The robbers succeeded in stealing over £2.6 million in cash. Worth £50million today, the vast majority of the money was never recovered.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The Stone of Scone was found on the site of the High Altar at Arbroath Abbey, nearly four months after it disappeared from Westminster Abbey.
Vincenzo Peruggia served just six months in jail for the robbery, and was hailed by many Italians as a nationalist hero for returning the Mona Lisa to her real home although it was later returned to France.
On the 8th August 1963, a gang of 15 men attacked a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and stole over £2.6million in cash.
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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