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| 1. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 2. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premiered around the world|John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|Cleopatra premiered around the world |
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1963 | |
| 3. | 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 |
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1984 | |
| 4. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
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1975 | |
| 5. | At Camp David, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin formally declared that the Cold War was over|Microsoft released Windows 3.1|a fire at Windsor Castle caused over £50 million worth of damage |
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1992 | |
| 6. | Brenda Ann "I don't like Mondays" Spencer opened fire at a school in San Diego, killing two|Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II agreement in Vienna|11 fans were killed in a crush before The Who rock concert in Cincinnati, Ohio |
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1979 | |
| 7. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
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1942 | |
| 8. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
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1958 | |
| 9. | 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 |
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1965 | |
| 10. | Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|in Rhodesia, Ian Smith declared de facto independence from the UK|the red and white maple leaf design replaced the Union Flag as the flag of Canada |
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1965 | |
| 11. | 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 | |
| 12. | The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after launch|a Berlin discotheque bombing gave rise to the U.S. bombing of Libya|Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey |
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1986 | |
| 13. | The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was officially opened|an earthquake in Haiti killed more than 316,000 people|the Deepwater Horizon oil spill discharged nearly 5 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico |
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2010 | |
| 14. | The Beatles performed at the Cavern Club for the first time|The Apartment won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade |
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1961 | |
| 15. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
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1974 | |
| 16. | 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 |
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1950 | |
| 17. | The FIFA World Cup was hosted in Germany|Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet|Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death and executed by hanging |
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2006 | |
| 18. | 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 |
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1984 | |
| 19. | The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas|the Iraq War began when U.S. led forces invaded Iraq|Concorde made its last commercial flight |
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2003 | |
| 20. | Diego Maradona|Jeremy Clarkson|Bono|Colin Firth|Jean-Claude Van Damme|Sean Penn |
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1960 | |
| 21. | UK Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigned and was succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson|French president Georges Pompidou died of cancer at 63|Patty Hearst was photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing a bank in San Francisco |
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1974 | |
| 22. | Patricia Arquette|Gary Coleman|Terry Crews|LL Cool J|Lisa Marie Presley|Naomi Watts |
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1968 | |
| 23. | 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 | |
| 24. | 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 |
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1960 | |
| 25. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 26. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
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1985 | |
| 27. | 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 | |
| 28. | Kirstie Alley|Lynda Carter|John Deacon|Mark Harmon|Cheryl Ladd|Stellan Skarsgård |
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1951 | |
| 29. | Eric Clapton|Goldie Hawn|Bob Marley|Steve Martin|Tom Selleck|Rod Stewart |
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1945 | |
| 30. | Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid |
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1975 | |
| 31. | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board|Russia were suspended from the G8 after formally annexing Crimea|the Royal Thai Army overthrew Thailand's caretaker government after its failure to resolve political unrest |
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2014 | |
| 32. | 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 |
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1969 | |
| 33. | 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 |
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1975 | |
| 34. | the Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Wikipedia was launched|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing |
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2001 | |
| 35. | 14 people were killed in Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday|11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Olympics in Munich|the Airbus A300 flew for the first time |
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1972 | |
| 36. | 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 | |
| 37. | 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 |
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1955 | |
| 38. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
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1936 | |
| 39. | 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 |
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1989 | |
| 40. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 41. | Cassius Clay was crowned heavyweight champion of the world after beating Sonny Liston|Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Robben Island prison|Walt Disney's Mary Poppins premièred worldwide |
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1964 | |
| 42. | What rock star conceded defeat to 10-year-old Nandi Bushell after a series of online drum battles this year, prompting the former to write a song in her honour? |
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Dave Grohl | |
| 43. | Bono|Jeremy Clarkson|Colin Firth|Diego Maradona|Sean Penn|Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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1960 | |
| 44. | 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 | |
| 45. | McDonald's opened restaurants in Russia and Mainland China for the first time|a U.S. District Court acquitted Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges|Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married |
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1990 | |
| 46. | Michael Jordan|Johnny Depp|Brad Pitt|José Mourinho|Quentin Tarantino|George Michael |
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1963 | |
| 47. | The Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction |
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1998 | |
| 48. | 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 | |
| 49. | 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 |
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1966 | |
| 50. | 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 |
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1956 | |
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