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2005 XBox 360 video game is released by Microsoft

2005 6th Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling is released: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2005 Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars III) is released

1997 Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud

1996 Howard Stern's book "Miss America" released in paperback

1996 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released

1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released

1996 "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released

1995 Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center

1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"

1995 "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released

1995 Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)

1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured

1995 Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

1994 PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail

1994 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain

1994 General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery

1994 "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," released in France

1994 Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail

1994 Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days

1994 Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

1993 F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident

1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most home runs by a catcher

1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion

1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months

1992 "Batman Returns" is released in USA

1991 Maximus 2.0 BBS released

1991 U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut

1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison

1990 Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident

1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody

1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)

1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released

1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released

1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released

1987 "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France

1987 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France

1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany

1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released

1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco

1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

1986 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country

1986 "John Lennon: Live in New York City" album is released

1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released

1985 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP

1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released

1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France

1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany

1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released

1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)

1982 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA

1982 10 Arabian oryx, extinct except in zoos, released in Oman

1981 Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC

1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt

1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released

1980 Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released

1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported

1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery

1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison

1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail

1978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail

1977 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released

1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1977 "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in U.K.

1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released

1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1976 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany

1976 Beatles "Rock and Roll Music" LP is released in USA

1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"

1973 President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal

1973 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine

1972 Dane Cook, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Jeffrey Cook, comedian, stand up comic, released five comedy albums, 'Retaliation' went double platinum, the highest charting comedy album in 28 years, appeared in 15 films since 1997, including 'My Best Friend's Girl'

1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK

1971 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released

1970 Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released

1970 Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album

1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US

1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released

1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released

1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released

1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in the United Kingdom

1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK

1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in U.K.

1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating

1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album (never released)

1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US

1968 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea

1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK

1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released

1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released

1967 Dylan's 1965 U.K. Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"

1966 Beatles' "Revolver" album is released

1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in U.K.

1966 Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released

1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"

1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK

1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in U.K.

1964 Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released

1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released

1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US

1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released

1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK

1962 Rachel Sweet, born in Akron, Ohio, singer, songwriter, actress, writer, recorded theme song for Nickelodeon series, Clarissa Explains It All, appeared as George Costanza's cousin, in Seinfeld, television episode, 'The Contest', released Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet, 1992

1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released

1961 Kip Winger, born in Denver, Colorado, Charles Frederick Kip Winger, musician, songwriter, bass guitarist, hard rock, heavy metal, classical, experimental genres, lead singer, Alan Parsons Project, played with Alice Cooper, had band called, Winger, released new CD, 2008

1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released

1959 Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement

1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

1957 Buddy Holly and Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"

1955 Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released

1954 Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released

1953 Michael Byron, born in America, composer, released music on Koch Records, Meridien Records, editor, contemporary music anthologies

1953 Jon Faddis, born in Oakland, California, musician, jazz trumpeter, conductor, composer, music educator, sound compared to his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, member Lionel Hampton's big band, led Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, released Grammy-Award nominated work, Remembrances, 1999

1953 "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City)

1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1949 1st 45 RPM record released

1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1945 Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released

1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps

1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)

1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released

1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released

1940 Frederic from G and S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate

1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released

1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released

1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released

1933 Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released

1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1931 1st Dracula movie released

1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released

1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released

1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed

1926 Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager

1926 Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released

1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

1921 "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released

1921 "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, released

1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies

1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released

1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ

1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released

1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)

1913 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released

1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released

1903 "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released

1902 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon

1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.

1851 Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War

1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails

1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1798 Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail

1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana


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