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Just the one anniversary each, please.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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C) Aldermaston CND March.
I remember going on a March with CND to Aldermaston around Easter 1958. I was a teenager at the time. Does not seem like 50 years ago, the marches atrracted huge crowds in those days.
John | 02.01.08 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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f) Tunguska incident?
Lyle | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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d) Ian Fleming's birth?
Rhys | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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K) Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo
Anonymous | 02.01.08 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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a) Hitler elected as Chancellor (in Germany obviously).
Elaine | 02.01.08 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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l) First performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Chz | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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H) Michael Jackson born in August 1958.
keep up the good work here - happy new year to you DG
Dave B | 02.01.08 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Busy today then, DG? 
Lyle | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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m - Dr Christain Barnard first heart transplant op
dg writes: sorry steve, that was in 1967
steve | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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i: Horatio Nelson born 1758.
Marc | 02.01.08 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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m) Preston Bypass AKA M6, our first motorway opened?
Three Legged Cat | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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B - Munich air crash. Man Utd lost 8 players, were they called 'Busby's babes'?
Happy New Year
Anonymous | 02.01.08 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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J is the first publication of Wind in the Willows.
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dg writes: just one guess each, Alyx
AlyxL | 02.01.08 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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e) was, I think, the opening of the Rotherhithe tunnel. I cycled through there once....a terrifying experience!
NiC | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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G would be London Olympics 1908
Priest\\_Field | 02.01.08 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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All guessed in 2 hours flat!
Answers as follows...
a) Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
b) Munich air crash kills Man Utd Busby Babes
c) Aldermaston march
d) Ian Fleming born
e) Rotherhithe Tunnel opened
f) Tunguska meteor strike
g) London hosts the Olympics
h) Michael Jackson born
i) birth of Horatio Nelson
j) Wind In The Willows published
k) Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
l) first performance of Beethoven's 5th
m) opening of Britain's first motorway - the Preston by-pass
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.08 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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Good grief, I followed your link for item m) to cbrd.co.uk. An hour and a half later, I realise my lunch hour has ended...
flashgordonnz | 03.01.08 - 12:28 a.m. | #
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