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1. | 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 |
2. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
3. | U2 released their studio album The Joshua Tree|The Simpsons cartoon first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show|the last remaining prisoner at Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess, was found dead in his cell |
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 |
5. | Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer married at St Paul's Cathedral|riots in Toxteth (Liverpool), Handsworth (Birmingham), Moss Side (Manchester), and Chapeltown (Leeds) all took place in July|serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment |
6. | Rob Gronkowski|Anthony Joshua|Daniel Radcliffe|Daniel Ricciardo|Taylor Swift|Anton Yelchin |
7. | Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito|the Ayatollah Khomeini died|the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place |
8. | 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 |
9. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
10. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
11. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
12. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
13. | A Man for All Seasons won Best Picture at the 39th Academy Awards|Muhammad Ali was arrested for refusing induction into the U.S. Army|Che Guevara was captured and executed in Bolivia |
14. | George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the United States|the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, ending a 9 year long war|Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a US$3m bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie |
15. | Nelson Mandela was released from prison|Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Gulf War began with Iraq invading Kuwait |
16. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
17. | In May 2020, what market town near Durham, England came to national attention when the chief advisor of the British Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings, was discovered to have driven there with his family during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
18. | Alice Cooper|Olivia Newton-John|Ted Nugent|Robert Plant|Cat Stevens|Steven Tyler |
19. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
20. | Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela|"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 |
21. | Edward Heath became Prime Minister of the UK|Jimi Hendrix died in London of drug related complications|Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
22. | Elvis Presley entered the U.S. charts for the first time with Heartbreak Hotel|the film version of The King and I was released, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner|The United Kingdom and France bombed Egypt during the Suez Crisis |
23. | Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France|John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted their Bed-In at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec| and Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon |
24. | Chester Bennington|Cat Deeley|Cillian Murphy|Ross Noble|Ryan Reynolds|Alicia Silverstone |
25. | President George H. W. Bush ordered a cease-fire and declared victory over Iraq in the Gulf War|Harald V became King of Norway|the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was published by Sega |
26. | A Man for All Seasons won Best Picture at the 39th Academy Awards|Muhammad Ali was arrested for refusing induction into the U.S. Army|the Six-Day War saw Israel capture land in Egypt, Jordan and Syria |
27. | 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 |
28. | the Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|16 people survived an air crash in the Andes mountains by resorting to cannibalism|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon |
29. | Mike Tyson was jailed for raping Desiree Washington|the English FA Premier League was officially founded|Bill Clinton won his first presidential election |
30. | More than 133,000 in Myanmar were killed by Cyclone Nargis|Barack Obama was elected President of the United States|protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy stormed into Suvarnabhumi Airport and blocked flights from taking off |
31. | 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 |
32. | 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 |
33. | Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffered a severe stroke and cerebral haemorrhage|Serbia and Montenegro divided into two independent countries|Thaksin Shinawatra was removed from power in a military coup d'état in Thailand |
34. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
35. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
36. | Mike Tyson made his professional début in New York|Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French agents|the wreck of the Titanic was finally located |
37. | Aston Villa won the European Cup|the world's first CDs went on sale to the public|Henry VIII's flagship, The Mary Rose, was raised |
38. | Whose seven year reign as coach of the England rugby union team ended on 6th December 2022? |
39. | Diego Maradona|Jeremy Clarkson|Bono|Colin Firth|Jean-Claude Van Damme|Sean Penn |
40. | Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood |
41. | Eric Clapton|Goldie Hawn|Bob Marley|Steve Martin|Tom Selleck|Rod Stewart |
42. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
43. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
44. | 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 |
45. | 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 |
46. | Rick Astley|Stephen Baldwin|Helena Bonham Carter|Alan Davies|Patrick Dempsey|Chris Eubank |
47. | Christina Aguilera|Zooey Deschanel|Russell Howard|Chris Pine|Jessica Simpson|Channing Tatum |
48. | Adam Ant|Ellen Barkin|Hugo Chavez|Angela Merkel|Jerry Seinfeld|John Travolta |
49. | U.S. President Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term in office|the Heysel Stadium Disaster killed 39 and injured 600|Back to the Future was released in cinemas around the world |
50. | Aisling Bea|LeBron James|Scarlett Johansson|Trevor Noah|Katy Perry|Mark Zuckerberg |
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