On this day - 4 September

Ruby Garland played Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. In this, she wears a pair of ruby red slippers which have the ability to return Dorothy to Kansas when she clicks her heels together. Following the film's production, four pairs of the shoes were known to have survived. One of the pairs of shoes was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in her home town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota in August 2005.

On September 4th 2018 the FBI announced they had recovered the stolen shoes after a 13 year police investigation. This pair of shoes were returned to their owner. Interestingly, they are an odd pair of shoes but a perfect match to the pair on display in the Smithsonian Museum which are the inverse unmatched pair.