On this day 43 years ago, on December 12, 1982 (October 28, 1982 lunar calendar), the largest cash theft in American history occurred. On the night of December 12, 1982, the largest cash theft in American history occurred in New York, when two gunmen stole $9.80 million in cash from a New York bullet-proof car company. The two veiled men with short guns infiltrated the roof of the company's guard building and disarmed the only person on duty who was watching TV. They then used electronic theft tools to disable the alarm system of the vault, pry open the double-locked iron door, and loaded the large amount of banknotes into the car. It was not until the next morning when the company's employees went to work that the vault was discovered to be stolen.