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November 24, 1971

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1971, Dan “D.B.” Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 and escaped by parachuting from the plane with $200,000 in ransom money over a deep woods area of Washington state. Mr. Cooper and the vast majority of the money has never been found. The theories of his disappearance have ranged … Continue reading →

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November 10, 1993

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1993 – John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who had sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was also later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband. The two police officers who found and placed John Wayne Bobbitt’s severed penis in a plastic … Continue reading →

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October 29, 1998

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1998, the oldest known copy of Archimedes’ work sold for $2 million at a New York auction. It was a diagram of a crudely drawn man holding the end of a very long lever that was positioned between a picture of the earth and a conveniently placed rock. Each … Continue reading →

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September 12, 1910

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DATE IN TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1910 the World’s 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, was appointed to the LAPD. Her phone answering and coffee making skills attained god-like attributes among the men of the department and her late night barista skills were openly acknowledged in helping the men break many of the murder and … Continue reading →

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August 21, 1911

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DATE IN TWISTED-HISTORY in 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre. Vincenzo “Vinnie” Peruggia was caught two years later in 1913 as he tried to sell the painting to an Italian Art Gallery. When he was questioned why he stole the Mona Lisa … Continue reading →

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August 4, 1994

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! in 1994 Shock Jock Howard Stern dropped out of the New York gubernatorial race. In his concession speech he stated that he was an amateurish lecherous, money-grubbing, prostitute-associating, drug-using reprobate who only wanted to be governor so he could have a Pimp’s Ball for an inauguration party after winning. After … Continue reading →

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July 26, 1875

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DATE IN HISTORY in 1875, the legend of “Black Bart” the Verse Slinging Bandit began. Old ‘Black Bart’ aka Charles E. Bowles spent years robbing Wells Fargo Stage coaches. The story is, one night in 1874 at an open-mike saloon in San Francisco, Charlie was slinging mad verbage at all the cool cats … Continue reading →

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June 29, 1613

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Joel Byers

On June 25, 1613 the first neighborhood insurance company is formed by the Garducci family, recent Sicilian immigrants to the Southwark Bridge Road Neighborhood. On June 28, Antonio Garducci went to the majority shareholders (brothers Richard and Cuthbert Burbage) of the “Lord Chamberlain’s Men” the company that owned the Globe Theatre. William Shakespeare, a minority … Continue reading →

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