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| 1. | Prime Minister of Thailand Chatichai Choonhavan was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état|the Gulf War ended with Operation Desert Storm and the Liberation of Kuwait|the Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting |
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1991 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
| 4. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 5. | Nadia Comăneci|Billy Ray Cyrus|Laurence Fishburne|Ricky Gervais|Wayne Gretzky|Woody Harrelson |
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1961 | |
| 6. | The Summer Olympics were held in Moscow|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released|Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election |
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1980 | |
| 7. | 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 |
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1975 | |
| 8. | Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook|the Summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece|Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world at the time, officially opened |
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2004 | |
| 9. | 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 |
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1974 | |
| 10. | 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 | |
| 11. | What retired footballer spent 32 days in jail in March/April after allegedly entering Paraguay with a false passport? |
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Ronaldinho | |
| 12. | 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 | |
| 13. | 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 | |
| 14. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
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1979 | |
| 15. | The Aswan High Dam officially opened in Egypt|Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gained independence from the United Kingdom|an IRA bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London |
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1971 | |
| 16. | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board|Russia were suspended from the G8 after formally annexing Crimea|the Royal Thai Army overthrew Thailand's caretaker government after its failure to resolve political unrest |
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2014 | |
| 17. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
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1939 | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | the Post Office Tower opened in London|the classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuted in the United Kingdom|200 Alabama State Troopers attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama in what was to become known as Bloody Sunday |
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1965 | |
| 20. | 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 |
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1965 | |
| 21. | Emma Bunton|Emily Deschanel|Colin Farrell|Isla Fisher|Naomie Harris|Michael McIntyre |
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1976 | |
| 22. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
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1965 | |
| 23. | The Sound of Music premièred worldwide|racing driver Jim Clark won the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula One world driving championship in the same year|Singapore gained independence by being expelled from Malaysia |
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1965 | |
| 24. | The Godfather was released in cinemas worldwide|Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka|the Watergate Scandal began with five White House operatives being arrested for burglary |
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1972 | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | 125 million people watched the final episode of M*A*S*H, the most watched television broadcast in American history|Michael Jackson's Thriller video was aired on MTV for the first time|Return of the Jedi opened in theatres worldwide |
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1983 | |
| 27. | In a July 2020 Fox News interview, what 5 words did Donald Trump boast he'd successfully repeated in a cognitive test he'd recently taken? |
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Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV | |
| 28. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
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1957 | |
| 29. | U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon|The Sears Tower in Chicago was finished, becoming the world's tallest building |
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1973 | |
| 30. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 31. | Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states|Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash|Sleeping Beauty was released in cinemas around the world |
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1959 | |
| 32. | Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|$18.9 million was stolen from the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California, the largest cash robbery in U.S. history|the first computer to win a match against a World Chess Champion, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov |
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1997 | |
| 33. | Björn Borg|David Copperfield|Geena Davis|Andy Garcia|Theresa May|Joe Montana |
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1956 | |
| 34. | 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 | |
| 35. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
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1935 | |
| 36. | the comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth|the Bank of Thailand floated the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis|Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing |
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1997 | |
| 37. | Chester Bennington|Cat Deeley|Cillian Murphy|Ross Noble|Ryan Reynolds|Alicia Silverstone |
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1976 | |
| 38. | 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 | |
| 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. | Paula Abdul|Matthew Broderick|MC Hammer|Rosie O'Donnell|Phillip Schofield|Wesley Snipes |
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1962 | |
| 41. | the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan |
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1998 | |
| 42. | Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid |
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1975 | |
| 43. | the Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Wikipedia was launched|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing |
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2001 | |
| 44. | The Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada|The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards|George H. W. Bush was elected President of the United States |
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1988 | |
| 45. | 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 |
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1977 | |
| 46. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
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1977 | |
| 47. | Barry Gibb|David Gilmour|Al Green|Liza Minnelli|Keith Moon|Dolly Parton |
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1946 | |
| 48. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
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1940 | |
| 49. | Nelson Mandela was released from prison|Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Gulf War began with Iraq invading Kuwait |
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1990 | |
| 50. | David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago was released|The Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction became their first number-one single in America|Ferdinand Marcos became President of the Philippines |
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1965 | |
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