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1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most home runs by a catcher

1993 Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught

1992 Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport

1992 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel

1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50

1989 H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins

1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school

1987 Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected

1986 Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game

1986 San Francisco Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times

1985 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin

1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire

1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)

1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught

1967 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia

1967 Max Ophuls, [Oppenheimer], German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies

1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo

1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)

1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod

1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile

1948 Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Aust, caught 44 stumped 21), dies

1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands

1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22

1941 Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death

1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa

1922 Barbara Bel Geddes, New York City, actress, Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught

1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught

1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught

1901 Leo Poos, nazi police officer, caught Dutch underground agents

1898 French troops reach Guinea and Sudan, Samori caught

1875 Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter, Caught Sultane

1869 Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress, Caught Short

1867 Herbert Prior, born in England, actor, Caught Short, Slave of Desire

1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught

1812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!

1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium

1397 Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom

357 Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught



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