2013 Event Miguel Trevino Morales, the leader of a criminal gang called Los Zetas is captured by the Mexican Army 2011 Event Iran refuses to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that Iran captured after it crash landed in the country; Iran reports they are extracting data from the aircraft 2011 Event President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011 2011 Event Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured in Libya; he will be tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court 2010 Event Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old fugitive known as the 'Barefoot Bandit' is captured by police in northern Eleuthera, The Bahamas 2010 Event 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission 2010 Event Danish special forces storm a ship captured by Somali pirates, freeing 25 crewmembers on board 2009 Event Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured 1997 Event Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1994 Event Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum, Sudan 1991 Event Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured 1991 Event Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1991 Event CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf 1990 Event Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces 1987 Event Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve 1986 Event Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed 1985 Event Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed 1984 Event Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson 1983 Birthday Jessica Lynch, born in Palatine, West Virginia, former Private First Class in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, captured by Iraqis, recovered by special ops forces 1982 Event Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured 1981 Event "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured 1976 Event War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing 1975 Event Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1973 Event 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash 1972 Event Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians 1968 Event James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured 1962 Event Nelson Mandela captured by South African police 1958 Event Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1949 Event Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1948 Event Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1946 Event 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt 1945 Event Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead 1945 Event German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured 1945 Event Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies 1945 Event U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 Event U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany 1944 Event 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 1943 Event Allied forces captured Naples during WW II 1943 Event Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 Event Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis 1943 Event Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured 1941 Event 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) 1941 Event British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa 1940 Event Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch 1920 Death Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1919 Event German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet 1915 Birthday John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1914 Event German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp 1905 Event Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger captured 1899 Event Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1898 Event American troops captured deserted Wake Island 1885 Event Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan 1870 Event Napoleon III captured at Sedan 1870 Event White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature 1865 Event President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 Event Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville, Georgia 1865 Event Mobile, Alabama is captured 1863 Event Mexico City captured by French troops 1862 Event General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured 1862 Event Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 1862 Event Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1862 Event Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) 1861 Event Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform 1856 Event Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces 1851 Event Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph 1851 Birthday Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1842 Event Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston 1826 Event Missolonghi captured by Turks 1814 Event British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1806 Event Buenos Aires captured by British 1791 Event Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 1776 Event British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution 1775 Event American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1774 Event Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured 1727 Birthday James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1699 Event Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston 1655 Event Jamaica captured by English 1650 Event French Prince Louis II of Conde captured 1647 Event Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1582 Event King James IV of Scotland captured 1567 Event Lomaraal van Egmond and Philip van Hoorne captured 1562 Event Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Conde captured 1553 Event Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1547 Event Count Philip van Hessen captured 1535 Event Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa 1522 Event Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1520 Death Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53 1435 Event Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen 1430 Event Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British 1358 Event French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured 1300 Event King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured 1192 Event Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna 1192 Event English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured 1174 Event Scottish King William captured 1141 Event Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured 1071 Event Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe 905 Event Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
