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| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | 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 |
| 3. | the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan |
| 4. | David Blaine|Heidi Klum|Seth MacFarlane|Sean Paul|Monica Seles|Kristen Wiig |
| 5. | 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? |
| 6. | Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France|John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted their Bed-In at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec| and Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon |
| 7. | 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 |
| 8. | Winston Churchill was re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, a nuclear bomb was detonated at the Nevada Test Site for the first time|Alice in Wonderland, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and The African Queen all premiered worldwide |
| 9. | 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 |
| 10. | Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid |
| 11. | 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 |
| 12. | The War in Darfur began|an arsonist destroyed a train in Daegu, South Korea, killing more than 190|the SARS virus was declared to be contained by the World Health Organization |
| 13. | Boy George|Eddie Murphy|George Clooney|Meg Ryan|Michael J. Fox|Princess Diana |
| 14. | Carmen Electra|Liam Gallagher|Jennifer Garner|Jude Law|Shaquille O'Neal|Gwyneth Paltrow |
| 15. | What retired footballer spent 32 days in jail in March/April after allegedly entering Paraguay with a false passport? |
| 16. | The Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time|Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union|an IRA bomb killed 5 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton |
| 17. | Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond |
| 18. | Posing as Canadians, six U.S. diplomats escaped from Tehran on a flight to Zürich|Joy Division singer/songwriter Ian Curtis was found hanged|the trade union Solidarność ("Solidarity") was established in Gdańsk, Poland |
| 19. | The Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | Aloha Flight 243 landed safely in Maui despite losing a large portion of its upper fuselage in mid-flight|165 were killed in the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea|vocalist Roy Orbison died of a heart attack |
| 22. | The Beatles performed at the Cavern Club for the first time|The Apartment won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade |
| 23. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
| 24. | 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 |
| 25. | 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 |
| 26. | Eric Bana|Ricki Lake|Molly Ringwald|Guy Ritchie|Sam Rockwell|Shaggy |
| 27. | Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer married at St Paul's Cathedral|riots in Toxteth (Liverpool), Handsworth (Birmingham), Moss Side (Manchester), and Chapeltown (Leeds) all took place in July|serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 28. | 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 |
| 29. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
| 30. | Three astronauts were killed when Apollo 1 caught fire during testing|Aretha Franklin released her signature song, Respect|riots in Detroit resulted in 43 dead and 1,189 injured |
| 31. | The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing|the first iPod was introduced by Apple |
| 32. | 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 |
| 33. | Rob Gronkowski|Anthony Joshua|Daniel Radcliffe|Daniel Ricciardo|Taylor Swift|Anton Yelchin |
| 34. | English humanitarian Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut|New Zealand beat France 29-9 in the first ever Rugby World Cup Final|Michael Jackson released his hit album Bad |
| 35. | 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 |
| 36. | Paula Abdul|Matthew Broderick|MC Hammer|Rosie O'Donnell|Phillip Schofield|Wesley Snipes |
| 37. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
| 38. | Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile|William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was first published|the first Burger King opened in Miami, Florida |
| 39. | Sir Winston Churchill died, aged 90|My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins won 13 Academy Awards between them|Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested |
| 40. | 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 |
| 41. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
| 42. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
| 43. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
| 44. | Richard Ayoade|Tom Brady|John Cena|Michael Fassbender|Ronan Keating|Liv Tyler |
| 45. | 66 were killed in a stairway crush at a Rangers Celtic match in Glasgow, Scotland|The Ed Sullivan Show aired its final episode|a terrorist bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London |
| 46. | Tom Arnold|Rosanna Arquette|Pete Burns|John McEnroe|Mike Pence|Tracey Ullman |
| 47. | Alec Baldwin|Peter Capaldi|Ellen DeGeneres|Gary Oldman|Michelle Pfeiffer|Prince |
| 48. | Tom Cruise|Jim Carrey|Steve Carell|Demi Moore|Ralph Fiennes|Jodie Foster |
| 49. | 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 |
| 50. | 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 |
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