16 November

Rackham and the male crew are tried at Spanish Town and condemned.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read Convicted

Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend.

Capone, weakened by syphilis, is released on parole.

Al Capone tax evasion trial Convicted

Chicago could never convict Al Capone of murder. In 1931 the Treasury got him with a lawyer's letter, a bookkeeper's ledger and his own grocery bills.