2004 76th Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards
2000 Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba
1995 Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
1995 NBA referees return to work after striking
1995 NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
1990 Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
1990 "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1988 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1988 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception
1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
1987 San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant
1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1984 Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1982 Mt. Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Garette Patrick Ratliff, actor, Return to Blue Lagoon
1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM
1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1975 Milla Jovovich, born in Kiev, Ukraine, actress, Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin
1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1972 Emma Ridley, Hanpstead, England, actress, Return to Oz
1972 Brian Krause, actor, December, Sleepwalkers, Return to Blue Lagoon
1971 John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return
1971 U.S. and Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1970 Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit and Return)
1970 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
1970 Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
1970 A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar and return flight
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1967 Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1965 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
1965 Michael Landon, Jr., born in Encino, California, actor, Bonanza The Return
1965 JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return
1964 Philip McKeon, Westbury, New York, actor, Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High
1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1960 Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1960 U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1957 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1957 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Gary Kroeger, born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, comedian, SNL, Return of Shaggy Dog
1956 Scott Jacoby, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High
1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1953 William L Petersen, actor, Return to Lonesome Dove
1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1950 Mark Arnott, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Return of the Secaucus 7
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1947 Denis Lawson, actor, Return of Jedi, Born Kicking, Chain
1944 U.S. forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
1944 Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
1943 Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
1941 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan
1941 Michael Pennington, actor/author, Return of Sherlock Holmes
1941 Glenn Randall, Jr., stuntman, Species, Mrs. Soffel, Return of the Jedi
1938 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
1936 Matt Clark, Washington D.C., actor and director, Return to Oz, Horror Show
1935 Alain Delon, France, actor, Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro
1929 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-University of Alberta)
1925 Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard
1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless
1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1917 Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1912 Samuel Fuller, born in Worchester, Massachusetts, actor, Return to Salem's Lot
1910 Douglas Spencer, actor, Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return
1908 John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor, Tower of London, Return of Fly
1905 Sebastian Shaw, Holt England, actor, Return of Jedi, Chimera
1900 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist, Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974
1897 Naomi Mitchison, author, African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill
1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith
1890 Clara Kimball Young, born in Illinois, actress, Return of Chandu
1880 Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock, Arkansas, general, WW II, he did return!
1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving U.S.; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1833 Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest
1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
1793 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1740 Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1723 J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon
1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
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