In the Great Brinks Robbery of 1950, thieves made off with more than $2 million from Boston’s Brinks Armored Car depot. In 1974, racial violence erupted citywide over court-ordered school busing. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990 of some its most priceless artworks (the...
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Tue, Jan 17, 1950 Brink's robbery Tue, Jun 9, 1953 Great Worcester Tornado Fri, Oct 16, 1953 USS Leyte explosion kills 33 Tue, Feb 28, 1956 Commuter train crash near Swampscott Sat, Apr 13, 1957 Celtics win their first championship Tue, Nov 11, 1958 Mayor James Michael Curley dies ...