| 25 Dec 1969 |
Bank robber Willie Sutton (robs banks because "that's what the money is") released from Attica. |
| 9 Sep 1971 |
Attica taken over by inmates. 10 hostages, 32 prisoners killed by the time it is over. |
| 13 Sep 1971 |
Attica stormed under orders of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. |
| 25 Jan 1976 |
The Harlem Globetrotters play the Washington Generals at Attica Correctional Facility, narrated by Howard Cosell. From time to time in the 70's and 80's, ABC Sports would rebroadcast this game. |
| 10 Jul 1979 |
David Berkowitz's throat slashed in Attica prison, but he survives with 56 stitches. |
| 1981 |
John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman admitted to Attica. |
| 3 Jan 2000 |
An $8M settlement is reached over the 1971 riots, settling a class action suit filed in 1974. |
