Sunday, December 18, 2022

Monday, December 18, 1922. The Denver Mint Robbery

 


A deadly robbery of the Denver mint resulted in $200,000 being stolen, and one guard and one thief losing their lives.

$80,000 of the $200,000 was recovered in early 1923 in Minnesota, along with money traced to a prior bank robbery.  No arrests were ever made, although authorities believed they had largely solved the mystery of who committed the robbery about a decade later, by which time most of those who were involved with it, assuming the authorities were correct, were dead or in prison.

Three days of fascists attacks on union members in Turin, Italy, commenced.

The de Bothezat helicopter, nicknamed "the flying octopus", made its first flight


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