Today in History: December 11, ‘Lufthansa Heist’ later immortalized in ‘Goodfellas’
This day is Thursday Dec the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Dec nearly 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 Indiana was admitted to the Union as the th U S state Related Articles Michigan fires football coach Sherrone Moore saying he had inappropriate relationship with staff member Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela Foreigners allowed to advance to the US without a visa could soon face new social media screening Judge orders Trump to end California National Guard troop deployment in Los Angeles Douglas County wants to crack down on shoplifting in part by fining stores if they don t analysis it In Britain s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson his brother Prince Albert became King George VI In the United Nations International Children s Urgency Fund UNICEF was established In Apollo commander Gene Cernan guided lander Challenger to a touchdown on the moon where he and Harrison Jack Schmitt would become the last two Apollo astronauts to walk on the lunar surface They returned to Earth three days later with astronaut Ronald Evans who remained aloft in the command module In President Jimmy Carter signed decree creating a billion environmental Superfund to pay for cleaning up hazardous chemical spills and toxic waste dumps In more than countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto Japan to control the Earth s greenhouse gases In majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over Democratic objections In former Nasdaq chairman Bernie Madoff was arrested accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out the life savings of thousands of people and wrecked charities Madoff died in April while serving a -year federal prison sentence In the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden s electoral contest success ending an attempt to get legal issues that were rejected by state and federal judges before the nation s highest court In the present day s Birthdays Actor Rita Moreno is Former U S Secretary of State John Kerry is Singer Brenda Lee is Singer Jermaine Jackson is Rock musician Nikki Sixx Motley Crue is Actor-comedian Mo Nique is Hockey Hall of Famer Daniel Alfredsson is Rapper-actor Yasiin Bey formerly Mos Def is Author Colleen Hoover is Actor Rider Strong is Actor Alexa Demie is Actor Hailee Steinfeld is
