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| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | Robert Carlyle|Peter Jackson|Heather Locklear|Barack Obama|Dennis Rodman|Forest Whitaker |
| 3. | Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | 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 |
| 6. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
| 7. | Josh Duhamel|Geri Halliwell|Alyssa Milano|Thandiwe Newton|Vanessa Paradis|Karl Urban |
| 8. | Adele|Rupert Grint|Conor McGregor|Haley Joel Osment|Rihanna|Jack Whitehall |
| 9. | The Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction |
| 10. | Sandra Bullock|Courteney Cox|Nicolas Cage|Rob Lowe|Keanu Reeves|Russell Crowe |
| 11. | David Bowie|Hillary Clinton|Stephen King|Arnold Schwarzenegger|O. J. Simpson|Alan Sugar |
| 12. | "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 |
| 13. | In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, to the nearest million, how many million more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump? |
| 14. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
| 15. | the FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany|Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record|Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country |
| 16. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
| 17. | 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 |
| 18. | Ireland became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote|Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born|Volkswagen was publicly accused of the worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests |
| 19. | A van bomb below the World Trade Center killed 6 people|the Grand National was declared void after a series of false starts|85 people were killed during the Waco siege in Texas |
| 20. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
| 21. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
| 22. | The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado resulted in 15 deaths|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released worldwide|the modern Scottish Parliament was opened |
| 23. | Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company|Nadia Comăneci scored seven perfect 10s at the Summer Olympics|Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars |
| 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. | Ben Affleck|Cameron Diaz|Idris Elba|Eminem|Dwayne Johnson|Zinedine Zidane |
| 26. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|I Want to Hold Your Hand became The Beatles' first #1 single in the U.S.A.|Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married for the first time |
| 27. | Fred and Rosemary West were arrested in England after police excavated human bones in their back garden|between 500,000 and 1 million people were slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide|Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix |
| 28. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
| 29. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
| 30. | Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states|Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash|Sleeping Beauty was released in cinemas around the world |
| 31. | Nelson Mandela was released from prison|Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Gulf War began with Iraq invading Kuwait |
| 32. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
| 33. | Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from Yugoslavia|the body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean|Boris Yeltsin became 1st President of the Russian Federation |
| 34. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
| 35. | 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 |
| 36. | George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the United States|the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, ending a 9 year long war|Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a US$3m bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie |
| 37. | Antonio Banderas|Gary Lineker|Julianne Moore|James Spader|Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)|Carol Vorderman |
| 38. | 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 |
| 39. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
| 40. | 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 |
| 41. | Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record|the FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany|Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country |
| 42. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premiered around the world|John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|Cleopatra premiered around the world |
| 43. | 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 |
| 44. | 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 |
| 45. | 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? |
| 46. | Rowan Atkinson|Willem Dafoe|Steve Jobs|Olga Korbut|Bill Paxton|Angus Young |
| 47. | General John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were found guilty and sentenced over the Watergate scandal|Peter Gabriel left Genesis, replaced on lead vocals by drummer Phil Collins|The Rocky Horror Picture Show premièred in cinemas worldwide |
| 48. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 49. | U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.|the first Mario game, Donkey Kong, was released| Muhammad Ali was beaten in his last-ever fight by Trevor Berbick |
| 50. | 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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