2006: A Mexican professional wrestler, Juana Barraza, was arrested in conjunction with the serial killingof at least 10 elderly women
1996: Billy Bailey was the last person to be hanged as a method of execution in the United States
1993: Five people were shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia by a Muslim extremist, resulting in two dead and three wounded
1971: Charles Manson and three female co-defendants were found guilty of the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca
1787: American Daniel Shays led a rebellion against the federal government to protest debtor's prisons, for which he was later convicted of treason
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