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| 1. | Eleven thieves stole more than $2 million from the Brink's armoured car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts|the first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone, England|North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, marking the start of the Korean War |
| 2. | 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 |
| 3. | Richard Ayoade|Tom Brady|John Cena|Michael Fassbender|Ronan Keating|Liv Tyler |
| 4. | the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea|Australian soap opera Home and Away was aired for the first time|Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people |
| 5. | Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan|Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, died|the SARS epidemic began in Guangdong Province, China |
| 6. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
| 7. | Bob Hawke was elected Prime Minister of Australia|Tokyo Disneyland opened|in London, £26m worth of gold bars were stolen in the Brinks Matt robbery |
| 8. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
| 9. | James Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys in Liverpool, England|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia|tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed during a match in Hamburg |
| 10. | 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 |
| 11. | Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito|the Ayatollah Khomeini died|the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place |
| 12. | Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup to become president of Uganda|East Pakistan became Bangladesh after gaining independence from Pakistan|Jim Morrison of The Doors was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, France |
| 13. | George Best|Ted Bundy|Tim Curry|Diane Keaton|Steven Spielberg|Donald Trump |
| 14. | Jeff Goldblum|David Hasselhoff|Imran Khan|Liam Neeson|Mr. T|Harvey Weinstein |
| 15. | Patricia Arquette|Gary Coleman|Terry Crews|LL Cool J|Lisa Marie Presley|Naomi Watts |
| 16. | "Liberty by Lily Allen" is a product launched by the singer in October 2020, garnering many 5-star reviews. What is it? |
| 17. | The Sound of Music won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India for the first time|Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell as Doctor Who |
| 18. | 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 |
| 19. | The Summer of Love began in the U.S. and spread around the world|the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles|Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu married in Las Vegas |
| 20. | Leonid Brezhnev became General Secretary of the Soviet Union|Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were convicted and sentenced|Walt Disney died while producing The Jungle Book, the last animated feature under his personal supervision |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
| 23. | Ben Affleck|Cameron Diaz|Idris Elba|Eminem|Dwayne Johnson|Zinedine Zidane |
| 24. | Pamela Anderson|Kurt Cobain|Vin Diesel|Nicole Kidman|Julia Roberts|Jason Statham |
| 25. | Sandra Bullock|Courteney Cox|Nicolas Cage|Rob Lowe|Keanu Reeves|Russell Crowe |
| 26. | A suicide bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people|Sally Ride became the first American woman in space|Neil Kinnock was elected leader of the British Labour Party |
| 27. | David Beckham|Judy Greer|Lauryn Hill|Sean Lennon|Tobey Maguire|Kate Winslet |
| 28. | Edward Heath became Prime Minister of the UK|Jimi Hendrix died in London of drug related complications|Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
| 29. | 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 |
| 30. | 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 |
| 31. | 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 |
| 32. | Walt Disney's Peter Pan premiered around the world|U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier| Laos and Cambodia became independent from France |
| 33. | Gemma Arterton|Usain Bolt|Megan Fox|Lady Gaga|Amber Heard|Shia LaBeouf |
| 34. | Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile|William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was first published|the first Burger King opened in Miami, Florida |
| 35. | the Jonestown incident in Guyana ended with a mass murder-suicide claiming 918 lives|American porn publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralysed|serial killer Ted Bundy was captured in Pensacola, Florida |
| 36. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
| 37. | Aisling Bea|LeBron James|Scarlett Johansson|Trevor Noah|Katy Perry|Mark Zuckerberg |
| 38. | U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon|The Sears Tower in Chicago was finished, becoming the world's tallest building |
| 39. | Tyra Banks|Kate Beckinsale|Ryan Giggs|Monica Lewinsky|Paul Walker|Pharrell Williams |
| 40. | Return of the Jedi opened in theatres worldwide|Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada |
| 41. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
| 42. | Diego Maradona|Jeremy Clarkson|Bono|Colin Firth|Jean-Claude Van Damme|Sean Penn |
| 43. | Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father, one day before his 45th birthday|English comedian Tommy Cooper died of a massive heart attack while live on TV|The Chicago White Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history |
| 44. | Richard Nixon died at the age of 81|Tony Blair was elected leader of the British Labour Party|Woodstock celebrated its 25th Anniversary |
| 45. | The comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth|Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing|Diana, Princess of Wales died following a car crash in Paris |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | The Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada|a Thai military crack down on the "Red Shirts" protests in Bangkok ended with 91 dead and more than 2,100 injured|Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia |
| 48. | Ireland became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote|Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born|Volkswagen was publicly accused of the worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests |
| 49. | The Kobe earthquake in Japan killed 6,434 people|the Oklahoma City bombing claimed the lives of 168|O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of double murder in his criminal trial |
| 50. | the comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth|the Bank of Thailand floated the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis|Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing |
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