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| 1. | Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Golden Jubilee|the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah|an Su-27 fighter crashed in Ukraine, killing 77, the deadliest air show accident in history |
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2002 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | 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 |
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1981 | |
| 4. | The TV miniseries Roots first aired around the world|the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747|Elvis Presley was found dead at his home in Graceland |
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1977 | |
| 5. | Jeff Bezos|Don Cheadle|Chris Cornell|Prince Edward|Earl of Wessex|Bridget Fonda|David Spade |
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1964 | |
| 6. | The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois| Albert Einstein published both his special theory of relativity and the famous equation E = mc2|Norway dissolved its union with Sweden to become an independent country |
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1905 | |
| 7. | The Green Bay Packers won the first ever Super Bowl|Celtic became the first non-Latin football club to win the European Cup|The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
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1967 | |
| 8. | Fidel Castro arrived in Havana and was sworn in as Premier of Cuba|Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic|the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and was granted asylum in India |
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1959 | |
| 9. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
| 10. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
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1981 | |
| 11. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
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1976 | |
| 12. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
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1971 | |
| 13. | Planet of the Apes was released in cinemas around the world|Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated|Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup |
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1968 | |
| 14. | Cleopatra premièred around the world|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair |
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1963 | |
| 15. | 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 |
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2011 | |
| 16. | Bono|Jeremy Clarkson|Colin Firth|Diego Maradona|Sean Penn|Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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1960 | |
| 17. | 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 | |
| 18. | London-based Laker Airways collapsed, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million|Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture|Yuri Andropov became leader of the Soviet Union |
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1982 | |
| 19. | Jessica Alba|Fernando Alonso|Chris Evans|Roger Federer|Tom Hiddleston|Paris Hilton |
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1981 | |
| 20. | 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 | |
| 21. | 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 |
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2008 | |
| 22. | 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? |
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Barnard Castle | |
| 23. | 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 |
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1982 | |
| 24. | Terms of Endearment won Best Picture at the 56th Academy Awards|WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead, leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London|Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated |
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1984 | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale|Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest|the Korean Armistice Agreement halted the Korean War |
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1953 | |
| 27. | Jackie Chan|Prayut Chan-o-cha|Elvis Costello|Howard Stern|Kathleen Turner|Oprah Winfrey |
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1954 | |
| 28. | Harald V became King of Norway|the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was published by Sega|Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury died from pneumonia induced by AIDS |
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1991 | |
| 29. | Western Allies began the Berlin Airlift|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|Korea was divided into North and South |
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1948 | |
| 30. | 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 | |
| 31. | 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 | |
| 32. | Chester Bennington|Cat Deeley|Cillian Murphy|Ross Noble|Ryan Reynolds|Alicia Silverstone |
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1976 | |
| 33. | 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 |
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1976 | |
| 34. | Tim Allen|Kim Basinger|Michael Bolton|Griff Rhys Jones|Rick Moranis|Leon Spinks |
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1953 | |
| 35. | 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 |
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2006 | |
| 36. | Mike Tyson was jailed for raping Desiree Washington|the English FA Premier League was officially founded|Bill Clinton won his first presidential election |
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1992 | |
| 37. | the first Sony PlayStation was released|Steve Fossett became the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon|Jacques Chirac was elected president of France |
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1995 | |
| 38. | 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 |
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1965 | |
| 39. | John Howard was sworn in for the first time as Prime Minister of Australia|Braveheart won Best Picture at the 68th Academy Awards|an IRA bomb injured 212 in Manchester, England |
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1996 | |
| 40. | Steve Fossett became the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon|Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
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1995 | |
| 41. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premièred around the world| John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|The Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England |
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1963 | |
| 42. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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1969 | |
| 43. | Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, presumed drowned, in the sea near Portsea, Victoria|the New Zealand dollar replaced the New Zealand pound|Beatles manager Brian Epstein was found dead in his locked bedroom |
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1967 | |
| 44. | Burma gained independence from the United Kingdom|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|the first post-war Summer Olympics were held in London |
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1948 | |
| 45. | 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 | |
| 46. | Part of her Heretic range, what actress launched scented candles labelled "This Smells Like My Vagina" and "This Smells Like My Orgasm" in 2020? |
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Gwyneth Paltrow | |
| 47. | President Bill Clinton was acquitted at the conclusion of impeachment proceedings in the U.S. Senate|British journalist Jill Dando was murdered outside her home in West London|David Beckham and Victoria Adams married in Ireland |
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1999 | |
| 48. | Gemma Arterton|Usain Bolt|Megan Fox|Lady Gaga|Amber Heard|Shia LaBeouf |
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1986 | |
| 49. | Sheryl Crow|Emilio Estevez|Steve Irwin|Jon Bon Jovi|Bob Odenkirk|Axl Rose |
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1962 | |
| 50. | Tom Cruise|Jim Carrey|Steve Carell|Demi Moore|Ralph Fiennes|Jodie Foster |
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1962 | |
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