Brink’s Robbery occurs.

At approximately 7 p.m., 11 men wearing Halloween masks rob the Brink’s counting house of North Terminal Garage at 165 Prince Street. The largest robbery in U.S. up to this time, it results in the loss of $1.2 million in cash and $1.4 million in checks, securities, and money orders. After almost committing the perfect crime, however, one of the thieves, Joseph “Specs” O’Keefe, whose is imprisoned on another charge, confesses and names his cohorts on January 6, 1956 – just 11 days before the state’s statute of limitations was to have run out. Only a small portion of the stolen money is ever be recovered in June 1956.* The robbers are tried and sentenced in October 1956.*