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| 1. | Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft for 12 minutes, became the first person to walk in space|Muhammad Ali's "Phantom Punch" knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch |
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1965 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | The Beatles released their début album Please Please Me|Lawrence of Arabia won Best Picture at the 35th Academy Awards|Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial |
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1963 | |
| 4. | John Lennon said that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now"|Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones was released|actor Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California |
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1966 | |
| 5. | A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform A spilt oil onto beaches in Santa Barbara, California|the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo was first published|John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar |
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1969 | |
| 6. | 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 | |
| 7. | Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces ended the Kosovo War|Abdullah II inherited the throne after King Hussein of Jordan died from cancer |
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1999 | |
| 8. | 16 infant school pupils and a teacher were killed in the Dunblane massacre in Scotland|"Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin|35 were killed in Tasmania in the Port Arthur massacre |
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1996 | |
| 9. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
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1963 | |
| 10. | 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 | |
| 11. | Alice Cooper|Olivia Newton-John|Ted Nugent|Robert Plant|Cat Stevens|Steven Tyler |
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1948 | |
| 12. | Northern Rock became the first bank in Europe to be taken into state control due to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis|Dmitry Medvedev replaced Vladimir Putin as President of Russia|Michael Phelps won a record eight Gold Medals at a single Olympics |
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2008 | |
| 13. | Christina Aguilera|Zooey Deschanel|Russell Howard|Chris Pine|Jessica Simpson|Channing Tatum |
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1980 | |
| 14. | The Kobe earthquake in Japan killed 6,434 people|the Oklahoma City bombing claimed the lives of 168|O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of double murder in his criminal trial |
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1995 | |
| 15. | 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 | |
| 16. | Chariots of Fire won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture|the Commodore 64 home computer was released|Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. and fell into the Potomac River |
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1982 | |
| 17. | Mike Tyson made his professional début in New York|Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French agents|the wreck of the Titanic was finally located |
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1985 | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | Pan Am began the first commercial 747 service, flying from New York to London|Black Sabbath released their self-named début album|the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed |
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1970 | |
| 20. | 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 |
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2005 | |
| 21. | 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 | |
| 22. | Brigitte Bardot|Leonard Cohen|Judi Dench|George Segal|Maggie Smith|Frankie Valli |
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1934 | |
| 23. | Barry Gibb|David Gilmour|Al Green|Liza Minnelli|Keith Moon|Dolly Parton |
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1946 | |
| 24. | 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 | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | Jackie Chan|Prayut Chan-o-cha|Elvis Costello|Howard Stern|Kathleen Turner|Oprah Winfrey |
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1954 | |
| 27. | 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 | |
| 28. | 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 | |
| 29. | 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 | |
| 30. | 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 | |
| 31. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
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1942 | |
| 32. | Barack Obama was elected President of the United States|Kosovo formally declared independence from Serbia|the Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, China |
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2008 | |
| 33. | 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 | |
| 34. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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1969 | |
| 35. | 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 |
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1960 | |
| 36. | 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 | |
| 37. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
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1971 | |
| 38. | President George H. W. Bush ordered a cease-fire and declared victory over Iraq in the Gulf War|Harald V became King of Norway|the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was published by Sega |
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1991 | |
| 39. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
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1977 | |
| 40. | film director Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France, after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl|Superman, starring Christopher Reeve, was released worldwide|Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights topped the charts in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand |
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1978 | |
| 41. | 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 |
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1988 | |
| 42. | Seven Manchester United players were among the 21 killed in the Munich air disaster|Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army as a Private|The Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Academy awards, including Best Picture |
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1958 | |
| 43. | the Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|16 people survived an air crash in the Andes mountains by resorting to cannibalism|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon |
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1972 | |
| 44. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
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1979 | |
| 45. | 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 | |
| 46. | the Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy|Thaksin Shinawatra was removed from power in a military coup d'état in Thailand|Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffered a severe stroke and cerebral haemorrhage |
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2006 | |
| 47. | the world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge, was opened in France|Chechen terrorists took more than 1,000 hostage in the Beslan school hostage crisis|SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded, manned craft to achieve spaceflight |
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| 48. | 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 | |
| 49. | 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 | |
| 50. | the Winter Olympics were held in Lillehammer, Norway|Schindler's List won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director|the car ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people |
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1994 | |
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