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2013 Event - The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

2013 Event - After being hospitalized for nine days for pneumonia, former South African President Nelson Mandela, age 94, was released from the hospital

2013 Event - South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after having "successful" medical tests; prior reports stated he was hospitalized for a routine checkup

2013 Event - According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities

2013 Event - After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas

2012 Event - A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - A report on the nuclear program of Iran released by the IAEA, highlights concern over Iran's nuclear program as the country reportedly has doubled its number of centrifuges as the Fordow facility

2012 Event - After 70 years, two papers on Alan Turing's theory of code-breaking are released to the U.K.'s National Archives

2012 Event - Data from the 1940 U.S. census is released including information on 132 million people

2012 Event - After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government

2011 Event - The music video for the single, 'Marry the Night' is released by pop singer Lady Gaga; the song is from her 2011 album 'Born This Way'

2011 Event - The most expensive Bollywood film to date, Ra.One, is released to coincide with Diwali, the Hindu festival

2011 Event - Google's new social network service, Google+, is released to the general public

2011 Event - The Foreign Ministry of Iran calls for Musa al-Sadr to be released; they claim he has been held in Libya since 1978

2011 Event - Casey Anthony, cleared of murdering her daughter Caylee and set to be released from the Orange County, Florida jail, attracts major crowds unhappy with the judgement

2011 Event - Secret documents on Egypt's nuclear power plant are released by WikiLeaks

2011 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama chooses not release photos of Osama bin Laden following his death; photos taken at the Abbotabad compound are released by Reuters

2011 Event - In England, the guest list for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is released

2011 Event - As part of a crackdown on dissent in China, 169 Chinese Christians attempting to hold an outdoor prayer session were detained, then released

2010 Event - WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is released on bail

2010 Event - U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal a cable from Hillary Clinton accusing Saudi Arabia's rich of being the largest source of funding for Sunni terrorist groups

2010 Event - After a series of delays, Iran agrees to release U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, arrested in 2009; she is released on bail and permitted to leave the country

2010 Event - Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history

2010 Event - Over 700 former Tamil Tigers are released by the Sri Lankan army after completing a rehabilitation program

2005 Event - XBox 360 video game is released by Microsoft

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

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

1997 Event - Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud

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

1996 Event - Netscape Browser 3.0 is released

1996 Event - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released

1996 Event - "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released

1995 Event - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center

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

1995 Event - "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released

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

1995 Event - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

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

1995 Event - 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 Event - PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail

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

1994 Event - General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery

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

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

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

1994 Event - Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

1993 Event - F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident

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

1993 Event - Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion

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

1992 Event - "Batman Returns" is released in USA

1991 Event - Maximus 2.0 BBS released

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

1991 Event - Singer James Brown is released from prison

1990 Event - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident

1990 Event - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody

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

1988 Event - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

1988 Event - Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released

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

1987 Event - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released

1987 Event - "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France

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

1987 Event - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany

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

1986 Event - Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco

1986 Event - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

1986 Event - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

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

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

1985 Event - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released

1985 Event - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP

1985 Event - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released

1985 Event - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

1983 Event - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

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

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

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

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

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

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

1981 Event - Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC

1981 Event - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt

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

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

1980 Event - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported

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

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

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

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

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

1978 Birthday - Mario Vazquez, born in The Bronx, New York, singer, competitor on television show, 'American Idol', released album, 'Mario Vazquez' with Arista Records in 2005

1977 Event - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released

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

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

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

1977 Event - Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released

1977 Event - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released

1977 Event - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1972 Birthday - 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 Event - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK

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

1971 Birthday - Selena, born Selena Quintanilla-Perez, born in Lake Jackson, Texas, Mexican American singer, called 'The Queen of Tejano music', released first album at age 12

1970 Event - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released

1970 Event - Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album

1970 Birthday - Ani Difranco, born in Buffalo, New York, singer, musician, guitarist, songwriter, considered a feminist icon, released over twenty albums

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

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

1970 Event - Miles Davis Bitches Brew released

1970 Event - Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1969 Event - Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released

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

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

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

1969 Event - "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating

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

1969 Event - Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

1969 Event - Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US

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

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

1967 Event - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released

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

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

1966 Event - Beatles' "Revolver" album is released

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

1966 Event - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released

1966 Event - Love's 1st album released "Love"

1965 Event - Beatles "Help" is released in UK

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

1965 Birthday - Frank Black, born in Boston, Massachusetts, guitarist, singer, songwriter, albums include, 'Bossanova', 'Trompe le Monde', released two albums with band, Pixies

1964 Event - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

1964 Event - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released

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

1964 Event - "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US

1964 Event - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

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

1963 Birthday - Coolio, born in Compton, California, rapper, and actor, released hit debut single, 'Fantastic Voyage', 1994, and 'Gangsta's Paradise', 1995

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

1962 Birthday - 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 Event - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released

1961 Birthday - 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 Event - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released

1959 Birthday - Joyce Sims, born in Rochester, New York, singer, songwriter, released U.S. and UK hit single titled, 'Come Into My Life', 1987

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

1959 Event - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

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

1957 Birthday - Peter Murphy, born in Northampton, England, vocalist, goth rock genre, member of rock group, Bauhaus, released solo albums Deep, Love Hysteria, nicknamed, 'The Godfather of Goth'

1956 Birthday - Kenny G, born in Seattle, Washington, born Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, saxophonist, composer, songwriter, breakthrough album, Duotones, released in 1986

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

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

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

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

1951 Event - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

1950 Event - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1949 Event - 1st 45 RPM record released

1946 Event - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1945 Event - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released

1944 Event - Japanese-Americans released from detention camps

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

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

1941 Event - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

1940 Event - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released

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

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

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

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

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

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

1933 Event - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1931 Event - 1st Dracula movie released

1928 Event - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released

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

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

1926 Event - Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager

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

1924 Event - Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

1921 Event - "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released

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

1920 Death - 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 Event - New Canadian small cent coin is released

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

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

1917 Event - 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released

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

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

1912 Event - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released

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

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

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

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

1851 Birthday - 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 Event - 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails

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

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

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

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