Story |
1981-04-12 |
George Remes, Police, Adjective |
1981-04-20 |
Kelly Carl, Police State |
1981-08-17 |
Taiga Ishino, Tokyo Gore Police |
1982-01-15 |
Akane Akanezawa, Tokyo Gore Police |
1982-9-22 |
Mandy Chiang, New Police Story |
1984-01-22 |
Jon Lee Brody, Police Guys |
1984-05-05 |
Matt Devino, Handsome Police |
1984-11-10 |
Steven Cheung, New Police Story |
1985-03-07 |
Brandon Knieper, Karma Police |
1985-04-03 |
Jim Ng, Frank McCuff: Police Force Vigilante |
1985-04-26 |
John Isner, Kristen Stewart/Gary Faulkner/Tokyo Police Club/John Isner |
1986-03-22 |
Nese Sayles, Police |
1986-04-12 |
Ayano Yamamoto, Tokyo Gore Police |
1986-12-30 |
Cay Izumi, Tokyo Gore Police |
1987-11-23 |
Sarah Williford, Confiscated Police Video |
1988-06-02 |
Whitney Knieper, Karma Police |
1988-07-08 |
Abdulrahman Algharabally, Kuwait Police Academy 40 |
1992-07-13 |
Andreas Rottem Paulsen, Pelle the Police Car |
1995-12-03 |
Elijah Ostrow, Police Beat |
1997-01-21 |
Jeremy Shada, Team America: World Police |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1985-04-27 |
Police violence victim Rodney King (20) weds Dennetta Lyles |
1989-02-20 |
Police violence victim Rodney King (23) weds Crystal Lynnette Waters |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1793-10-31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 |
1850-07-02 |
Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 |
1857-05-11 |
E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 |
1890-12-15 |
Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police aged 58 or 59 |
1903-01-09 |
Daniel H. Hastings, Governor Hastings and Mounted Police |
1917-02-21 |
Fred Mace, Bangville Police |
1926-07-20 |
Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Soviet statesman, established and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB), dies at 48 |
1931-07-16 |
George S. Dougherty, The Line-Up at Police Headquarters |
1934-05-23 |
Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23 |
1934-05-23 |
Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush |
1936-05-20 |
Nick Cogley, Bangville Police |
1941-03-28 |
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877) |
1941-11-12 |
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed |
1942-10-22 |
Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies |
1946-08-29 |
J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed |
1948-11-04 |
Carl Anderson, The Police Dog |
1949-12-20 |
John Webb Dillon, The Veteran Mounted Police Horse |
1950-07-05 |
Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police |
1959-02-05 |
Gwili Andre, Secrets of the French Police |
1963-11-22 |
J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924) |
1973-04-11 |
Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 |
1977-09-12 |
Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody |
1978-04-25 |
Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960) |
1979-08-15 |
Derek N. Twist, Police Dog |
1980-12-29 |
Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 |
1981-12-09 |
Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955) |
1983-02-20 |
Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 |
1984-02-13 |
Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946) |
1984-07-18 |
James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds |
1984-11-05 |
Dennis W. Peeples, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1986-03-31 |
Jerry Paris, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1986-12-06 |
Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 |
1987-07-25 |
Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), found on a dirt road a day after he had been detained at a police station |
1989-01-10 |
Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933) |
1990-07-20 |
Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907) |
1990-08-05 |
Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies |
1993-04-11 |
Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered |
1993-06-08 |
René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84 |
1993-09-30 |
Tony Brafa, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1994-03-26 |
Matty Azzarone, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1994-08-02 |
Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 |
1994-11-25 |
Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 |
1995-03-14 |
Alessandro Cutolo, The Police Commissioner |
1996-01-31 |
Beth Amos, Police Academy |
1996-03-21 |
Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51 |
1996-07-20 |
William J. Caunitz, One Police Plaza |
1997-04-20 |
Pamela Matheson, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
1998-01-15 |
E. Jack Neuman, Police Story |
1998-07-07 |
Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70 |
2000-01-10 |
Arthur Batanides, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
2000-06-18 |
Nancy Marchand, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2001-02-01 |
Dmitriy Chernigovskiy, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow |
2001-04-07 |
David Graf, Police Academy |
2002-09-13 |
Robert Cherry, Police Rookies |
2002-10-30 |
Cass Martin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2003-02-28 |
Yô Inoue, Patlabor: The Mobile Police |
2003-05-17 |
Blair Davies, Connecticut State Police |
2004-01-18 |
Prince Hughes, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2005-04-05 |
Debralee Scott, Police Academy |
2005-12-27 |
Rita Tuckett, Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
2006-03-13 |
Kort Falkenberg, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege |
2006-09-22 |
Jerry de Bono, Police Woman |
2007-02-02 |
Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967) |
2007-05-07 |
Nicholas Worth, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2007-12-28 |
Tab Thacker, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
2008-02-14 |
Trevor Williams, Police Academy |
2008-03-14 |
Paul Theodore, Police Academy |
2008-05-12 |
Burton Zucker, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2008-05-15 |
Chi-Wing Lau, Police Story |
2008-12-17 |
Willoughby Sharp, Police State |
2009-01-14 |
Ricardo Montalban, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2009-11-30 |
Steven Meltzer, Team America: World Police |
2010-03-11 |
Don Guidice, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
2010-07-09 |
William Yamadera, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
2010-11-28 |
Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2011-03-03 |
Paquito Diaz, Joe Pring: Homicide Manila Police |
2011-08-03 |
Bubba Smith, Police Academy |
2011-10-21 |
Robert L. Collins, Police Woman |
2012-03-08 |
Leslie Cochran, American peace activist and police critic, dies from head trauma at 60 |
2012-04-07 |
Hank Robinson, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2012-11-03 |
Carole Alderson, Police Academy |
2013-03-07 |
Damiano Damiani, Confessions of a Police Captain |
2015-02-09 |
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2016-02-17 |
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