On this day
21 June
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1720
Roberts raids Trepassey harbour, Newfoundland.
Bartholomew Roberts Killed before trial
A Welsh mate forced into piracy took hundreds of ships in under three years. A broadside off Gabon in 1722 ended him, and 52 of his men were hanged.
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1933
He robs his first bank, at New Carlisle, Ohio.
John Dillinger Killed before trial
Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.