List of hostage crises

This is a list of notable hostage crisis by date.

Crisis	Place	Start	Duration
2011 Hectorville siege	Hectorville, South Australia, Australia	02011-04-29 29 April 2011	8 hours
October 2010 Baghdad church attack	Baghdad, Iraq	02010-10-31 31 October 2010	About 4 hours
2010 Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis	Silver Spring, Maryland, United States	02010-09-01 1 September 2010	About 5 hours
2010 Manila hostage crisis	Manila, Philippines	02010-08-23 23 August 2010	10 hours 30 mins
May 2010 attacks on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore	Lahore, Pakistan	02010-05-28 28 May 2010	Some hours
October 2009 Lahore attacks	Lahore, Pakistan	02009-10-15 15 October 2009	1 hour 30 mins
2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack	Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan	02009-10-10 10 October 2009	1 day
The Lakes Hotel Rosebery siege	Rosebery, New South Wales, Australia	02009-05-31 31 May 2009	5 hours
2009 Binghamton shootings	Binghamton, New York, United States	02009-04-03 3 April 2009	1 day
2009 Lahore police academy attacks	Lahore, Pakistan	02009-03-30 30 March 2009	Some hours
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Mutiny	Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh	02009-02-25 25 February 2009	2 days
November 2008 Mumbai attacks	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India	02008-11-26 26 November 2008	3 days
Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis	Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil	02008-10-13 13 October 2008	4 days
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis	Rochester, New Hampshire, United States	02007-11-30 30 November 2007	About 5 hours
South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan	En route from Kandahar to Kabul, Afghanistan	02007-07-19 19 July 2007	42 days
Siege of Lal Masjid	Lal Masjid, Islamabad, Pakistan	02007-07-03 3 July 2007	9 days
Johnson Space Center shooting	Houston, Texas, United States	02007-04-20 20 April 2007	About 3 hours
Amish school shooting	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States	02006-10-02 2 October 2006	Some hours
Platte Canyon High School shooting	Bailey, Colorado, United States	02006-09-27 27 September 2006	About 4 hours
Chrobog family kidnapping	Yemen	02005-12-28 28 December 2005	3 days
October 2005 Nalchik attack	Nalchik, Russia	02005-10-13 13 October 2005	Some hours
Ennepetal hostage taking	Ennepetal, Germany	02005-04-12 12 April 2005	About 6 hours
Beslan school hostage crisis	Beslan, Russia	02004-09-01 1 September 2004	3 days
2004 Khobar massacre	Khobar, Saudi Arabia	02004-05-29 29 May 2004	25 hours
Sahara hostage crisis 2003	Algeria	02003-01-22 22 January 2003	208 days
Moscow theater hostage crisis	Moscow, Russia	02002-10-23 23 October 2002	2½ days
Akshardham Temple attack	Gujarat, India	02002-09-24 24 September 2002	2 days
Dos Palmas kidnappings	Palawan, Philippines	02001-05-27 27 May 2001	varied period
Operation Barras	Sierra Leone	02000-10-10 10 October 2000	17 days
Bus 174	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	02000-06-12 12 June 2000	Some hours
Fiji coup of 2000	Suva, Fiji	02000-05-19 19 May 2000	56 days
2000 Sipadan Kidnapping Crisis	Jolo, Philippines	02000-04-23 23 April 2000	varied period
Standoff of Joseph C. Palczynski	Dundalk, Maryland	02000-03-17 17 March 2000	4 days
Indian Airlines Flight 814	Kathmandu, Nepal / / India / Dubai, UAE / Kandahar, Afghanistan	01999-12-24 24 December 1999	8 days
Japanese embassy hostage crisis	Lima, Peru	01996-12-17 17 December 1996	126 days
Black Sea hostage crisis	En route from Trabzon, Turkey to Sochi, Russia	01996-01-16 16 January 1996	4 days
Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis	Kizlyar and Pervomayskoye, Russia	01996-01-09 9 January 1996	9 days
1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Jammu and Kashmir	Pahalgam, India	01995-07-04 4 July 1995	Unknown
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis	Budyonnovsk, Russia	01995-06-14 14 June 1995	2 days
Air France Flight 8969	Algiers, Algeria; Marseilles, France	01994-12-24 24 December 1994	3 days
1994 kidnappings of Western tourists in India	New Delhi, India	01994-10-20 20 October 1994	12 days
Torp hostage crisis	Sandefjord, Norway	01994-08-28 28 August 1994	2 days
