Gardner Museum Robbery occurs.

Two men dressed as Boston police officers are admitted to the museum at 2 Palace Road at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night. After drawing guns and gagging and tying up security guards, they make off with 13 pieces of art, including Rembrandt’s A Lady and Gentleman in Black, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, and Self-Portrait, and Vermeer’s The Concert. Subsequently described by the Boston Globe as “The biggest art theft since the 1911 robbery of the Mona Lisa,” the crime has yet to be solved and the art works have never been recovered.