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| 1. | David Duchovny|Hugh Grant|Nigella Lawson|Ayrton Senna|Tilda Swinton|Bradley Walsh |
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1960 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | 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 | |
| 4. | 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 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | 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 | |
| 7. | 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 | |
| 8. | Pat Cash|Steve Coogan|Elizabeth Hurley|Mark Labbett|Lennox Lewis|Sam Mendes |
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1965 | |
| 9. | 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 | |
| 10. | the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union|86 people were killed and more than 400 others injured in a truck attack in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations|the Chicago Cubs ended the longest championship drought in American sports history by winning the World Series for the first time since 1908 |
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2016 | |
| 11. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battle of the Sexes|Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, London |
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1973 | |
| 12. | Halle Berry|Patrick Dempsey|Janet Jackson|Gordon Ramsay|Adam Sandler|Mike Tyson |
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1966 | |
| 13. | The Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France|boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington|the Bosnian War began |
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1992 | |
| 14. | 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 | |
| 15. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 16. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
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1981 | |
| 17. | King Edward VIII succeeded, and abdicated, the throne of the United Kingdom|the Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany|the Crystal Palace in London was destroyed by fire |
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1936 | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 20. | David Bowie|Hillary Clinton|Stephen King|Arnold Schwarzenegger|O. J. Simpson|Alan Sugar |
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1947 | |
| 21. | George V became King of the United Kingdom|the Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet|African-American boxer Jack Johnson's defeat of white American James J. Jeffries sparked race riots across the United States |
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1910 | |
| 22. | Emily Blunt|Mo Farah|Chris Hemsworth|Pippa Middleton|Aaron Rodgers|Edward Snowden |
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1983 | |
| 23. | Whose seven year reign as coach of the England rugby union team ended on 6th December 2022? |
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Eddie Jones | |
| 24. | 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 |
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1980 | |
| 25. | The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed|the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century occurred over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean|actor David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room |
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2009 | |
| 26. | Bill Gates founded Microsoft|Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing|The Birmingham Six were wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment |
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1975 | |
| 27. | 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 |
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1962 | |
| 28. | Alesha Dixon|James Franco|Katherine Heigl|Rachel McAdams|Zoe Saldana|Usher |
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1978 | |
| 29. | Tony Blair|Pierce Brosnan|Hulk Hogan|Cyndi Lauper|John Malkovich|Victoria Wood |
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1953 | |
| 30. | The Beatles were famously rejected after auditioning for Decca Records|First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy took television viewers on a tour of the White House|Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premièred in UK theatres |
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1962 | |
| 31. | Bob Dylan|Alex Ferguson|Gorden Kaye|Ryan O'Neal|Bernie Sanders|Paul Simon |
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1941 | |
| 32. | 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 | |
| 33. | Jackie Chan|Prayut Chan-o-cha|Elvis Costello|Howard Stern|Kathleen Turner|Oprah Winfrey |
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1954 | |
| 34. | 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 |
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1961 | |
| 35. | 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 | |
| 36. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
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1952 | |
| 37. | Bill Clinton succeeded George H.W. Bush as President of the United States|James Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys in Liverpool, England|the Sunset Limited train crash in Alabama killed 47 |
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1993 | |
| 38. | Fleetwood Mac released their Grammy-winning album Rumours|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee|a 25 hour blackout in New York City resulted in city-wide disorder and looting |
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1977 | |
| 39. | U.S. President Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term|The English Patient won Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards|the United Kingdom handed sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China |
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1997 | |
| 40. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
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1963 | |
| 41. | 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 | |
| 42. | Halley's Comet became visible from the Earth|Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated|the Chernobyl disaster took place |
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1986 | |
| 43. | an IRA bomb killed 5 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton|the Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time|Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union |
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1984 | |
| 44. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battles of the Sexes |
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1973 | |
| 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 |
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1973 | |
| 46. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
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1974 | |
| 47. | Serial killer Ted Bundy was captured in Pensacola, Florida|the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany|Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days of papacy |
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1978 | |
| 48. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
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1936 | |
| 49. | Richard Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States|Midnight Cowboy was released in cinemas worldwide|a coup d'état put Gaddafi in control of Libya |
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1969 | |
| 50. | 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 | |
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