#lufthansa-heist

#lufthansa-heist

On Dec. 11, 1978, nearly $6 million in cash and jewelry were stolen from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport; the Lufthansa Heist,' the largest cash robbery in history at the time, was immortalized in the film Goodfellas. Also on this date: In 1816, Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th U.S. state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson;