2014 Event 27 hostages have been freed in Cameroon, including the wife of vice prime minister Amadou Ali and a group of Chinese workers; Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible 2014 Event 49 hostages of the Islamic State are freed and returned to Turkey after an operation enacted by the Turkish government after the June kidnapping in Mosul, Iraq; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not give information regarding its actions 2011 Event Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack 2008 Event Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombia 1997 Event SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages 1992 Death Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 1991 Event Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland 1990 Event Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages 1990 Event Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages 1990 Event Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages 1990 Event Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1990 Event Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) 1990 Event Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages 1990 Event Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields) 1985 Event 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut 1981 Event U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1980 Event Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds 1980 Event Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages 1980 Event Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages 1980 Event Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy 1980 Event U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die 1980 Event U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran 1980 Event 6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians 1979 Event World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages 1979 Event Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) 1979 Event Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages 1979 Event 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1977 Event W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1977 Event West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1977 Event Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland 1977 Event Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. 1977 Event Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) 1975 Event 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days 1974 Event FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party 1964 Event Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville 1960 Birthday Colin Firth, born in Hampshire, England, actor, Femme Fatale, Hostages 1942 Event 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris 1942 Event 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 1929 Event Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free 1760 Event Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George
