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1997 Event - Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

1991 Event - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0

1991 Event - Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title

1975 Event - Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)

1967 Event - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem

1960 Event - Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal

1960 Event - USC captures NCAA swimming title

1956 Event - Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt

1956 Event - Israel captures Gaza and Sheham

1956 Event - Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad

1948 Event - Israeli army captures Nazareth

1948 Event - Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

1948 Event - Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus

1948 Event - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1945 Event - U.S. captures Tsugen Shima

1945 Event - U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

1945 Event - U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

1945 Event - U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach

1945 Event - British Army captures Goch

1945 Event - U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die

1944 Event - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy

1944 Event - U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

1943 Event - U.S. infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal

1942 Event - German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe

1942 Event - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island

1942 Event - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma

1935 Event - U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year

1929 Birthday - Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident

1924 Event - Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca

1924 Event - Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships

1919 Event - Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia

1919 Event - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1918 Event - 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more

1918 Event - Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans

1917 Event - T. E. Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey

1915 Event - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1913 Event - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"

1913 Event - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War

1905 Event - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

1901 Event - U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo

1900 Event - Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns

1900 Event - Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry

1898 Event - U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war

1894 Event - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)

1872 Event - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta and Big Tree

1864 Event - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta

1864 Event - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners

1864 Event - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee

1863 Event - CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic

1862 Event - General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky

1862 Event - General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

1847 Event - American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1846 Event - General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico

1846 Event - General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War

1818 Event - General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida

1813 Event - British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus

1812 Event - U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian

1799 Event - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

1799 Event - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

1799 Event - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I

1798 Event - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt

1793 Event - Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795)

1779 Event - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1779 Event - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British

1777 Event - British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1775 Event - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br)

1708 Event - Great Alliance captures Bridge

1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1671 Event - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama

1648 Event - English army captures King Charles I

1641 Event - Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep

1628 Event - Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet

1552 Event - Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel

1532 Event - Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca

1500 Event - Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus

1500 Event - France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan

1489 Event - Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors

1303 Event - Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII

1187 Event - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

476 Event - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia

70 Event - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem













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