2015 Event Nigerian troops rescue 93 women and 200 girls from Boko Haram encampments in the Sambisa Forest; the 'Chibok girls', kidnapped by the militants last year and taken into the forest, were not among those rescued 2014 Event African leaders meet in Paris to discuss ways to fight Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls over a month ago in Nigeria; the country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been seen as slow to respond to the situation 2002 Death Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38 1994 Event Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped 1992 Death Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67 1989 Event Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1989 Event Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed 1989 Death Stephane Steinier, Belgian journalist, kidnapped and murdered 1989 Event Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped 1988 Event U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed 1987 Death Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered 1987 Event Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon 1986 Event U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut 1985 Event American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon 1984 Death Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered 1984 Event Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) 1983 Event Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam 1983 Event Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped 1983 Event Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance 1980 Death John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83 1978 Event Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found 1978 Event Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped 1978 Event Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris 1977 Event Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped 1977 Event Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found 1976 Death Francis E Meloy, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed 1975 Event Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland 1975 Event CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin 1974 Event Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA 1974 Event Patty Hearst kidnapped 1974 Event Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army 1973 Event Paul Getty III kidnapped 1967 Event Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria 1967 Death Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61 1965 Death Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris 1963 Event Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped 1963 Event Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped 1958 Event 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 1932 Event Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey 1932 Event Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son 1932 Event Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey 1926 Event Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped 1905 Birthday Duncan Macrae, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actor, Casino Royale, Kidnapped 1904 Event American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
