1995 Event Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle 1995 Event Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed 1992 Event Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison 1988 Event Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia 1987 Event Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1981 Event IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail 1977 Event Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado 1977 Event SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome 1977 Event James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison 1975 Event President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside 1974 Event South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination 1970 Event U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail 1948 Event Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt 1947 Event Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia 1945 Event Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes 1944 Event Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia 1933 Event John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail 1907 Event Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec 1903 Event Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam 1883 Event Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt 1875 Event William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, New York City - Tammany Hall, escapes from jail 1871 Event Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches 1858 Event French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1849 Event Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 1838 Event Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor 1753 Event Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass 1737 Event Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court 1730 Event Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England 1695 Event King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England 1690 Event King Willem III escapes back to England 1688 Event King James II escapes back to London 1621 Event Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands 1590 Event King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail 1576 Event Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris 1552 Event Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle 1425 Event Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail 1054 Event Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome
