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| 1. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|Israeli airborne commandos freed 103 hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport|racing champion Niki Lauda suffered serious burns in the German Grand Prix |
| 2. | An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Suphanburi, Thailand, killing all 223 on board|Mike Tyson was charged with the rape of Desiree Washington |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | Cilla Black|George Harrison|Julio Iglesias|Billie Jean King|John Major|Christopher Walken |
| 5. | Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record|the FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany|Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country |
| 6. | Paula Abdul|Matthew Broderick|MC Hammer|Rosie O'Donnell|Phillip Schofield|Wesley Snipes |
| 7. | The Godfather was released in cinemas worldwide|the Watergate Scandal began with five White House operatives being arrested for burglary|Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion |
| 8. | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom died aged 81|U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York|Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, a Morse code letter 'S' sent from England to Newfoundland |
| 9. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
| 10. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battle of the Sexes|Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, London |
| 11. | John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth|West Side Story won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Beatles drummer Pete Best was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr |
| 12. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
| 13. | Described by doctors as "dangerous" and "ridiculous"; in a rambling speech in April 2020, what two things did Donald Trump suggest as treatments for coronavirus? |
| 14. | Gaining notoriety in a 2020 documentary TV series, by what name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage better known? |
| 15. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
| 16. | Prime Minister of Thailand Chatichai Choonhavan was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état|the Gulf War ended with Operation Desert Storm and the Liberation of Kuwait|the Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting |
| 17. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
| 18. | Nadia Comăneci|Billy Ray Cyrus|Laurence Fishburne|Ricky Gervais|Wayne Gretzky|Woody Harrelson |
| 19. | U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was elected Democratic presidential candidate| Cyprus became independent from the United Kingdom|21-year-old American rock singer Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in south England |
| 20. | the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan |
| 21. | Pan Am began the first commercial 747 service, flying from New York to London|Black Sabbath released their self-named début album|the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed |
| 22. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
| 23. | Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook|the Summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece|Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world at the time, officially opened |
| 24. | 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 |
| 25. | Bill Gates founded Microsoft|Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing|The Birmingham Six were wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 26. | The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station|Argentina won the FIFA World Cup|Out of Africa won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture |
| 27. | Fleetwood Mac released their Grammy-winning album Rumours|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee|a 25 hour blackout in New York City resulted in city-wide disorder and looting |
| 28. | Fred and Rosemary West were arrested in England after police excavated human bones in their back garden|between 500,000 and 1 million people were slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide|Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix |
| 29. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
| 30. | Seven Manchester United players were among the 21 killed in the Munich air disaster|Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army as a Private|The Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Academy awards, including Best Picture |
| 31. | Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as President of the United States|Joseph Stalin died after suffering a stroke|the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey |
| 32. | Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the UK due to ill-health at the age of 80|Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois|James Dean was killed in a car crash |
| 33. | On the roof of Apple Records, London, The Beatles gave their last public performance|the Boeing 747 and Concorde both flew for the first time|Willy Brandt became Chancellor of West Germany |
| 34. | Three astronauts were killed when Apollo 1 caught fire during testing|Aretha Franklin released her signature song, Respect|riots in Detroit resulted in 43 dead and 1,189 injured |
| 35. | Raiders of the Lost Ark was released worldwide|U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr.|Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated |
| 36. | John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States|a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium wiped out the entire United States figure skating team|construction of the Berlin Wall began |
| 37. | Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow |
| 38. | The Beatles were famously rejected after auditioning for Decca Records|First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy took television viewers on a tour of the White House|Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premièred in UK theatres |
| 39. | David Duchovny|Hugh Grant|Nigella Lawson|Ayrton Senna|Tilda Swinton|Bradley Walsh |
| 40. | Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. and fell into the Potomac River|Chariots of Fire won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture|the Commodore 64 home computer was released |
| 41. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
| 42. | Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|$18.9 million was stolen from the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California, the largest cash robbery in U.S. history|the first computer to win a match against a World Chess Champion, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov |
| 43. | Jeff Bezos|Don Cheadle|Chris Cornell|Prince Edward|Earl of Wessex|Bridget Fonda|David Spade |
| 44. | Joe Cocker|Roger Daltrey|Gary Glitter|Gladys Knight|Jimmy Page|Barry White |
| 45. | David Cameron|Stefan Edberg|Samantha Fox|Mikhail Mishustin|Kiefer Sutherland|Robin Wright |
| 46. | Western Allies began the Berlin Airlift|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|Korea was divided into North and South |
| 47. | Sir Winston Churchill died, aged 90|My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins won 13 Academy Awards between them|Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested |
| 48. | 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 |
| 49. | Robert Carlyle|Peter Jackson|Heather Locklear|Barack Obama|Dennis Rodman|Forest Whitaker |
| 50. | 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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