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Escapes
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 Gen 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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