Pearl Hart became a celebrity and acquired the nickname ‘Bandit Queen’.
3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA
3rd February 2021
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 bullets.
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
On the 4th May 1932, Al Capone began life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
By the time the authorities re-established control on the morning of 4 May, two prison officers and three perpetrators lay dead.
Despite a reward of $10 million, and extensive investigations by the FBI, none of the works have ever been recovered and nobody has ever been arrested for the robbery.
On the 14th March 1950, the FBI launched its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices committed the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history when they stole priceless gems from the American Museum of Natural History.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019