2011 Event The 2011 Syrian uprising continues as Turkey seizes a Syrian ship that is possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army 1990 Event United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace 1982 Event Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands 1979 Event Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power 1977 Event Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1974 Event FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party 1968 Event Government seizes oil fields in Peru 1961 Event India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies 1956 Event Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1956 Event U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker" 1954 Event Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt 1952 Event General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) 1952 Event President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike 1948 Event Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia 1946 Event President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike 1938 Event Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1923 Event Lithuania seizes and annexes country of Memel 1921 Event Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran 1917 Event October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1917 Event In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power 1870 Event Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1861 Event South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor 1833 Event Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic 1812 Event Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain 1772 Event Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 1649 Event Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred 1647 Event British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1598 Event Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso 1598 Event Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
