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1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field

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

1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

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

1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight

1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1953 British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service

1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland

1949 Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government

1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker

1945 Cologne taken by allied armies

1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany

1943 Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson and Col Juan Peron

1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium

1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis

1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken

1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"

1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island

1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken

1911 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego

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

1874 Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken

1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)

1861 Indianola Texas - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy

1861 Ft. Jackson and Ft. Philip are taken over by LA state troops

1860 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston

1807 Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)

1789 Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken

1781 Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by British

1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois

1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java

1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II



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