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Prisoners
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
German DR 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
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
US 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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