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1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
1994 Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum, Sudan 1991 Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured 1991 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1991 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf 1990 Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces 1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve 1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed 1985 Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed 1984 Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson 1982 Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured 1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured 1976 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing 1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash 1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians 1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police 1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1946 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt 1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured 1945 Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies 1945 U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany 1944 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II 1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis 1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured 1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) 1941 British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa 1940 Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch 1920 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 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet 1915 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 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1901 Boer general Kritzinger captured 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1898 American troops captured deserted Wake Island 1885 Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan 1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan 1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville, Georgia 1865 Mobile, Alabama is captured 1863 Mexico City captured by French troops 1862 General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured 1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 1862 Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1862 Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) 1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform 1856 Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces 1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph 1851 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 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston 1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks 1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British 1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 1776 British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1774 Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured 1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec 1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston 1655 Jamaica captured by English 1650 French Prince Louis II of Conde captured 1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1582 King James IV of Scotland captured 1567 Lomaraal van Egmond and Philip van Hoorne captured 1562 Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Conde captured 1553 Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1547 Count Philip van Hessen captured 1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1520 Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53 1435 Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen 1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British 1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured 1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured 1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna 1192 English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured 1174 Scottish King William captured 1141 Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured 1071 Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe 905 Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured |
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