Jury selection began for Chicago "Black Sox" baseball trial

Jury selection began for Chicago “Black Sox” baseball trial

July 5, 2009 03:00:00 am

On July 5, 1921, jury selection began in the trial of eight Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

“Shoeless Joe” Jackson and seven others were eventually acquitted but were later barred from baseball for life. Learn more about the “Black Sox” trial in JURIST’s Famous Trials series.

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Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).

League of Nations established

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