** The coroner's inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and her lover Dodi Al-Fayed is officially opened.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

** A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it cannot reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.

** A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

** A Fairfax, Virginia jury finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of murdering 2 CIA employees in 1993.

** A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.

** A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran – Contra affair.

** A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and 3 female followers.

** The Republic of Austria abolishes the jury trial by decree.

** Burden of persuasion: if at the close of evidence, the jury cannot decide if P has established with relevant level of certainty that D had committed murder, the jury must find D not guilty of the crime of murder

** When it came time to reveal the winner of the 2008 season it was revealed that the jury vote was tied at 3-3.

** In all seasons of Baltic Robinson the jury would vote for who they didn't want to win as opposed to who they did.

** 3rd Prize, awarded by festival's youth jury from 11th International Odense Film Festival 1995 ( Denmark )

** 1999 special jury prize ( tied with A Simple Plan ).

** Anugerah Industri Muzik ( AIM )-Best Music Video ( Director / Song: KRU / The Way We Jam ); Best Engineered Album ( Engineer / Album: Edry Abdul Halim / The Way We Jam ); Anugerah Kembara ( special jury ’ s award to recognize local acts who have made an impact regionally or internationally )

** Evidence ; holding that Due Process demands that an inference of negligence is not enough to send a case to a jury in a tort case ; reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

** Eyrbyggja Saga shows the Norse system of legalities on Snæfellsnes which used a trial by jury system.

** Lorenzo Mattotti is awarded the Grand Prix by the jury at the Blois comics festival.

** Italian cartoonist Gipi wins the Prix Goscinny, an annual prize awarded by jury and named in honour of Rene Goscinny.

** The jury selects Etienne Davodeau's Les Mauvaises Gens to receive the Prix du Public at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

** Jean-François Kieffer's Loupio series has been awarded Le prix de la BD chretienne Francophone, the prize awarded by a jury composed from representatives of Christian denominations.

** Art Spiegelman has joined the jury to judge an anti-Semitic cartoon contest sponsored by Israeli comics collective Dimona Comics.

** Best Artist ( vote jury )

** Itemized deduction, eligible expense that individual taxpayers in the United States can report on their Federal income tax returns

** At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the First Supply and about 100 new settlers ; he finds only 38 survivors.

** The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war.

** Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer, Inc at Macworld in Boston.

** William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

** Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.

** The Soviet Union returns Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom in exchange for spies Peter and Helen Kroger ( Morris and Lona Cohen ).

** Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $ 24 ( he leaves the island January 1970 ).

** Sarah Balabagan returns to the Philippines.

** Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.

** The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the World War II Battle of Okinawa, to Japan.

** The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.

** The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile while his country was occupied by Iraq.

** Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.

** Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

** Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.

** The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.

** Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned " King Henry V of France " until France abandons its tricolor and returns to the old Bourbon flag.

** Porfirio Díaz returns as President of Mexico, an office he will hold until 1911.

** South African general election, 1989: the last held under apartheid returns the National Party to power with a much-reduced majority.

** Newfoundland returns to Crown Colony status following financial collapse.

** The United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.

** Siege of Alexandria: Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant.

** While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.