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| 1. | 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 |
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1960 | |
| 2. | The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee|Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia for the second time |
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2012 | |
| 3. | Tony Blair|Pierce Brosnan|Hulk Hogan|Cyndi Lauper|John Malkovich|Victoria Wood |
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1953 | |
| 4. | Phil Collins|Mark Hamill|Michael Keaton|Kurt Russell|Sting|Robin Williams |
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1951 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space|the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba took place|Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii |
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1961 | |
| 7. | Petr Čech|Anne Hathaway|Kate Middleton|Nicki Minaj|Eddie Redmayne|Matt Smith |
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1982 | |
| 8. | U.S. Navy pilot John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner|Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappeared in Malaysia|the world's first automatic cash machine was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England |
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1967 | |
| 9. | Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt began|a mine collapse in Coalbrook, South Africa killed 500 miners|the Summer Olympic Games were held in Rome |
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1960 | |
| 10. | Rain Man and Who Framed Roger Rabbit were the highest grossing films|a demonstration flight of the new Airbus A320 crashed into the tops of trees beyond the runway at Habsheim, France|the Iran–Iraq War finally came to an end |
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1988 | |
| 11. | The Sound of Music won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India for the first time|Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell as Doctor Who |
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1966 | |
| 12. | 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 | |
| 13. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
| 14. | an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|more than 130 died when the Royal Plaza Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima collapsed|the "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
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1993 | |
| 15. | Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces ended the Kosovo War|Abdullah II inherited the throne after King Hussein of Jordan died from cancer |
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1999 | |
| 16. | 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 |
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1988 | |
| 17. | John Barnes|Phoebe Cates|Lisa Kudrow|Graham Norton|Conan O'Brien|Rob Schneider |
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1963 | |
| 18. | 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 |
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1971 | |
| 19. | 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 | |
| 20. | 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 | |
| 21. | The Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France|boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington|the Bosnian War began |
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1992 | |
| 22. | Peter Andre|Neve Campbell|Neil Patrick Harris|Jim Parsons|Ole Gunnar Solskjær|Ichiro Suzuki |
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1973 | |
| 23. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 24. | Robert Carlyle|Peter Jackson|Heather Locklear|Barack Obama|Dennis Rodman|Forest Whitaker |
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1961 | |
| 25. | 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 |
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1976 | |
| 26. | Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as President of the United States|Joseph Stalin died after suffering a stroke|the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey |
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1953 | |
| 27. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
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1977 | |
| 28. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
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1935 | |
| 29. | 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 | |
| 30. | Princess Anne|Karen Carpenter|Huey Lewis|William H. Macy|Bill Murray|Steve Wozniak |
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1950 | |
| 31. | The Beatles made their first live American TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show|319 were killed in riots at a football game between Peru and Argentina|murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen became the last people to be executed in the UK |
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1964 | |
| 32. | 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 | |
| 33. | 16 infant school pupils and a teacher were killed in the Dunblane massacre in Scotland|"Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin|35 were killed in Tasmania in the Port Arthur massacre |
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1996 | |
| 34. | Bill Bailey|Sherilyn Fenn|Eddie Irvine|Vinnie Jones|Piers Morgan|Marti Pellow |
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1965 | |
| 35. | 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 |
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1994 | |
| 36. | 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 |
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1970 | |
| 37. | The first DeLorean rolled off the production line|Pope John Paul II was shot and nearly killed|NASA put the Space Shuttle into orbit for the first time |
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1981 | |
| 38. | At Camp David, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin formally declared that the Cold War was over|Microsoft released Windows 3.1|a fire at Windsor Castle caused over £50 million worth of damage |
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1992 | |
| 39. | the BBC sitcom Dad's Army was broadcast for the first time in the UK|Rosemary's Baby premiered around the world|a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashed in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs |
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1968 | |
| 40. | Burma gained independence from the United Kingdom|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|the first post-war Summer Olympics were held in London |
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1948 | |
| 41. | 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 | |
| 42. | an IRA bomb killed 5 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton|the Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time|Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union |
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1984 | |
| 43. | Chester Bennington|Cat Deeley|Cillian Murphy|Ross Noble|Ryan Reynolds|Alicia Silverstone |
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1976 | |
| 44. | Edward Heath became Prime Minister of the UK|Jimi Hendrix died in London of drug related complications|Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
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1970 | |
| 45. | The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas|the Iraq War began when U.S. led forces invaded Iraq|Concorde made its last commercial flight |
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2003 | |
| 46. | Kobe Bryant|James Corden|Ashton Kutcher|Manny Pacquiao|Katie Price|Nicole Scherzinger |
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1978 | |
| 47. | Drake|Ellie Goulding|Lindsay Lohan|Rafael Nadal|Robert Pattinson|Oscar Pistorius |
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1986 | |
| 48. | three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Spain in the Palomares B-52 crash|Star Trek debuted on NBC with its first episode, The Man Trap|116 children and 28 adults were killed in the Aberfan disaster in South Wales |
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1966 | |
| 49. | George Best|Ted Bundy|Tim Curry|Diane Keaton|Steven Spielberg|Donald Trump |
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1946 | |
| 50. | Czechoslovakia beat West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win the UEFA European Football Championship|China's Chairman Mao Zedong died of a heart attack|Jimmy Carter defeated the incumbent Gerald Ford in the U.S. presidential election |
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1976 | |
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