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1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1995 Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners 1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners 1985 1150 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis 1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners 1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru 1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla) 1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war 1971 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison 1962 Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty 1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers 1956 East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford 1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen 1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed 1944 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad 1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma 1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) 1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay 1923 Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families and prisoners of war 1919 Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' 1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners 1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson 1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard 1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails 1815 English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed 1815 U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute 1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war 1787 De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko |
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