2010 Event In Bauchi, northern Nigeria, an Islamist militant group named Boko Haram raids a prison and frees 721 inmates 1996 Event Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners 1995 Event Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners 1991 Event British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1989 Event South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners 1987 Event South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young 1986 Event U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile 1986 Death Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66 1986 Death Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66 1984 Event Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson 1982 Event Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru 1981 Event FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish 1979 Event Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages 1979 Event East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner 1967 Event Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou 1956 Event East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners 1945 Event Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 Event Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Event Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland 1944 Event Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners 1944 Event 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten 1944 Event British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp 1944 Event U.S. 1st Army frees Namen 1944 Event Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Event British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 1943 Event Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso 1938 Event Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers 1932 Event Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals 1923 Event Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City 1920 Birthday Paul Frees, born in Chicago, Illinois, animation voice, Bullwinkle
