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