One year ago: A crush of fans during a performance by rapper Travis Scott at a Houston music festival left ten people dead, as people were squeezed so tightly they couldn’t breathe. (Sandusky was later convicted and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for the sexual abuse of 10 boys over a 15-year period.) In 2011, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, accused of molesting eight boys, was arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts. In 2007, Hollywood writers began a three-month strike, forcing late-night talk shows to immediately start airing reruns. In 2006, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease. (Nevers and his partner, Walter Budzyn, were found guilty of second-degree murder, but the convictions were overturned they were later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.) In 1992, Malice Green, a Black motorist, died after he was struck in the head 14 times with a flashlight by a Detroit police officer, Larry Nevers, outside a suspected crack house.
Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband. Families of 2 killed at Astroworld festival settle lawsuits
