Tag: history
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBER ESCAPES FROM PRISON
57 years ago today, Charlie Wilson, part of the gang who pulled off the 1963 Great Train Robbery, one of the biggest heists of its kind, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, in under three minutes. The post THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBER ESCAPES FROM PRISON appeared first on RUDOLF DETHU.
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BUGSY GOT MURDERED
74 years ago today, Bugsy Siegel, is shot and killed at his mistress Virginia Hill’s home in Beverly Hills, California. Siegel had been talking to his associate Allen Smiley when three bullets were fired through the window and into his head, killing him instantly. The post BUGSY GOT MURDERED appeared first on RUDOLF DETHU.
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IRENA SENDLER: HEROINE OF THE HOLOCAUST
Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker and nurse who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, passed away on this date in 2008. The post IRENA SENDLER: HEROINE OF THE HOLOCAUST appeared first on RUDOLF DETHU.
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THE BIRTH OF FRISBEES
64 years ago today, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs—now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees. The post THE BIRTH OF FRISBEES appeared first on RUDOLF DETHU.
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101 YEARS AGO, DRINKING BECAME ILLEGAL
101 years ago today, after it was ratified a year earlier on 16 January 1919, prohibition officially goes into effect, with the passage of the Volstead Act (also known as National Prohibition Act). The post 101 YEARS AGO, DRINKING BECAME ILLEGAL appeared first on RUDOLF DETHU.