Today In History - November 25th, World's Greatest Robbery Takes Place in 1983

[jchima]

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2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire grosses $161 million in the U.S. and Canada, becoming the most successful film ever released in November

2013 Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Bucharest, Romania. The Premier will attend the China-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) leaders' meeting as a guest of the Prime Minister

2012 Heavy rain and high winds across England and Wales kill two people and flood 800 homes

2011 Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister

2011 The Justice and Development party of Morocco claims victory after Moroccans vote in a parliamentary election

2010 An area in Alaska, twice the size of the United Kingdom, is protected by the U.S. Government; the area is considered a critical habitat for polar bears

2010 A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified by a fossil in Thailand

2009 A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai

1997 U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia

1996 After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends

1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 46 performances

1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls

1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead

1990 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11

1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election

1990 NFL's New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both

1990 Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 and L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17

1989 David Boon scores 200 vs. New Zealand at cricket WACA

1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve New York City assault charges

Source: Today In History - November 25th World s Greatest Robbery Takes Place in 1983 - eReporter

 

[shart_attack]

I don't have time to click on that link.

So what was the "world's greatest robbery" — the Lufthansa Heist?

 

[jchima]

I don't have time to click on that link.

So what was the "world's greatest robbery" — the Lufthansa Heist?

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

 

[Treeshepherd]

DB Cooper was one of the best heists in history;
"A favorite among conspiracy theorists, D.B. Cooper performed the only unsolved air piracy act in American history. In 1971, the unidentified man - known by his common epithet - hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000 and then leaped out of the plane with the money somewhere between Portland and Seattle. Despite years of searches, and an ongoing FBI investigation, neither the body or money have ever been recovered. The assumption is that D. B. parachuted to an uncertain fate, but his case remains active at the Bureau for over 40 years, and has amassed 60 volumes of theories."

In terms of sheer dollars, how about $6 billion?
"In all the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq — with private security contractors, former Iraqi military and the US army all fighting for control of the region — someone made off with over $6 billion dollars worth of the money Congress dumped on the country. Special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, admitted he couldn’t account for the money, and called it the "largest theft of funds in national history." The absurd quantity, complete lack of investigatory results, as well as the manner in which everyone just seemed to forget about it, makes this the largest and strangest of robberies."

 

[konradv]

In terms of sheer dollars, how about $6 billion?

25,000,000 pounds of gold has that beat easy.

 

[Treeshepherd]

I don't think there's 25 million pounds of gold in the whole world. In the 1983 case, they stole 25 million British pounds worth of gold, so that's like 40 million dollars worth.

 

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