John Kraniou, Author at JURIST

Metropolitan Museum signing landmark antiquities repatriation pact with Italy

February 21, 2006 08:12:00 am

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to sign an agreement with the Italian Culture Ministry in Rome Tuesday under which the museum will return several pieces of looted Hellenistic art in exchange...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

World Intellectual Property Organization created

On April 26, 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) went into force, creating WIPO. WIPO is a United Nations agency that works to promote intellectual property rights in the international community. Today, 184 nations have signed the convention.

Learn more about WIPO.

US soldier arrested for killing John Wilkes Booth

On April 26, 1865, Sergeant Thomas P. Corbett was placed under technical arrest for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

Charges against Corbett were dropped by Secretary of War Stanton, and Corbett received a share of the reward money for Booth, which amounted to $1,653.85. Learn more about Thomas P. Corbett.