Public Library Hostage Incident	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	01994-03-07 7 March 1994	6 hours
1993 Jolimont Centre siege	Canberra, Australia	01993-11-29 29 November 1993	2 hours
1993 Cangai siege	Cangai, New South Wales, Australia	01993-03-30 30 March 1993	26 hours
Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis	San José, Costa Rica	01993-04-26 26 April 1993	4 days
Alta View Hospital hostage incident	Sandy, Utah, United States	01991-09-20 20 September 1991	18 hours
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis	Sacramento, California, United States	01991-04-04 4 April 1991	About 8 hours
Singapore Airlines Flight 117	Singapore	01991-03-26 26 March 1991	1/2 day
Henry's Pub Hostage Incident	Berkeley, California, United States	0 1990-09-28 28 September 1990	7 hours
Loveland River House Incident	Loveland, Colorado, United States	01989-01-03 3 January 1989	2 hours
Gladbeck hostage crisis	Gladbeck, Germany; the Netherlands; Cologne, Germany	01988-08-16 16 August 1988	3 days
Ouvéa cave hostage taking	Ouvéa, France	01988-04-22 22 April 1988	14 days
Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis	Cokeville, Wyoming, United States	01986-05-16 16 May 1986	2½ hours
Palace of Justice siege	Bogotá, Colombia	01985-11-06 6 November 1985	2 days
Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking	En route from Alexandria to Port Said, Egypt	01985-10-07 7 October 1985	2 days
TWA Flight 847	En route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy	01985-06-14 14 June 1985	16 days
Kav 300 affair	En route from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Ashqelon, Israel	01984-04-12 12 April 1984	2 days
Libyan Embassy Siege	London, United Kingdom	01984-04-17 17 April 1984	11 days
Libyan Hostage Situation 1984	Tripoli, Libya	01984-04-17 17 April 1984	9 months
Sydney's 1984 'Dog Day Afternoon'	Sydney, Australia	01984-01-31 31 January 1984	6 hours
Lebanon hostage crisis	Beirut, Lebanon	01982-07-19 19 July 1982	varied period
Iranian Embassy Siege	London, United Kingdom	01980-04-30 30 April 1980	6 days
Dominican embassy siege	Bogotá, Colombia	01980-02-27 27 February 1980	61 days
Grand Mosque Seizure	Mecca, Saudi Arabia	01979-11-02 2 November 1979	14 days
Iran hostage crisis	Tehran, Iran	01979-11-04 4 November 1979	444 days
Mitsubishi Bank Hostage incident‎	Osaka, Japan	01979-01-26 26 January 1979	2 days
1978 Dutch province hall hostage crisis	Assen, Netherlands	01978-03-13 13 March 1978	1 day
Lufthansa Flight 181 (Landshut hijacking)	Mogadishu, Somalia	01977-10-13 13 October 1977	5 days
Japan Airlines Flight 472 hijacking	En route from Mumbai, India to Tokyo, Japan	01977-09-28 28 September 1977	5 days
Train hijack	De Punt, Netherlands	01977-05-23 23 May 1977	20 days
Elementary school hostage	Bovensmilde, Netherlands	01977-05-23 23 May 1977	20 days
1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege	Washington DC, USA	01977-03-09 9 March 1977	39 hours
Entebbe Airport hostage crisis	Entebbe Airport, Uganda	01976-06-27 27 June 1976	8 days
Balcombe Street Siege	London, United Kingdom	01975-12-06 6 December 1975	5 days
Raid on the OPEC headquarters	Vienna, Austria, hostages were taken to Algiers, Algeria and Tripoli, Libya	01975-12-21 21 December 1975	3 days
Occupation of the Indonesian consulate	Amsterdam, Netherlands	01975-12-04 4 December 1975	15 days
Train hijack	Wijster, Netherlands	01975-12-02 2 December 1975	12 days
Spaghetti House siege	London, United Kingdom	01975-09-28 28 September 1975	6 days
West German embassy siege	Stockholm, Sweden	01975-04-24 24 April 1975	12 hours
Ma'alot massacre	Ma'alot, Israel	01974-05-15 15 May 1974	2 days
Laju incident	Singapore	01974-01-31 31 January 1974	8 days
Norrmalmstorg robbery	Stockholm, Sweden	01973-08-23 23 August 1973	5 days
1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations	Khartoum, Sudan	01973-03-01 1 March 1973	2½ days
Northwest Orient Flight 305 (D.B. Cooper)	Washington / Oregon, United States	01971-11-24 24 November 1971	4 hours
Munich massacre	Munich, Germany	01972-09-05 5 September 1972	21 hours
Hijacking of Sabena Flight 572	Lod, Israel	01972-05-08 8 May 1972	1 day
October Crisis	Quebec, Canada	01970-10-05 5 October 1970	60 days
Siege of Sidney Street	London, United Kingdom	01911-01-02 2 January 1911	2 days
Battle of Ballingarry	Ballingarry, Ireland	01848-07-29 29 July 1848	1 day