Trial of the century

A number of court cases have been called "the trial of the century" by the media and other analysts.

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These have included:

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• 1906 — Trial of Harry K. Thaw
• 1921 — Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
• 1924 — Trial of Leopold and Loeb
• 1925 — Scopes Monkey Trial
• 1931 — The Scottsboro Boys rape trial
• 1935 — Trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping
• 1945 — Nuremberg Trials
• 1949 — Alger Hiss perjury trials before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
• 1951 — Espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• 1961 — Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes
• 1969 — Trial of the Chicago Seven
• 1970 — Conspiracy trial of Charles Manson
• 1992 — Trial of the LAPD officers involved in the Rodney King beating
• 1995 — O. J. Simpson murder trial
• 1999 — The Bill Clinton impeachment trial
• 2002* — Trial of Slobodan Milo?evi? for war crimes
• 2002 — The Scott Peterson trial
• 2005 — Michael Jackson

*Trial results pending.

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Because so many trials have been considered "trials of the century" throughout the 20th (and even into the 21st) centuries, the title is often used in a somewhat tongue in cheek fashion.

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