been assigned to keep him in custody. The two federal employees had not been allowed to bring weapons aboard the Boeing 727, while the prisoner, Lester Ellsworth Perry found a razor blade after being allowed to use the bathroom. After emerging from the bathroom, Perry seized a passing stewardess and held the razor to her neck while ordering the pilot to fly to Havana. Flight 79, which had been west of Tulsa, Oklahoma at the time, then banked south and landed at Havana. Perry, who was already serving a sentence for armed robbery in Connecticut, reportedly "picked up a wrinkled brown bag from his seat" before being greeted by two Cuban soldiers and departed. A few years later, Perry would be released to serve on a Cuban merchant ship, and eventually make his way back to the United States in late 1980. On March 2, 1981, Perry, now 43 and using the alias "Russell E. Fair," would be arrested after attempting to steal a car from a parking lot in South Bend, Indiana and receive two consecutive terms of 25 years in federal prison. The U.S. marshal would be allowed to take disability retirement in September. Born: Antonio Conte, Italian soccer football midfielder for Juventus and for the national team; in Lecce References 1969 1969-07 1969-07