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1994 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers

1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles

1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi

1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race

1989 U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value)

1988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics

1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane

1981 New York Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York

1969 U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1966 North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley

1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul

1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese

1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner

1944 During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles, France

1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia

1941 German capture Kreta

1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians

1940 In WW II, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway

1940 Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)

1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem

1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks

1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace

1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft. Douaumont

1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu

1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy

1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur

1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion

1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha

1866 Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa

1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis

1865 Federals capture Ft. Blakely, Alabama

1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas

1862 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY

1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry

1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX

1860 British and French troops capture Beijing

1839 British capture Hong Kong from China

1827 Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ

1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)

1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada

1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris

1813 Americans capture Ft. George, Canada

1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed

1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada

1799 Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands

1795 British capture Capetown South Africa

1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I

1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass

1776 Hessians capture Ft. Lee, NJ

1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution

1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)

1758 Britain capture Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French

1756 French capture Fort Oswego, New York

1755 British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians

1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French

1695 English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk

1679 Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java

1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin

1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French

1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli

1099 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem

1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria



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