Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 bullets.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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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.
The last execution at the Tower of London took place on the 15th August 1941. Josef Jakobs was a German spy who was arrested after he signalled for help after breaking his ankle when he parachuted into Britain.
Find out more at http://www.josefjakobs.info/
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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