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2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75

1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes

1991 Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70

1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press

1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"

1988 Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies

1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3

1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic

1980 Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"

1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1977 Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies

1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto

1974 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79

1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act

1966 Freedom Williams, rock vocalist, C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now

1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House

1964 Tracy Chapman, U.S. singer and songwriter, Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car

1963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest

1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi

1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama

1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama

1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)

1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South

1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, D.C.

1955 Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa

1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany

1950 Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader, Austrian Freedom Pary

1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco

1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)

1947 Penelope Wilton, actress, Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests

1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday

1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"

1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22

1942 Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads, Radio Freedom

1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49

1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press

1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague

1917 Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press

1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)

1911 Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer, Catapult to Freedom

1909 Elisabeth Welch, singer, Song of Freedom, Over the Moon

1902 Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher, Paradoxes of Freedom

1902 Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom

1902 Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author, 100 years of negro freedom

1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91

1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader, Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom

1888 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter

1883 Hubert Harrison, born in St. Croix, Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter

1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)

1839 Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed

1830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies

1829 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics

1827 1st U.S. black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York City), begins publishing

1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes

1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing

1820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador

1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack

1817 Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies

1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies

1816 Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66

1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

1810 Clark Mills, U.S., sculptor, Freedom, Armed Liberty

1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter, Risorgimento, /unified Italy

1807 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80

1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution

1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army

1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom

1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom

1750 Francisco A G de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter

1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press

1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press)

1726 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter

1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants

1681 Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion

1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion

1660 English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion)

1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship

1629 Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies

1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion

1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion

1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion

1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion

1570 Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots

1564 Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion

1555 Freedom of Religion in Augsburg



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