Five People Born on March 24
Today is March 24, 2010 and the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days left in the year 2010. According the Mayan calendar, there are 1003 days till the end of the current cycle. On this date, in 1944, 76 prisoners escape from Stalag Luft III. This event was later dramatized in the movie, The Great Escape. Here are five people that share a birthday on this day: Read more...
Categories: Born On Date Tags: birthday, birthdays, bonnie and clyde, born on this date, born on this day, clyde barrow, fatty arbuckle, gorgeous george, harry houdini, steve mcqueen
Five Notorious Gangsters of the Great Depression
The time was the 1930s - the Great Depression was in full swing - and bank robbers turned to the streets of the heartland of America. While prominent mobsters, like Al Capone and Lucky Lusciano, were running the crime families of the large cities, others were attacking the Midwest, killing "G-Men" and becoming a target of J. Edgar Hoover, who named some of these people by the moniker of "Public Enemy Number One". Here are five of the most notorious gangsters to victimize the U.S. Read more...
Categories: History Tags: 1930s, al capone, Baby Face Nelson, bonnie parker, charles arthur floyd, clyde barrow, fbi, gangster, gangsters, george kelly barnes, great depression, j edgar hoover, John Dillinger, lady in red, lester gillis, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Public Enemy Number One, tommy gun
