Today in History: $5.8 million stolen

Cash and jewels worth more than $5 million were stolen from an air cargo building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on this day in 1978. Only one person was ever convicted in connection with the Lufthansa heist, and almost none of the stolen money was recovered. 1978.

The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recommended three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, to which would be added a fourth article the following day, for actions taken in connection with his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 1998. 

Russian troops invaded Chechnya in an effort to suppress the government led by Dzhokhar Dudayev, who, as the republic’s president, had declared Chechnya’s independence in 1991. 1994. 

American boxer Muhammad Ali fought his last professional bout, losing to Trevor Berbick in a decision. 1981. 

Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the last humans to walk on the Moon. 1972. 

UNICEF—a United Nations program devoted to improving the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children—was established.1946. 

Adolf Hitler declared that Germany was at war with the United States following Japanese attacks on the U.S., British, and Dutch positions in the Pacific and in East Asia. 1941.

Edward VIII‘s abdication as king of the United Kingdom was formally approved. He is the only sovereign to voluntarily resign the British crown, which he did to marry American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson. 1936.