2014 Event With help from Qatar officials, 45 U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji have been freed by their Syrian rebel captors; the troops were taken hostage two weeks ago after the rebels overtook the Syrian-controlled part of Golan Heights from government troops 2012 Event After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government 2010 Event In Hong Kong, 80,000 people rally in response to last week's fatal tourist coast hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines 1995 Death Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81 1994 Event 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage 1991 Event Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years) 1991 Event Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen 1991 Event Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio 1991 Event U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut 1991 Event Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy 1991 Event Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy 1991 Event Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1990 Event Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California 1990 Event U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians 1990 Event Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months 1987 Event Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1986 Event French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released 1986 Event U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut 1985 Event Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley - CIA station chief in Beirut 1985 Event American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon 1985 Event David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1985 Event Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut 1985 Event Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut 1984 Event Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1983 Event U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge 1982 Event Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives 1982 Event David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon 1981 Event Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 1981 Event Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage 1981 Event 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US 1981 Event 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed 1980 Event American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran 1980 Event Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen 1980 Event Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran 1980 Event Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1980 Event ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" 1979 Event ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage 1979 Event ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") 1979 Event 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran) 1977 Event Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges 1977 Event Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1977 Event Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad 1976 Event Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 1976 Death Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 1960 Birthday Peter Virgile, soap actor, Hostage, Popeye Doyle 1958 Event Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London 1947 Birthday Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/U.S. hostage held in Lebanon, 1985-91 1939 Birthday Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage 1923 Birthday Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage 1914 Birthday Jack Mann, pilot/hostage 1891 Birthday John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights 1883 Event English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1882 Birthday Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel 1653 Death Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 1638 Event Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" 1596 Event Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 1495 Event Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
