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Captures
1997
Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
1991
Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991
Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title
1975
Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
1967
Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
1960
Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1960
USC captures NCAA swimming title
1956
Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt
1956
Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
1956
Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1948
Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948
Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
1948
Arab Legion captures fort on Mt. Scopus
1948
Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
1945
U.S. captures Tsugen Shima
1945
U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945
U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1945
U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach
1945
British Army captures Goch
1945
U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
1944
Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy
1944
U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
1943
US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
1942
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
1942
FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island
1942
Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1935
U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1929
Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident
1924
Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1924
Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
1919
Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
1919
Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1918
7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more
1918
Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1917
T. E. Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1915
British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1913
Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1913
Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1905
Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1901
Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
1901
U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1900
Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
1900
Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1898
U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
1894
Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1872
Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta and Big Tree
1864
Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1864
Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1864
Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1863
CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic
1862
Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky
1862
Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1847
American-Mexican war: U.S. Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1846
Gen Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico
1846
Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1818
Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1813
British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus
1812
US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1799
Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1799
Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1799
USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1798
Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1793
Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795)
1779
General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1779
George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1777
British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1775
1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br)
1708
Great Alliance captures Bridge
1708
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1708
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1671
Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama
1648
English army captures King Charles I
1641
Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1628
Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet
1552
Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1532
Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1500
Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus
1500
France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1489
Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1303
Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII
1187
Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
476
German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
70
Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
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