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| 1. | 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 | |
| 2. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
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1979 | |
| 3. | The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication was celebrated in New York Harbor|British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25 Motorway| and Mike Tyson won his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas |
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1986 | |
| 4. | Ban Ki-moon replaced Kofi Annan as United Nations Secretary-General|a South Korean expat student shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, before committing suicide|One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashed in Phuket, killing 89 passengers and crew |
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2007 | |
| 5. | George Foreman|Don Johnson|Jessica Lange|Bill Nighy|Meryl Streep|Roger Taylor (Queen) |
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1949 | |
| 6. | the BBC sitcom Dad's Army was broadcast for the first time in the UK|Rosemary's Baby premiered around the world|a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashed in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs |
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1968 | |
| 7. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
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1985 | |
| 8. | Princess Anne|Karen Carpenter|Huey Lewis|William H. Macy|Bill Murray|Steve Wozniak |
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1950 | |
| 9. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
| 10. | An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Suphanburi, Thailand, killing all 223 on board|Mike Tyson was charged with the rape of Desiree Washington |
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1991 | |
| 11. | Captained by Richard Phillips, the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama was captured by Somali pirates|an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus ("swine flu") was declared a global pandemic|Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 |
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2009 | |
| 12. | 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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2001 | |
| 13. | the Aswan High Dam officially opened in Egypt|The United Kingdom and Ireland both switched to decimal currency|Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gained independence from the United Kingdom |
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1971 | |
| 14. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
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1968 | |
| 15. | Tyra Banks|Kate Beckinsale|Ryan Giggs|Monica Lewinsky|Paul Walker|Pharrell Williams |
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1973 | |
| 16. | 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 | |
| 17. | Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
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1995 | |
| 18. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
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1974 | |
| 19. | George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton as President of the United States|the Russian Mir space station re-entered the atmosphere to end its 15 year service in the Pacific Ocean|English politician and author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to 4 years in prison |
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2001 | |
| 20. | On the roof of Apple Records, London, The Beatles gave their last public performance|the Boeing 747 and Concorde both flew for the first time|Willy Brandt became Chancellor of West Germany |
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1969 | |
| 21. | English humanitarian Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut|New Zealand beat France 29-9 in the first ever Rugby World Cup Final|Michael Jackson released his hit album Bad |
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1987 | |
| 22. | a bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London|"D. B. Cooper" parachuted from a plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, never to be seen again|Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first to ride in a Lunar Roving Vehicle |
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1971 | |
| 23. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
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1956 | |
| 24. | Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, went missing in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally|the DeLorean Car factory in Belfast went into receivership|Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of Germany |
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1982 | |
| 25. | U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles|English politician Enoch Powell delivered his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech|the Winter Olympics were held in Grenoble, France |
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1968 | |
| 26. | 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 | |
| 27. | Diego Maradona|Jeremy Clarkson|Bono|Colin Firth|Jean-Claude Van Damme|Sean Penn |
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1960 | |
| 28. | Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union|at a football match in England, the Bradford City stadium fire killed 56|Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raised over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia |
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1985 | |
| 29. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
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1981 | |
| 30. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
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1971 | |
| 31. | 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 | |
| 32. | Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married|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 |
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1990 | |
| 33. | Jack Black|Ice Cube|Dave Grohl|Ellen Pompeo|Christian Slater|Renée Zellweger |
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1969 | |
| 34. | 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 | |
| 35. | Emily Blunt|Mo Farah|Chris Hemsworth|Pippa Middleton|Aaron Rodgers|Edward Snowden |
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1983 | |
| 36. | 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 |
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1985 | |
| 37. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 38. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 39. | 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 | |
| 40. | 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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1997 | |
| 41. | Robert Downey Jr.|Sarah Jessica Parker|J.K. Rowling|Charlie Sheen|Brooke Shields|Ben Stiller|Shania Twain |
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1965 | |
| 42. | Forrest Gump won Best Picture at the 67th Academy Awards|a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 13 and injured 5,510|the Dayton Peace Agreement brought an end to the Bosnian War |
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1995 | |
| 43. | Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow |
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1972 | |
| 44. | Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|The Beatles performed at Shea Stadium in New York, the first ever stadium rock concert|in Rhodesia, Ian Smith declared de facto independence from the UK |
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1965 | |
| 45. | Manuel Noriega surrendered to American forces in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Panama|in the face of nationwide riots, the Poll Tax was introduced in England and Wales|Boris Yeltsin became the first ever elected Soviet president |
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1990 | |
| 46. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 47. | Peter Andre|Neve Campbell|Neil Patrick Harris|Jim Parsons|Ole Gunnar Solskjær|Ichiro Suzuki |
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1973 | |
| 48. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
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1935 | |
| 49. | Brigitte Bardot|Leonard Cohen|Judi Dench|George Segal|Maggie Smith|Frankie Valli |
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1934 | |
| 50. | Lindsey Buckingham|Richard Gere|Niki Lauda|Phil Lynott|Lionel Richie|Sissy Spacek |
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1949 | |
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