please empty your brain below

Just one guess each, please.

Where is everyone?
i) has to be King James Bible

o) Private Eye (but isn't it biweekly?)

b) Challenger

L - Berlin Wall

u - Arsenal Football Club

Q=
"Here's Looking at You", with Helen McKay a programme of early television broadcasting from Alexandra Palace, North London, in 1936

dg writes: (...and the start of BBC TV)

S = Amundsen reaches the south pole

f: Butlins Holiday Camps?

a = Karl Benz'z patent for the first car

e - The American Civil War.

h = Chernobyl

t) has to be Edward VIII's abdication so he could marry Wallis Simpson.

r) Madame Tussaud

I'll do s - South Pole reached - so that we have done all of q to u.

p anyone ?

Well I can do c, j, k, m, n and p - but I've already had my go!

K is Prince Edward?

C George (Prince of Wales) assumed role of Regent due to Dad's madness.

G Must be first ascent of Everest.

Still to be guessed: d g j k m n p

This New Yorker will handle n: Dedication of the Statue of Liberty. <snip>

Yes, got them all now! Can I have another go? Please?

As I got G wrong (and now know what it was), K is Diana Spencer's birth.

j coke a cola

<snip>
dg writes:
One. Guess. Each.

G: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space?

m - Franz Liszt

d) 1st International Woman's Day


I think "p" is the only one unanswered: Google suggests it's the the Melbourne Cup, (a horse race)

That's the lot. Here's the answers...

a) Karl Benz invents an engine-driven car
b) Challenger Shuttle disaster
c) future George IV becomes Prince Regent
d) International Women's Day
e) American Civil War begins
f) first Butlins camp at Skegness
g) Yuri Gargarin is the first man in space
h) Chernobyl disaster
i) King James Bible published
j) Coca Cola goes on sale
k) birth of Lady Diana Spencer
l) Berlin Wall erected
m) Franz Liszt born
n) Statue of Liberty dedicated
o) first edition of Private Eye
p) Melbourne Cup first run
q) BBC Television service launches
r) birth of Marie Tussaud
s) Amundsen reaches the South Pole
t) King Edward VIII abdicates
u) Arsenal Football Club is formed











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