2012 Event fter three years in exile, Madagascar's President, Marc Ravalomanana announces he will return to the country 2011 Event The 14th Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan exile movement, plans to retire within days 1997 Death Asfa Wossen, Amha Selassie, crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies 1994 Event Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile 1986 Event U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile 1979 Event Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile 1971 Event Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1967 Death Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies 1962 Birthday Taslima Nasrin, born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, doctor turned author, fled Bangladesh to live in exile since 1994, radical feminist and critic of Islam, works for New York University 1961 Death Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52 1958 Event Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) 1956 Event General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios 1955 Event Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia 1954 Event CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co 1950 Event King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium 1949 Birthday James P Pennington, rocker, Exile 1946 Event King George II of Greece returns from exile 1946 Birthday Phyllis Eisenstein, U.S., sci-fi author, Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile 1944 Event De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1943 Death Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1942 Event Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1941 Event Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier 1941 Event General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London 1940 Event Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile 1940 Event Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London 1940 Event Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile 1940 Event Norwegian government in exile forms in London 1940 Birthday Paul Cox, actor, Exile, Golden Braid, Touch Me 1940 Event Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile 1928 Event Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1859 Event Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery 1820 Birthday Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose, Exile of Sita 1815 Event Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena 1660 Event King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England 1653 Event Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile 1302 Event Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1165 Event Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
