On the evening of January 17, 1950, thieves entered the building of the Brink’s security company in Boston’s North End. They ...

The Piasa Bird mural in Alton, originally painted on a bluff, has been restored by artists like Ruth Means and Jack Buese.

On Jan. 17, 1920, prohibition of alcohol began in the United States as the Volstead Act went into effect in support of the ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people.

Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs’ story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink’s Inc. robbery, the largest ...

In 1950, an 11-member gang staged a $1.5 million robbery of a Brink's armored car in Boston. In 1966, a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs collided with its refueling plane over ...

steal more than $2 million from the Brinks Armoured Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts. The Great Brinks Robbery, as it quickly became known, was nearly known as the ‘perfect crime’, but only days ...