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Robbery
1992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies

1991 Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in New York at 49

1990 Biggest U.S. art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston

1989 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen

1983 World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England

1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery

1981 Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen

1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery

1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery

1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record $20-50 million

1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"

1963 Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed

1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery

1933 James Booth, born in London, England, actor and writer, Zulu, Robbery, Revenge

1926 Frank Finlay, Farnworth Lancashire England, actor, Robbery, Lifeforce

1903 "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released

1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)

1876 Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)

1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)

1866 1st train robbery in U.S. (Reno Brothers take $13,000)

1865 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio)

1831 1st U.S. bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000)

1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery



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