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#TodayInMystery 1770
Soldiers fire into an armed mob of hundreds outside the #Boston Custom House, with ultimately 6 fatalities. The Massacre exacerbated public outrage over taxation and troop deployment and would prove a catalyst for revolution.
#OnThisDay #OTD #TodayinHistory
#TodayInMystery 1854
"City of Glasgow" departs #Liverpool for #Philadelphia with over 470 passengers and crew, never to be seen again. Though unusually dense ice was reported in the Atlantic that year, the cause of the steamer's disappearance is a #mystery.
#OnThisDay #unsolved
#TodayInMystery 1692
Three #Salem women are arrested for witchcraft after several village girls show signs of possession. Scores of people in what is now #Massaschusetts will be accused and twenty executed during the monthslong #hysteria.
#OnThisDay #OTD #history #mentalhealth
#TodayInMystery 2008
In the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Misha Defonseca confesses that her ghostwritten #WWII #memoir is actually fiction. The fabrications in "Misha" include the author's killing of a Nazi attacker, a trek across Europe and her adoption by wolves.
#hoax #mystery
#TodayInMystery 1997
Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" is stolen under mysterious circumstances from the Ricci-Oddi in #Piacenza, #Italy by person or persons unknown. The #painting was found undamaged in 2019 in a wall recess of the museum's own garden.
#truecrime #art #mystery #OTD
#TodayInMystery 2008
Armed, masked men raid #Zurich's E.G. Bührle museum at closing time and steal four #paintings, by Cézanne, Degas, Monet and Van Gogh, worth millions. An international investigation will lead to the recovery of all the #art by 2012.
#heist #truecrime #history
#TodayInMystery 1941
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil dies suddenly of #unknonwn causes at age 28 in #Lahore. Given the cultural impact of her relatively small oeuvre, she might have been among the most prominent #artists of the century.
#mystery #unsolved #OnThisDay #OTD #arthistory
#TodayInMystery 1871
Millions of acres are razed by firestorms in #Wisconsin & #Michigan lakeside towns, including Peshtigo, where over a thousand died. These #unsolved disasters have been eclipsed by #Chicago's Great Fire that began the same day.
#OnThisDay #OTD #TodayInHistory
#TodayInMystery 2010
Explorers discover the wreck of the legendary City of Everett in the Gulf of Mexico. The whaleback freighter, the first steamship to circle the globe, sank while hauling Cuban molasses to #NewOrleans in 1923.
#mystery #discovery #archaeology #OTD #OnThisDay