TODAY IN CRIME: July 20

AD 70 In Jerusalem, the Zealots waged a street fight against the Roman army when Titus, son of Roman emperor Vespasian, stormed the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount.

1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.

1934 “Bloody Friday”: During the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, police in Minneapolis fired upon striking truck drivers, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. Under pressure from President Roosevelt’s administration, local industrialists finally agreed to a plan that established uniform pay rates for trucking workers and called for strikers to be rehired, and the strike ended on August 22.

1938 The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in New York City against the motion picture industry, charging that studio ownership of theaters and film distribution violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. The case was eventually settled with a consent decree but the studios did not fully comply. The United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Supreme Court ruling in 1948 forced the studios to divest themselves of their theater chains. Separating the production of films from their exhibition, along with the advent of television, put an end to the old Hollywood system.

1944 Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the Fuhrer’s field headquarters near Rastenburg. The Gestapo arrested 7,000 people who had the remotest connection to the plot and executed nearly 5,000.

1950 Laboratory chemist Harry Gold pled guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment but was paroled in 1965.

1951 Palestinian nationalist Mustafa Shukri Ashu assassinated King Abdullah I of Jordan as he attended Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

1954 Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, turned up in East Germany after disappearing for three days. In December 1955 he defected back to West Germany, claiming he’d been abducted by KGB agents. The West Germans did not believe him and charged him with treason.

1974 Forces from Turkey invaded Cyprus after a coup d'état, organized by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.

1990 A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North's convictions in the Iran-Contra scandal.

1993 U.S. Park Police found Clinton White House deputy counsel Vince Foster shot to death in Fort Marcy park outside Washington, D.C., in an apparent suicide.

1999 The Chinese Communist Party began a persecution campaign against the religious movement Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.

2005 The Civil Marriage Act legalized same-sex marriage in Canada.

2012 Gunman James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.

2017 A Nevada parole board granted O. J. Simpson parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence. He was convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas in 2008.