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| 1. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
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1974 | |
| 2. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battles of the Sexes |
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1973 | |
| 3. | 66 were killed in a stairway crush at a Rangers Celtic match in Glasgow, Scotland|in the 'Fight of the Century', Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden|Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida |
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1971 | |
| 4. | Cyprus became independent from the United Kingdom|21-year-old American rock singer Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in south England|U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was elected Democratic presidential candidate |
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1960 | |
| 5. | Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Golden Jubilee|the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah|an Su-27 fighter crashed in Ukraine, killing 77, the deadliest air show accident in history |
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2002 | |
| 6. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
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1942 | |
| 7. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
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1963 | |
| 8. | Josh Duhamel|Geri Halliwell|Alyssa Milano|Thandiwe Newton|Vanessa Paradis|Karl Urban |
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1972 | |
| 9. | Racing driver Jim Clark was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim|Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidential election|The Beatles released their self-titled album, popularly known as the White Album |
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1968 | |
| 10. | Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt began|a mine collapse in Coalbrook, South Africa killed 500 miners|the Summer Olympic Games were held in Rome |
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1960 | |
| 11. | Boris Yeltsin became the first elected president of Russia|an amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 independent states |
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1991 | |
| 12. | The "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia|an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia |
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1993 | |
| 13. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
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1936 | |
| 14. | George V became King of the United Kingdom|the Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet|African-American boxer Jack Johnson's defeat of white American James J. Jeffries sparked race riots across the United States |
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1910 | |
| 15. | Robert Downey Jr.|Sarah Jessica Parker|J.K. Rowling|Charlie Sheen|Brooke Shields|Ben Stiller|Shania Twain |
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1965 | |
| 16. | Chechen terrorists took more than 1,000 hostage in the Beslan school hostage crisis|SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded, manned craft to achieve spaceflight|the world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge, was opened in France |
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2004 | |
| 17. | the Winter Olympics were held in Lillehammer, Norway|Schindler's List won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director|the car ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people |
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1994 | |
| 18. | "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole|U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were bombed, killing 224 and injuring more than 4,500|Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela |
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1998 | |
| 19. | Emily Blunt|Mo Farah|Chris Hemsworth|Pippa Middleton|Aaron Rodgers|Edward Snowden |
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1983 | |
| 20. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
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1971 | |
| 21. | The Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France|boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington|the Bosnian War began |
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1992 | |
| 22. | an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|more than 130 died when the Royal Plaza Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima collapsed|the "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
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1993 | |
| 23. | The UK, Ireland and Denmark joined the EEC|George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship|the Sydney Opera House was opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work |
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1973 | |
| 24. | Two 747s collided on the runway in Tenerife, killing 583|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opened in cinemas worldwide|Steve Biko died from injuries sustained in police custody in South Africa |
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1977 | |
| 25. | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|seatbelt use for drivers and front-seat passengers became mandatory in the United Kingdom|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada |
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1983 | |
| 26. | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, premiered around the world|President Richard Nixon declared the U.S. "War on Drugs"|the first book in the Mr. Men series, Mr. Tickle, was first published |
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1971 | |
| 27. | The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing|the first iPod was introduced by Apple |
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2001 | |
| 28. | George H. W. Bush was televised vomiting into the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister and fainting|Denmark won the UEFA European Football Championship|Queen Elizabeth II gave her annus horribilis speech |
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1992 | |
| 29. | the first episode of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses was aired|François Mitterrand became the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic|6,255 people crossed the finish line at the first London Marathon |
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1981 | |
| 30. | Abdullah II inherited the throne after King Hussein of Jordan died from cancer|London was hit with a 13-day bombing campaign by Neo-Nazi militant David Copeland|the Kosovo War came to an end after Yugoslav forces withdrew from Kosovo |
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1999 | |
| 31. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
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1976 | |
| 32. | two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts|British Army soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by terrorists in Woolwich, southeast London|nearly 1500 were injured when a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk |
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2013 | |
| 33. | The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, killing 180|Irish rock band U2 released their album The Joshua Tree|former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment |
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1987 | |
| 34. | three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Spain in the Palomares B-52 crash|Star Trek debuted on NBC with its first episode, The Man Trap|116 children and 28 adults were killed in the Aberfan disaster in South Wales |
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1966 | |
| 35. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
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1957 | |
| 36. | the Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy|Thaksin Shinawatra was removed from power in a military coup d'état in Thailand|Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffered a severe stroke and cerebral haemorrhage |
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2006 | |
| 37. | A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform A spilt oil onto beaches in Santa Barbara, California|the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo was first published|John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar |
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1969 | |
| 38. | The first DeLorean rolled off the production line|Pope John Paul II was shot and nearly killed|NASA put the Space Shuttle into orbit for the first time |
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1981 | |
| 39. | The Apollo 13 mission was aborted after an explosion on board|The Beatles released their 12th and final studio album, Let It Be|a Civil War with the Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia |
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1970 | |
| 40. | The Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran|an accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, caused a partial meltdown|The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan |
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1979 | |
| 41. | Euro notes and coins were introduced for the first time|at least 170 people were killed when Chechen rebels held the audience hostage in the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow|Brazil won the FIFA World Cup, hosted in South Korea and Japan |
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2002 | |
| 42. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
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1952 | |
| 43. | American porn publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralysed|a poison-filled pellet from an umbrella killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London|the Jonestown incident in Guyana ended with a mass murder-suicide claiming 918 lives |
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1978 | |
| 44. | George W. Bush began his second term as President of the United States|Pope John Paul II died|the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles |
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2005 | |
| 45. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
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1975 | |
| 46. | The Who drummer Keith Moon died from an accidental overdose, aged 32, in London, England|Annie Hall won Best Picture at the 50th Academy Awards|a poison-filled pellet from an umbrella killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London |
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1978 | |
| 47. | The Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War|the World Trade Center was officially opened in New York City|Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong |
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1973 | |
| 48. | The Tunisian and Egyptian governments were overthrown amid the Arab Spring protests|an estimated two billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton|Osama bin Laden was killed during an American military operation in Pakistan |
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2011 | |
| 49. | London-based Laker Airways collapsed, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million|Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture|Yuri Andropov became leader of the Soviet Union |
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1982 | |
| 50. | General John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were found guilty and sentenced over the Watergate scandal|Peter Gabriel left Genesis, replaced on lead vocals by drummer Phil Collins|The Rocky Horror Picture Show premièred in cinemas worldwide |
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1975 | |
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