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Theft of Mona Lisa discovered
On this day in 1911, in what remains one of the most audacious art thefts of the 20th century, Vincenzo Peruggia, a former employee of the Louvre, walked out of the famed museum with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa hidden under his arm.