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Today in
Crime History

1831 - Edward Smith became the first indicted bank robber in the U.S.

1932 - The infant body of Charles and Anna Lindbergh's son was found just a few miles from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, NJ.

1982 - In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.

1992 - Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.

Today in
Disaster History

1997 - In northeast Iran, more than 1,500 people were killed when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck.

2008 - In Sichuan, China, at least 67,000 people were killed in a 7.9 magnitude earthquake.

2010 - In Libya, at Tripoli International Airport a Afriqiya Airways plane crashed killing 103 people. The only survivor was a Dutch 10-year-old.

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