please empty your brain below

Just one guess each, thanks.
s) is Doctor Who - Totter's Yard being where the TARDIS was first seen...
c) is the space shuttle Columbia reentry accident.
q) Benjamin Britten
I think I probably know all except b, g,i,n,p,s, but I'll go for:

j - ball point pen
I'll go for D for David (Livingstone).
I'll take the obvious one

a - first section of the London Underground to open
B) is Pride and Prejudice
L is the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech on the Mall in Washington DC
I'll also go for a reasonably obvious one: r) the assassination of President Kennedy in Texas
k) Great Train Robbery
... and, as for (f), it's saying something given that it IS now twice as high... and yet they seem even further from making ends meet, now, than they were in '73. How can they take so much and still be struggling!? :(
e - King Henry V.
m) Battle of Flodden and the death of James IV
i - the suffragette Emily Davison was killed by the King's horse in the Derby, June 1913
h) Birth of Richard Wagner.
F - didn't tax my brain too much to spot the introduction of Value Added Tax. Which reminds me, have to pay my quarterly return tomorrow.
n is the New River.

T h i s year, dg??
Is p) the Football Association?
g) is surely Superman.
How come no-one has got the solution to t?
Here you go PoP:

t - first crossword puzzle.
O - Giuseppe Verdi.
Well done everybody, that's the lot.

All the anniversaries in the original post are now clickable.

22 November 1963: as well as JFK, also the day when CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died.










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