DAYS LEFT IN THE YEAR TRIAL

DAYS LEFT IN THE YEAR TRIAL

(Blake, accused of Bakley’s murder, was acquitted in a criminal trial but found liable by a civil jury and ordered to pay damages.) In 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake, was shot to death as she sat in a car near a restaurant in Los Angeles. In 1998, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN’-skee) was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, California, under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty.

King Charles III takes day off after busy coronation weekend (The outcome was considered a tactical victory for Japan, but ultimately a strategic one for the Allies.) In 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began in the Pacific during World War II. (Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island.) In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. In 1904, the United States took over construction of the Panama Canal from the French. In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour work day turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded.

In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. Today is Thursday, May 4, the 124th day of 2023.

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