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In This Year

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1.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
2.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
 
1990
3.Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt began|a mine collapse in Coalbrook, South Africa killed 500 miners|the Summer Olympic Games were held in Rome
 
1960
4.Sarah Michelle Gellar|Thierry Henry|Emmanuel Macron|Floyd Mayweather, Jr.|Zachary Quinto|Kanye West
 
1977
5.U.S. Navy pilot John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner|Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappeared in Malaysia|the world's first automatic cash machine was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England
 
1967
6.Concorde made its first commercial flight|James Callaghan replaced Harold Wilson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|at least 46 were killed in the Thammasat University massacre in Bangkok
 
1976
7.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
 
1983
8.The Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada|a Thai military crack down on the "Red Shirts" protests in Bangkok ended with 91 dead and more than 2,100 injured|Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia
 
2010
9.The Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian Civil War and took control of the country|Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila|Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, was shot dead by the Provisional IRA
 
1975
10.Jeff Goldblum|David Hasselhoff|Imran Khan|Liam Neeson|Mr. T|Harvey Weinstein
 
1952
11.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
12.Bill Bailey|Sherilyn Fenn|Eddie Irvine|Vinnie Jones|Piers Morgan|Marti Pellow
 
1965
13.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
 
2009
14.the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan
 
1998
15.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
 
1991
16.John Candy|David Cassidy|Peter Gabriel|Ed Harris|Jay Leno|Julie Walters
 
1950

17.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
 
1973
18.Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India for the first time|The Sound of Music won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell as Doctor Who
 
1966
19.Bob Hawke was elected Prime Minister of Australia|Tokyo Disneyland opened|in London, £26m worth of gold bars were stolen in the Brinks Matt robbery
 
1983
20.2001: A Space Odyssey premièred around the world|the Summer Olympics took place in Mexico|Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
 
1968
21.Alesha Dixon|James Franco|Katherine Heigl|Rachel McAdams|Zoe Saldana|Usher
 
1978
22.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
 
1988
23.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
24.The Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran|an accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, caused a partial meltdown|The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
 
1979
25.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
 
2001
26.John Barnes|Phoebe Cates|Lisa Kudrow|Graham Norton|Conan O'Brien|Rob Schneider
 
1963
27.Abdullah II inherited the throne after King Hussein of Jordan died from cancer|London was hit with a 13-day bombing campaign by Neo-Nazi militant David Copeland|the Kosovo War came to an end after Yugoslav forces withdrew from Kosovo
 
1999
28.Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup to become president of Uganda|East Pakistan became Bangladesh after gaining independence from Pakistan|Jim Morrison of The Doors was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, France
 
1971
29.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
30.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
 
1993
31.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
 
1993
32.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
 
1987

33.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
 
1968
34.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
 
1990
35.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
 
1993
36.ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest singing Waterloo|Helmut Schmidt took over as Chancellor of West Germany after Willy Brandt resigned|Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in The Rumble in the Jungle
 
1974
37.Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid
 
1975
38.Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson
 
1968
39.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
40.Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank
 
1974
41.Richard Ayoade|Tom Brady|John Cena|Michael Fassbender|Ronan Keating|Liv Tyler
 
1977
42.Cilla Black|George Harrison|Julio Iglesias|Billie Jean King|John Major|Christopher Walken
 
1943
43.Barry Gibb|David Gilmour|Al Green|Liza Minnelli|Keith Moon|Dolly Parton
 
1946
44.the body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean|President George H. W. Bush ordered a cease-fire and declared victory over Iraq in the Gulf War|Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from Yugoslavia
 
1991
45.Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow
 
1972
46.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
 
1995
47.Michael Caine|Jayne Mansfield|David McCallum|Willie Nelson|Joan Rivers|Gene Wilder
 
1933
48.The Australian dollar replaced the Australian pound|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premièred worldwide|Luna 9 and Surveyor 1 achieved the first lunar soft landings
 
1966
49.The Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction
 
1998
50.The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois| Albert Einstein published both his special theory of relativity and the famous equation E = mc2|Norway dissolved its union with Sweden to become an independent country
 
1905


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