11 December

Bellomont commissions Kidd to hunt named pirates and French ships.

Captain Kidd Executed

Sent by powerful backers to hunt pirates, William Kidd came home accused of being one, and was hanged twice at Execution Dock in 1701.

In a Florence hotel room, Alfredo Geri and Uffizi director Giovanni Poggi examine the panel Peruggia offers them and take it away.

Mona Lisa theft Convicted

In 1911 a glazier walked out of the Louvre with Leonardo's portrait. It was gone 28 months, and the empty wall made it the world's most famous painting.

Both are found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

Thompson and Bywaters Executed

A young ship's steward stabbed his lover's husband on an Ilford street in 1922. Her letters, not her actions, took her to the gallows beside him.