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| 1. | the Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service |
| 2. | Euro notes and coins were introduced for the first time|Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan|Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, died |
| 3. | Jimmy Carter succeeded Gerald Ford as President of the United States|Red Rum won a record third Grand National at Aintree racecourse|the first Apple II and Commodore Pet computers went on sale |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
| 6. | Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservative Party|NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars|U.S. President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts |
| 7. | David Beckham|Judy Greer|Lauryn Hill|Sean Lennon|Tobey Maguire|Kate Winslet |
| 8. | a massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia started the Kosovo War|the FIFA World Cup was held in France|Google was founded in California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
| 9. | 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 |
| 10. | The Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon |
| 11. | 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 |
| 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. | The Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time|Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union|an IRA bomb killed 5 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton |
| 14. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
| 15. | Phil Collins|Mark Hamill|Michael Keaton|Kurt Russell|Sting|Robin Williams |
| 16. | Eric Clapton|Goldie Hawn|Bob Marley|Steve Martin|Tom Selleck|Rod Stewart |
| 17. | 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 |
| 18. | The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station|Argentina won the FIFA World Cup|Out of Africa won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture |
| 19. | The RMS Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour|Ceylon became a Republic and changed its name to Sri Lanka|Eugene Cernan became the last person to walk on the moon |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | The Australian dollar replaced the Australian pound|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premièred worldwide|Luna 9 and Surveyor 1 achieved the first lunar soft landings |
| 23. | the Post Office Tower opened in London|the classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuted in the United Kingdom|200 Alabama State Troopers attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama in what was to become known as Bloody Sunday |
| 24. | Richard Nixon died at the age of 81|Tony Blair was elected leader of the British Labour Party|Woodstock celebrated its 25th Anniversary |
| 25. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
| 26. | Tom Cruise|Jim Carrey|Steve Carell|Demi Moore|Ralph Fiennes|Jodie Foster |
| 27. | George Best|Ted Bundy|Tim Curry|Diane Keaton|Steven Spielberg|Donald Trump |
| 28. | George W. Bush was sworn into office, succeeding Bill Clinton as President of the United States|Russian space station Mir re-entered the atmosphere to end its 15 year service in the Pacific Ocean|the first iPod was introduced by Apple |
| 29. | The Beatles released their début album Please Please Me|Lawrence of Arabia won Best Picture at the 35th Academy Awards|Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial |
| 30. | Bill Clinton succeeded George H.W. Bush as President of the United States|James Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys in Liverpool, England|the Sunset Limited train crash in Alabama killed 47 |
| 31. | Whose seven year reign as coach of the England rugby union team ended on 6th December 2022? |
| 32. | Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito|the Ayatollah Khomeini died|the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place |
| 33. | 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 |
| 34. | Björn Borg|David Copperfield|Geena Davis|Andy Garcia|Theresa May|Joe Montana |
| 35. | King Edward VIII succeeded, and abdicated, the throne of the United Kingdom|the Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany|the Crystal Palace in London was destroyed by fire |
| 36. | Sid Vicious was found dead of a heroin overdose, aged 21, in New York City|the first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan|the Iran hostage crisis began with 90 hostages being taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran |
| 37. | ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest singing Waterloo|Helmut Schmidt took over as Chancellor of West Germany after Willy Brandt resigned|Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in The Rumble in the Jungle |
| 38. | Concorde made its first commercial flight|James Callaghan replaced Harold Wilson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|at least 46 were killed in the Thammasat University massacre in Bangkok |
| 39. | Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars at the 32nd Academy Awards|the Great Chilean Earthquake, at 9.5, was, and still is, the strongest ever recorded|the Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia in the final of football's first ever European Nations Cup |
| 40. | 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 |
| 41. | The Beatles made their first live American TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show|319 were killed in riots at a football game between Peru and Argentina|murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen became the last people to be executed in the UK |
| 42. | 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 |
| 43. | Pat Cash|Steve Coogan|Elizabeth Hurley|Mark Labbett|Lennox Lewis|Sam Mendes |
| 44. | The War in Darfur began|an arsonist destroyed a train in Daegu, South Korea, killing more than 190|the SARS virus was declared to be contained by the World Health Organization |
| 45. | Gaining notoriety in a 2020 documentary TV series, by what name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage better known? |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | Jason Bateman|Cate Blanchett|Jennifer Lopez|Marilyn Manson|Matthew McConaughey|Michael Sheen |
| 48. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
| 49. | 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 |
| 50. | 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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