History
The Berlin Wall goes up in August 1961 as tensions between the once-allied forces grow.
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Actor Hugh Grant and prostitute Divine Brown are arrested by Los Angeles police.
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Trading ends on the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday in October 1929, triggering the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
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Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana in US with winds of up to 125mph in August 2005, leaving up to 1,800 deaths
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Dolly the sheep, a clone, is born in July 1996
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Guy Fawkes discovered with 36 barrels of gunpowder planning to blow up Parliament in 1605
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Prince William and Kate marry at Westminster Cathedral in April 2011
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963
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RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks, causing the deaths of 1,502 passengers and staff in April 1912
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Louise Joy Brown, the first ever test tube baby, is born in July 1978
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Jesus of Nazareth dies after being crucified in April 33AD
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Marilyn Monroe’s doctors telephone Los Angeles Police to report her death in 1962
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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King is fatally shot in April 1968.
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The Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine suffers a catastrophic explosion in 1986
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, land on the Moon in 1969
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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy in May 1431
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Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are married at St Paul’s Cathedral in July 1981
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Barack Obama, is sworn in as America’s first black president in January 2009.
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Mount Vesuvius erupts killing most of the population of Pompeii in 79AD
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Beams cross in the Large Hadron Collider in November 2009 by scientists exploring the origins of the universe
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot causing the outbreak of First World War in June 1914
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John Lennon is shot dead by Mark Chapman outside his apartment in New York in December 1980.
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The American War of Independence begins after British troops reach Lexington, Massachusetts, in April 1775.
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American Airlines Flight 11 flies into the World Trade Centre’s North Tower in September 2001
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The first transatlantic wireless message is received paving the way for radio in December 1901.
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