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2011 Event - All remaining political prisoners in Tunisia are freed

2007 Event - BBC journalist Alan Johnston is freed by Palestinian kidnappers

1993 Event - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed

1991 Event - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1990 Event - U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

1990 Event - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa

1989 Event - South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed

1989 Event - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1989 Event - Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed

1989 Event - German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed

1987 Event - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed

1985 Event - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut

1984 Event - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1983 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1983 Event - U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge

1982 Event - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed

1982 Event - U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy

1981 Event - Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed

1981 Event - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed

1980 Event - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran

1979 Event - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed

1979 Event - Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed

1978 Event - Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1978 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1977 Event - Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad

1976 Event - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail

1975 Event - Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland

1974 Event - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail

1974 Event - Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed

1972 Event - German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed

1972 Event - West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed

1971 Event - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

1970 Event - French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia

1970 Event - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1970 Event - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed

1968 Event - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed

1966 Event - Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury

1965 Death - Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42

1961 Event - Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya

1961 Event - Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo

1960 Death - Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60

1960 Event - Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola

1960 Event - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico

1959 Event - WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal

1958 Event - Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens

1958 Event - Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio

1958 Event - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits

1957 Event - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show

1956 Event - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

1956 Event - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed

1954 Event - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio

1954 Event - WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show

1952 Event - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever

1951 Event - Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed

1951 Event - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1946 Birthday - Roger Freed, baseball player

1945 Event - Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed

1945 Event - Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)

1945 Event - Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis

1945 Event - Coevorden freed from nazis

1945 Event - Almelo Netherlands freed

1945 Event - Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army

1945 Event - Manila freed from Japanese

1945 Event - Warsaw freed by Soviet army

1944 Event - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed

1944 Event - Zeeuws and Flanders freed

1944 Event - Tholen Island freed

1944 Event - Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from nazi occupation

1944 Event - Riga Latvia freed

1944 Event - Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed

1944 Event - Noorbeek and Mheer freed

1944 Event - Sammellager Drancy freed

1944 Event - Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

1944 Event - Gandhi freed from prison

1943 Event - Corsica freed by Free French

1939 Event - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail

1939 Event - U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

1934 Event - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail

1927 Event - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)

1924 Event - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early

1922 Birthday - Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"

1919 Birthday - Bert Freed, New York City, actor, Rufe-Shane

1900 Event - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed

1900 Birthday - Isadore Freed, composer

1894 Birthday - Arthur Freed, American Producer

1848 Event - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)

1833 Event - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed

1824 Event - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia

1793 Event - Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed

1783 Birthday - Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule

1678 Event - Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower

1550 Event - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed

1526 Event - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief

1526 Event - French king Francois I freed from Spain

1227 Event - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre













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