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1995 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81

1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage

1991 Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years)

1991 Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen

1991 Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio

1991 U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut

1991 Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy

1991 Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy

1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years

1990 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California

1990 U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

1990 Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months

1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released

1986 U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut

1985 Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley

1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon

1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage

1983 U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge

1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives

1982 David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon

1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain

1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed

1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran

1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen

1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"

1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage

1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")

1979 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)

1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges

1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad

1976 Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99

1960 Peter Virgile, soap actor, Hostage, Popeye Doyle

1958 Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London

1954 Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage, Tanya

1947 Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/U.S. hostage held in Lebanon, 1985-91

1939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage

1923 Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage

1914 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage

1891 John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights

1883 English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)

1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel

1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49

1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"

1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java

1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France



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