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| 1. | 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 |
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2007 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | Kate Bosworth|Henry Cavill|Jesse Eisenberg|Andrew Garfield|Mila Kunis|Amy Winehouse |
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1983 | |
| 4. | 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 | |
| 5. | David Cameron|Stefan Edberg|Samantha Fox|Mikhail Mishustin|Kiefer Sutherland|Robin Wright |
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1966 | |
| 6. | Phil Collins|Mark Hamill|Michael Keaton|Kurt Russell|Sting|Robin Williams |
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1951 | |
| 7. | Björn Borg|David Copperfield|Geena Davis|Andy Garcia|Theresa May|Joe Montana |
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1956 | |
| 8. | 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 | |
| 9. | 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|Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married |
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1990 | |
| 10. | Drake|Ellie Goulding|Lindsay Lohan|Rafael Nadal|Robert Pattinson|Oscar Pistorius |
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1986 | |
| 11. | 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 |
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1999 | |
| 12. | 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 | |
| 13. | Dan Aykroyd|David Byrne|John Goodman|Sharon Osbourne|Paul Reubens|Patrick Swayze |
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1952 | |
| 14. | 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 | |
| 15. | Robert Carlyle|Peter Jackson|Heather Locklear|Barack Obama|Dennis Rodman|Forest Whitaker |
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1961 | |
| 16. | London-based Laker Airways collapsed, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million|Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture|Yuri Andropov became leader of the Soviet Union |
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1982 | |
| 17. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
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1974 | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | Racing driver Jim Clark was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim|Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidential election|The Beatles released their self-titled album, popularly known as the White Album |
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1968 | |
| 20. | 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 | |
| 21. | Sheryl Crow|Emilio Estevez|Steve Irwin|Jon Bon Jovi|Bob Odenkirk|Axl Rose |
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1962 | |
| 22. | Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars at the 32nd Academy Awards|the Great Chilean Earthquake, at 9.5, was, and still is, the strongest ever recorded|the Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia in the final of football's first ever European Nations Cup |
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1960 | |
| 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. | UK Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigned and was succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson|French president Georges Pompidou died of cancer at 63|Patty Hearst was photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing a bank in San Francisco |
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1974 | |
| 25. | Fidel Castro arrived in Havana and was sworn in as Premier of Cuba|Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic|the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and was granted asylum in India |
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1959 | |
| 26. | Walt Disney's Peter Pan premiered around the world|U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier| Laos and Cambodia became independent from France |
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1953 | |
| 27. | Boy George|Eddie Murphy|George Clooney|Meg Ryan|Michael J. Fox|Princess Diana |
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1961 | |
| 28. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
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1974 | |
| 29. | Antonio Banderas|Gary Lineker|Julianne Moore|James Spader|Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)|Carol Vorderman |
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1960 | |
| 30. | 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 |
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1990 | |
| 31. | 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 | |
| 32. | the tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was officially opened|the Smolensk air disaster killed all 96 people on board, including President of Poland Lech Kaczyński|the FIFA World Cup was won by Spain in South Africa |
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2010 | |
| 33. | Steve Fossett broke the world record for the fastest non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer|the Airbus A380 made its maiden test flight in France|the 7/7 suicide bomb attacks killed 52 in London, England |
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2005 | |
| 34. | Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, presumed drowned, in the sea near Portsea, Victoria|the New Zealand dollar replaced the New Zealand pound|Beatles manager Brian Epstein was found dead in his locked bedroom |
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1967 | |
| 35. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
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1977 | |
| 36. | "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|Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela |
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1998 | |
| 37. | "Liberty by Lily Allen" is a product launched by the singer in October 2020, garnering many 5-star reviews. What is it? |
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Vibrator (Womanizer Liberty by Lily Allen) | |
| 38. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
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1957 | |
| 39. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
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1958 | |
| 40. | the Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service |
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1963 | |
| 41. | 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 | |
| 42. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
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1979 | |
| 43. | Steve Fossett became the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon|Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
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1995 | |
| 44. | Paula Abdul|Matthew Broderick|MC Hammer|Rosie O'Donnell|Phillip Schofield|Wesley Snipes |
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1962 | |
| 45. | 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 | |
| 46. | 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 | |
| 47. | 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 | |
| 48. | 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 | |
| 49. | Jessica Alba|Fernando Alonso|Chris Evans|Roger Federer|Tom Hiddleston|Paris Hilton |
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1981 | |
| 50. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|Israeli airborne commandos freed 103 hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport|racing champion Niki Lauda suffered serious burns in the German Grand Prix |
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1976 | |
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