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| 1. | George W. Bush began his second term as President of the United States|Pope John Paul II died|the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles |
| 2. | 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 |
| 3. | Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall|New Zealand won the first ever Rugby World Cup|The King's Cross fire on the London Underground killed 31 |
| 4. | Penélope Cruz|Jimmy Fallon|Seth Green|Eva Mendes|Paul Scholes|Robbie Williams |
| 5. | 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 |
| 6. | 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 |
| 7. | Jason Bateman|Cate Blanchett|Jennifer Lopez|Marilyn Manson|Matthew McConaughey|Michael Sheen |
| 8. | Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
| 9. | 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 |
| 10. | The World Wide Web was opened up as a free public service|the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union|Schindler's List, The Pelican Brief, and Philadelphia all premièred around the world |
| 11. | 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 |
| 12. | John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States|a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium wiped out the entire United States figure skating team|construction of the Berlin Wall began |
| 13. | Naomi Campbell|Mariah Carey|Tina Fey|Melissa McCarthy|Uma Thurman|Melania Trump |
| 14. | The Summer of Love began in the U.S. and spread around the world|the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles|Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu married in Las Vegas |
| 15. | 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 |
| 16. | 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 |
| 17. | Boris Yeltsin became the first elected president of Russia|an amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 independent states |
| 18. | Diego Maradona|Jeremy Clarkson|Bono|Colin Firth|Jean-Claude Van Damme|Sean Penn |
| 19. | Pamela Anderson|Kurt Cobain|Vin Diesel|Nicole Kidman|Julia Roberts|Jason Statham |
| 20. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | Rob Gronkowski|Anthony Joshua|Daniel Radcliffe|Daniel Ricciardo|Taylor Swift|Anton Yelchin |
| 23. | 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 |
| 24. | Edward Heath became Prime Minister of the UK|Jimi Hendrix died in London of drug related complications|Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
| 25. | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|seatbelt use for drivers and front-seat passengers became mandatory in the United Kingdom|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada |
| 26. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
| 27. | 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 |
| 28. | Andre Agassi|Jennifer Connelly|Richard Osman|Simon Pegg|Vince Vaughn|Rachel Weisz |
| 29. | Kate Bosworth|Henry Cavill|Jesse Eisenberg|Andrew Garfield|Mila Kunis|Amy Winehouse |
| 30. | Gaining notoriety in a 2020 documentary TV series, by what name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage better known? |
| 31. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
| 32. | 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 |
| 33. | John Carpenter|Prince Charles|Al Gore|George R R Martin|Teller|Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| 34. | A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform A spilt oil onto beaches in Santa Barbara, California|the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo was first published|John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar |
| 35. | 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 |
| 36. | Jeff Bezos|Don Cheadle|Chris Cornell|Prince Edward|Earl of Wessex|Bridget Fonda|David Spade |
| 37. | 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 |
| 38. | Christina Aguilera|Zooey Deschanel|Russell Howard|Chris Pine|Jessica Simpson|Channing Tatum |
| 39. | 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 |
| 40. | 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 feet fall without a parachute after the plane she was on was bombed|The French Connection won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the arcade version of Pong was released |
| 41. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
| 42. | Jessica Biel|Kirsten Dunst|Billie Piper|Seth Rogan|Yvonne Strahovski|Prince William |
| 43. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
| 44. | U.S. forces made a controversial move into neutral Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong|New Zealander racing driver and team founder Bruce McLaren was killed while testing a new race car|the North Tower of the World Trade Center was topped out, making it the tallest building in the world |
| 45. | Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades|Argentina beat the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the FIFA World Cup|Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born in the UK |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | Drake|Ellie Goulding|Lindsay Lohan|Rafael Nadal|Robert Pattinson|Oscar Pistorius |
| 48. | 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 |
| 49. | The first ever Major League Soccer season kicked off|Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell|the Prince and Princess of Wales were formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London |
| 50. | 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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