2014 Event Residents of the West Point shantytown in Monrovia, Nigeria loot an Ebola quarantine center, stealing items that include contaminated bedsheets; patients flee during the raid, raising the risk of spreading the virus among the 50,000 slum inhabitants 2013 Event Indonesia's Mount Sinabung explodes, causing nearly 6,000 people in the country's North Sumatra province to flee 2012 Event Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident, requests help from the U.S. Congress in his attempt to flee China with his family 2011 Event In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee 2011 Event The U.N. reports 10 million people are effected by the worst drought in 60 years, forcing Somalians to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia to avoid starvation 2010 Event Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2010 Event A food crisis in Niger causes Nigerians to flee across the border into Nigeria 1993 Event Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee 1989 Event Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany 1971 Event South Vietnamese troops flee Laos 1953 Event Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome 1951 Event British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to U.S.S.R. 1945 Event Erich Honnecker andErich Hanke flee nazis 1944 Event "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany 1943 Event 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg 1941 Event 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England 1939 Event Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Event 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania 1936 Event Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia 1927 Event Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1925 Event Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) 1899 Event British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa 1879 Event "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 1877 Event Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park 1868 Event Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France 1787 Event Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam 1688 Event King James II's wife and son flee to France 1688 Event King James II's wife and son flee England for France 1642 Event King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford 1455 Event Jews flee Spain 1328 Event William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
