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In This Year

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1.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
 
1977
2.John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth|West Side Story won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Beatles drummer Pete Best was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr
 
1962
3.Fred and Rosemary West were arrested in England after police excavated human bones in their back garden|between 500,000 and 1 million people were slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide|Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix
 
1994
4.Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland
 
1935
5.David Blaine|Heidi Klum|Seth MacFarlane|Sean Paul|Monica Seles|Kristen Wiig
 
1973
6.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
 
1960
7.John Candy|David Cassidy|Peter Gabriel|Ed Harris|Jay Leno|Julie Walters
 
1950
8.Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union|a fire on the Scandinavian Star, a ferry en route from Norway to Denmark, killed 158|East Germany and West Germany reunited into a single Germany
 
1990
9.John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States|a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium wiped out the entire United States figure skating team|construction of the Berlin Wall began
 
1961
10.Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T
 
1958
11.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
 
2005
12.Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|seatbelt use for drivers and front-seat passengers became mandatory in the United Kingdom|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada
 
1983
13.Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill
 
1957
14.The Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York|the arcade game Pac-Man was released by Namco|the album Back in Black was released by Australian band AC/DC
 
1980
15.Jacinda Ardern|Eva Green|Jake Gyllenhall|Christina Ricci|Jason Segel|Rebel Wilson
 
1980
16.Tim Allen|Kim Basinger|Michael Bolton|Griff Rhys Jones|Rick Moranis|Leon Spinks
 
1953

17.Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment|a bomb explosion at Northwestern University, Illinois marked the Unabomber's first attack|Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, was released worldwide
 
1978
18.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
 
1992
19.Racing driver Jim Clark was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim|Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidential election|The Beatles released their self-titled album, popularly known as the White Album
 
1968
20.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
 
1972
21.Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q
 
1979
22.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
 
1963
23."Liberty by Lily Allen" is a product launched by the singer in October 2020, garnering many 5-star reviews. What is it?
 
Vibrator (Womanizer Liberty by Lily Allen)
24.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
 
1963
25.Windows XP was launched by Microsoft|George Harrison died at the age of 58|a Paris–Miami flight was diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid attempted to set light to his explosive-filled shoe
 
2001
26.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
 
1971
27.the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea|Australian soap opera Home and Away was aired for the first time|Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people
 
1988
28.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company|Nadia Comăneci scored seven perfect 10s at the Summer Olympics|Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars
 
1976
29.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|David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 
2010
30."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|Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela
 
1998
31.Jason Bateman|Cate Blanchett|Jennifer Lopez|Marilyn Manson|Matthew McConaughey|Michael Sheen
 
1969
32.Rowan Atkinson|Willem Dafoe|Steve Jobs|Olga Korbut|Bill Paxton|Angus Young
 
1955

33.The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale in the USA|British child Madeleine McCann disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal|the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, became the fastest selling book in history
 
2007
34.Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom died aged 81|U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York|Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, a Morse code letter 'S' sent from England to Newfoundland
 
1901
35.Czechoslovakia beat West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win the UEFA European Football Championship|China's Chairman Mao Zedong died of a heart attack|Jimmy Carter defeated the incumbent Gerald Ford in the U.S. presidential election
 
1976
36.the first episode of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses was aired|François Mitterrand became the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic|6,255 people crossed the finish line at the first London Marathon
 
1981
37.Michael Caine|Jayne Mansfield|David McCallum|Willie Nelson|Joan Rivers|Gene Wilder
 
1933
38.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
 
1965
39.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
 
1967
40.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
 
1986
41.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
 
2009
42.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
 
1960
43.Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond
 
1957
44.Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash
 
1965
45.Part of her Heretic range, what actress launched scented candles labelled "This Smells Like My Vagina" and "This Smells Like My Orgasm" in 2020?
 
Gwyneth Paltrow
46.Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow
 
1972
47.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
 
1997
48.In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, to the nearest million, how many million more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump?
 
7 (81,281,502 vs 74,222,593)
49.The World Wide Web was opened up as a free public service|the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union|Schindler's List, The Pelican Brief, and Philadelphia all premièred around the world
 
1993
50.Kobe Bryant|James Corden|Ashton Kutcher|Manny Pacquiao|Katie Price|Nicole Scherzinger
 
1978


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