July 12

The fashion of wearing of gloves seems to have largely fallen out of favor, unlike its cousin – the wearing of absurdly huge sunglasses. If you are considering bank robbery as a career choice, you might want to seriously consider wearing them (the gloves, not the sunglasses) however. On the 12th in 1987, a group of people broke in to the Knightsbridge Security Deposit Center in London (England not Canada) and stole £63.6 million, making that robbery second, after the robbery of the Central Bank of Iraq on March 18, 2003, in the ranking of the world’s most lucrative bank robberies. Forensic specialists found precisely one fingerprint at the Knightsbridge facility, which led them to Valerio Viccei, and he was then arrested for the crime.

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