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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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