On this day - 6 March
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Picasso painting stolen in London
On March 6th 1997, a man armed with a shotgun walked into an art gallery in Mayfair, London and stole Tete de Femme off the wall. This is one of Picasso's works, painted of his lover Dora Maar. The thief escaped with the painting into a taxi he had waiting outside the gallery. The painting was later recovered.
Picasso is the most stolen artist worldwide, with over 1000 of his paintings having been recorded as stolen!
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Stalin's daughter defects to the USA
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was Stalin's youngest child with his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. On March 6th 1967 she defected from the Soviet Union to the USA.
Svetlana was first able to leave the Soviet Union in 1966, where she travelled to India to return the ashes of her lover, Kunwar Brajesh Singh, to his family. While there, she contacted the American Embassy in Delhi who arranged for her onward travel.
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