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 Gen 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 MS Dos 6.2 released
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 Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sinksen 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 PM, 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 Neth, 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 John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"
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 UK
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
1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
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 "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 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.
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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