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Freed
1993
Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
1991
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
U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1990
Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1989
South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed
1989
German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989
Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
1989
German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed
1987
South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
1985
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1984
Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1983
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
1983
U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1982
Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed
1982
U.S. Gen Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
1981
Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed
1981
52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1980
American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1979
3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1979
Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
1978
Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978
War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1977
Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
1976
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1975
Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1974
Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1974
Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1972
German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
1972
West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
1971
John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1970
French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970
RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1970
Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
1968
Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1966
Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1965
Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42
1961
Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
1961
Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo
1960
Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1960
Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960
Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
1959
WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1958
Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens
1958
Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio
1958
WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1957
Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1956
Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1956
German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1954
Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio
1954
WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1952
Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever
1951
Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed
1951
German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1946
Roger Freed, baseball player
1945
Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1945
Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1945
Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis
1945
Coevorden freed from nazis
1945
Almelo Netherlands freed
1945
Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945
Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
1945
Manila freed from Japanese
1945
Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1944
Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
1944
Zeeuws and Flanders freed
1944
Tholen Island freed
1944
Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from nazi occupation
1944
Riga Latvia freed
1944
Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed
1944
Noorbeek and Mheer freed
1944
Sammellager Drancy freed
1944
Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
1944
Gandhi freed from prison
1943
Corsica freed by Free French
1939
Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939
U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1934
Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1927
Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1924
Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1922
Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1919
Bert Freed, New York City, actor, Rufe-Shane
1900
Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1900
Isadore Freed, composer
1894
Arthur Freed, American Producer
1848
Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
1833
Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1824
Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1793
Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
1783
Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1678
Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
1550
English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
1526
Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1526
French king Francois I freed from Spain
1227
Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
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