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Hostages
1997
SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
1992
Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1991
Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland
1990
Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
1990
Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
1990
Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1990
Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990
Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari)
1990
Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1990
Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1985
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1981
US and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1980
Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1980
Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages
1980
Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages
1980
Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy
1980
U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1980
U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1980
6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians
1979
World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages
1979
Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1979
Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages
1979
500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1977
W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1977
West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers
1977
Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977
Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C.
1977
Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
1975
6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
1974
FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
1964
Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1960
Colin Firth, born in Hampshire, England, actor, Femme Fatale, Hostages
1942
116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1942
5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1942
German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942
German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1929
Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
1760
Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George
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