On this day
11 June
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1907
Vicars shows the jewels to a visitor; this is the last time they are known to have been in the safe.
Irish Crown Jewels theft Unsolved
Days before a royal visit in July 1907, the diamond regalia of the Order of St Patrick vanished from a safe in Dublin Castle. They have never been found.
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1912
A coroner's inquest opens.
Villisca axe murders Unsolved
Eight people, six of them children, were killed in one house in a small Iowa town in June 1912. Two men faced the law. Neither was convicted.