ON THIS DAY in 1935, racketeer, bootlegger and mobster Dutch Schultz was fatally shot at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey. Schultz was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 1991 Robert Benton film, BILLY BATHGATE.
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ON THIS DAY in 1952, the notorious penal colony of French Guiana (Devil’s Island)-in operation since 1852-was permanently closed. The 1973 film, PAPILLON, with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, was based on the book of the same name, written by a Devil’s Island prisoner’s memoir.
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