2010 Event Somali pirates seize a freighter from Syria with 24 crewmembers in the Gulf of Aden 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a German-owned tanker, MS Marida Marguerite, off the coast of Somalia 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a North-Korean flagged cargo ship south of Yemen 1996 Death Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75 1992 Event Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic 1991 Event Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa 1990 Event Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine 1982 Event Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1980 Event Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins 1980 Event Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London 1979 Event 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1971 Event 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison 1970 Event Palestinians seize 3 jetliners 1968 Event Students seize administration building at Ohio State 1968 Event Students seize building at Bowie State College 1968 Event Howard University students seize administration building 1967 Event 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 1967 Event Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University 1961 Event Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria 1950 Event President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1948 Event Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier 1947 Event British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1944 Event German troops seize Betuwse dikes 1943 Event German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1940 Event Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam 1884 Event Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1874 Event Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction 1868 Event Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida 1861 Event Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE 1861 Event Arkansas troops seize Ft. Smith 1861 Event State troops seize U.S. munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas 1861 Event Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola 1861 Event Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay 1849 Event British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras 1574 Event Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish 1098 Event After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
