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| 1. | Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood |
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1938 | |
| 2. | Belinda Carlisle|Michael Jackson|Joan Jett|Simon Le Bon|Madonna|Gary Numan |
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1958 | |
| 3. | Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid |
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1975 | |
| 4. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow |
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1972 | |
| 7. | 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 | |
| 8. | IRA member Bobby Sands died in prison after a 66 day hunger-strike|Bob Marley died aged 36 from cancer|MTV (Music Television) was launched on cable TV in the United States |
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1981 | |
| 9. | Rain Man and Who Framed Roger Rabbit were the highest grossing films|a demonstration flight of the new Airbus A320 crashed into the tops of trees beyond the runway at Habsheim, France|the Iran–Iraq War finally came to an end |
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1988 | |
| 10. | 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 | |
| 11. | Eric Bana|Ricki Lake|Molly Ringwald|Guy Ritchie|Sam Rockwell|Shaggy |
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1968 | |
| 12. | Alice Cooper|Olivia Newton-John|Ted Nugent|Robert Plant|Cat Stevens|Steven Tyler |
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1948 | |
| 13. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
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1940 | |
| 14. | Kate Bosworth|Henry Cavill|Jesse Eisenberg|Andrew Garfield|Mila Kunis|Amy Winehouse |
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1983 | |
| 15. | U2 released their studio album The Joshua Tree|The Simpsons cartoon first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show|the last remaining prisoner at Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess, was found dead in his cell |
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1987 | |
| 16. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 17. | James Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys in Liverpool, England|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia|tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed during a match in Hamburg |
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1993 | |
| 18. | Jessica Biel|Kirsten Dunst|Billie Piper|Seth Rogan|Yvonne Strahovski|Prince William |
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1982 | |
| 19. | 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 | |
| 20. | The Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon |
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1972 | |
| 21. | John Candy|David Cassidy|Peter Gabriel|Ed Harris|Jay Leno|Julie Walters |
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1950 | |
| 22. | A suicide bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people|Sally Ride became the first American woman in space|Neil Kinnock was elected leader of the British Labour Party |
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1983 | |
| 23. | Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom|A Streetcar Named Desire won four Oscars|the United States successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands |
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1952 | |
| 24. | 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 | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | Drake|Ellie Goulding|Lindsay Lohan|Rafael Nadal|Robert Pattinson|Oscar Pistorius |
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1986 | |
| 27. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
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1968 | |
| 28. | a massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia started the Kosovo War|the FIFA World Cup was held in France|Google was founded in California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
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1998 | |
| 29. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
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1990 | |
| 30. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
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1936 | |
| 31. | 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 | |
| 32. | The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground off Alaska|the Hillsborough disaster claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool supporters|Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity |
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1989 | |
| 33. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
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1957 | |
| 34. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|I Want to Hold Your Hand became The Beatles' first #1 single in the U.S.A.|Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married for the first time |
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1964 | |
| 35. | In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, to the nearest million, how many million more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump? |
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7 (81,281,502 vs 74,222,593) | |
| 36. | The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station|Argentina won the FIFA World Cup|Out of Africa won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture |
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1986 | |
| 37. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
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1956 | |
| 38. | 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 | |
| 39. | 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 | |
| 40. | Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as President of the United States|Joseph Stalin died after suffering a stroke|the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey |
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1953 | |
| 41. | Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela|"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 |
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1998 | |
| 42. | The Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War|the World Trade Center was officially opened in New York City|Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong |
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1973 | |
| 43. | Lindsey Buckingham|Richard Gere|Niki Lauda|Phil Lynott|Lionel Richie|Sissy Spacek |
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1949 | |
| 44. | Tony Blair|Pierce Brosnan|Hulk Hogan|Cyndi Lauper|John Malkovich|Victoria Wood |
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1953 | |
| 45. | The "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia|an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia |
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1993 | |
| 46. | Bono|Jeremy Clarkson|Colin Firth|Diego Maradona|Sean Penn|Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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1960 | |
| 47. | Ben Affleck|Cameron Diaz|Idris Elba|Eminem|Dwayne Johnson|Zinedine Zidane |
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1972 | |
| 48. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 49. | The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, killing 180|Irish rock band U2 released their album The Joshua Tree|former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment |
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1987 | |
| 50. | 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 | |
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