📜 December 11: On This Day in History |  | The Ponz |  Image: The Economist | Each of the following events happened on December 11. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Financier Bernard Madoff is arrested at his New York City apartment and charged with masterminding a long-running Ponzi scheme later estimated to involve around $65 billion, in one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history.
- B) Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chooses to abdicate after the British government, public, and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcée.
- C) The infamous “Lufthansa heist” occurs, with half a dozen masked robbers raiding the Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at JFK Airport in New York. The thieves made off with ~$6 million in what’s widely considered one of the greatest heists in US history.
- D) Stockbroker Bill Wilson takes his last drink of alcohol after a 13-year struggle with addiction, citing a religious experience as his reason for sobriety. The following year, he would establish the groundbreaking treatment program Alcoholics Anonymous.
Hint: Quitting is the first step |
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📜 Answers | | D, B, C, A - D) 1934 – Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink of alcohol.
- B) 1936 – Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
- C) 1978 – The “Lufthansa heist” takes place at JFK Airport in New York. The heist was planned in part by mobster-turned-movie-consultant Henry Hill, the subject of Goodfellas.
- A) 2008 – Financier Bernard Madoff is arrested.
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