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2012 Event - A referee lockout that has taken place since June 2012 ends as an agreement is reached between the NFL and NFL Referees Association

2012 Event - Scientists create a 'magic carpet' using optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by detecting when unusual footsteps are taken

2012 Event - A recurrence of a bladder infection causes Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to be taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure

2012 Event - An EU Accession referendum is taken in Croatia; 66% vote to join the EU, and 33% vote against joining

2011 Event - The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner

2011 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama chooses not release photos of Osama bin Laden following his death; photos taken at the Abbotabad compound are released by Reuters

2011 Event - Peruvians reclaimed 45,000 Inca artefacts taken by Yale University from Machu Picchu over a hundred years ago, finally successful in their campaign to return of 'the dignity and pride of Peru'

2011 Event - Saudi Arabia bans all protests after demonstrations have taken place east of the country

2010 Event - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao releases pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang e-2 lunar mission

2010 Event - Six Venezuelan cable television channels are taken off the air by the Venezuelan government after refusing to transmit government messages

2010 Event - Australian researchers discover the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912

1994 Event - 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 Event - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1985 Event - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1985 Event - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

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

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

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

1955 Event - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1953 Event - British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service

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

1949 Event - Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government

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

1945 Event - Cologne taken by allied armies

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

1943 Event - Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron

1942 Event - 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium

1941 Event - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis

1933 Event - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken

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

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

1924 Event - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1807 Event - Curacao is taken by English, until March, 1816

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

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

1689 Event - Montreal taken by Iroquois

1596 Event - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java

1129 Event - Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II

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