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1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry was born in Rhode Island. He went on to become a hero of the War of 1812.

1819 - Commodore Perry died at sea of yellow fever that he contracted in Venezuela.

1927 - Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a robbery. Probably they were framed. They were posthumously pardoned on the same date in 1977.

1966 - The Lunar Orbiter 1 probe transmitted the first photograph of earth from lunar orbit (monochrome and grainy).

- Jim

1973 - A bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, failed to go according to plan. The robber, who was a paroled career criminal armed with a submachine gun, took four people hostage and held them for six days, occasionally abusing them for dramatic effect in their protracted negotiations with police.

The police terminated the situation by using tear gas on August 28. The hostages were rescued without injury. They later expressed a bizarre, irrational sympathy for the criminals that has been labeled Stockholm Syndrome.

The primary robber became a twisted sort of celebrity, with women proposing marriage to him while he was in prison.

Patty Hearst is probably the best-known modern example of this phenomenon, but it goes back to the rape of the Sabines and before recorded history.

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- Jim