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1996 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75 1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa 1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins 1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1971 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison 1970 Palestinians seize 3 jetliners 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College 1968 Howard University students seize administration building 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria 1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier 1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction 1868 Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida 1861 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE 1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft. Smith 1861 State troops seize U.S. munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay 1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras 1574 Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish 1098 After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey

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