2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama bans the use of certain military equipment by police in the wake of recent deaths of unarmed black men by police officers; the move is meant to help communities see police as protectors rather than as an 'occupied force' 2014 Event Peshmerga fighters have occupied part of Sinjar Mountain, retaking the territory from ISIS militants; around 1,500 Yazidi families, trapped on the mountain, have been liberated 2011 Event New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest 1992 Event Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets 1990 Event Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories 1989 Event Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq 1987 Event Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel 1980 Event Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 1978 Event Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai 1967 Event U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land 1951 Birthday Roz Ryan, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, Amelia-Amen, Occupied 1948 Event 1st U.S. house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Massachusetts) 1945 Event U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany 1945 Event Russian troops occupied Prague 1945 Event Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed 1944 Event In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians 1943 Event German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City 1942 Event Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" 1942 Event British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire 1941 Event Sarawak occupied by Japanese 1941 Event 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England 1941 Event Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists 1940 Event German forces occupied Paris during WW II 1939 Event Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas 1939 Event 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania 1934 Event U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 1923 Event Italian troops leave occupied Korfu 1923 Event KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies 1923 Event Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied 1915 Event Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans 1896 Birthday Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic, Occupied City 1890 Birthday Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar, Occupied Territory 1865 Event Battle of Wilmington, North Carolina (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals 1865 Event Battle of Ft. Moultrie, South Carolina occupied by Federals 1861 Event Alexandria, Virginia occupied by Federal troops 1798 Event Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg 1745 Event Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders 1543 Birthday Johan Casimir, count of Rhine, occupied Gent
