| 2101. |
Name The Year: Louis XVI, king of France (1774-92); guillotined, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2102. |
Name The Year: Ludwig II mad king of Bavaria (1864-86), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2103. |
Name The Year: Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2104. |
Name The Year: Mahmud I Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians and Russians, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2105. |
Name The Year: Manuel Quezon, first president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42), born
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2106. |
Name The Year: March by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Alabama.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2107. |
Name The Year: Maria Shriver & Arnold Schwarzenegger marry.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2108. |
Name The Year: Mark Russell, raconteur, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2109. |
Name The Year: Michael Fish British TV weatherman, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2110. |
Name The Year: Michael Landon actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 from cancer.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2111. |
Name The Year: Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2112. |
Name The Year: N.Y. Highlander (Yankees) tickets first go on sale.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2113. |
Name The Year: Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2114. |
Name The Year: National Socialist (Nazi) Party formed in Germany.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2115. |
Name The Year: Nelson Mandella, human rights activist, former political prisoner
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2116. |
Name The Year: New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2117. |
Name The Year: Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2118. |
Name The Year: Oliver Hardy Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2119. |
Name The Year: Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2120. |
Name The Year: Patrick Swayze Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2121. |
Name The Year: Paul Carrack rocker (Squeeze/Ace-How Long), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2122. |
Name The Year: Percy Bysshe Shelley England, romantic poet (Adonais), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2123. |
Name The Year: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2124. |
Name The Year: Phil Ochs rock producer, dies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2125. |
Name The Year: Philippines gains independence from US.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2126. |
Name The Year: Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2127. |
Name The Year: Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2128. |
Name The Year: Potsdam Conference (Roostevelt, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2129. |
Name The Year: Pres. Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Space Act of 1958.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2130. |
Name The Year: Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2131. |
Name The Year: Queen Mother Wilhelmina Netherlands (1890-1948), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2132. |
Name The Year: Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2133. |
Name The Year: Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms' (ie When you get you bords wackwards and you can't palk troperly.), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2134. |
Name The Year: Richie Sambora guitarist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2135. |
Name The Year: Ringo Starr, Beatles' drummer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2136. |
Name The Year: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2137. |
Name The Year: Rob Lowe, actor, famous for home-made movies, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2138. |
Name The Year: Robert Crumb cartoonist (Father Time), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2139. |
Name The Year: Robert Goddard, rocketry pioneer, died.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2140. |
Name The Year: Robert Mitchum, actor, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2141. |
Name The Year: Rod Stewart, singer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2142. |
Name The Year: Ron Kovic disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July was based on his life), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2143. |
Name The Year: Rose Kennedy, Mother of a President, an Attorney General, and a Senator, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2144. |
Name The Year: Royal Air Force established in Britain.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2145. |
Name The Year: Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2146. |
Name The Year: Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2147. |
Name The Year: Sean Connery actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2148. |
Name The Year: Senegalese National Day begins
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2149. |
Name The Year: Sergei Rachmaninoff (in Novgorod Province, Russia), composer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2150. |
Name The Year: Seve Ballesteros, golfer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2151. |
Name The Year: Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2152. |
Name The Year: Sir Henry Havelock British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2153. |
Name The Year: Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2154. |
Name The Year: Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet (Lady of Lake, Ivanhoe), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2155. |
Name The Year: South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2156. |
Name The Year: South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2157. |
Name The Year: Soviet troops enter Berlin
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2158. |
Name The Year: Soyuz 28 is launched.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2159. |
Name The Year: Soyuz T-11 is launched.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2160. |
Name The Year: Soyuz T-9 is launched.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2161. |
Name The Year: Spain declares war on U.S., rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2162. |
Name The Year: Spanish Civil War end as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2163. |
Name The Year: Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2164. |
Name The Year: St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2165. |
Name The Year: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first US saint
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2166. |
Name The Year: St. Vladimir's Day.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2167. |
Name The Year: Steve Tyler, Aerosmith's lead singer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2168. |
Name The Year: Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2169. |
Name The Year: Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2170. |
Name The Year: Suzannah York, actress, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2171. |
Name The Year: Sweden's constitution adopted.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2172. |
Name The Year: Sylvester Stallone NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2173. |
Name The Year: The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker basket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2174. |
Name The Year: The game "Monopoly" is invented.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2175. |
Name The Year: The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin welfare and religious activity here.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2176. |
Name The Year: Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for his revolving door -- described as a storm door structure.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2177. |
Name The Year: Thomas Davenport, invented the first commercially successful electric motor, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2178. |
Name The Year: Tony Curtis [Real Name : Bernard Schwartz], Bronx New York, actor (Some Like it Hot), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2179. |
Name The Year: Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2180. |
Name The Year: TV game show scandal investigation starts.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2181. |
Name The Year: U.S. launches Pioneer Venus probe.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2182. |
Name The Year: U.S. sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2183. |
Name The Year: U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after an 11-month flight from Earth.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2184. |
Name The Year: UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2185. |
Name The Year: US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2186. |
Name The Year: US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during World War II.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2187. |
Name The Year: US declares war on Germany (WWI).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2188. |
Name The Year: US drops second atomic bomb on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki. An estimated 74,000 people died. The original target was Kokura.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2189. |
Name The Year: USSR launches Mars 6.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2190. |
Name The Year: Venera 3, Venus landing.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2191. |
Name The Year: Veronica Lake actress, dies at 58.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2192. |
Name The Year: Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2193. |
Name The Year: Victoria Principal (in Japan), actor (Dallas), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2194. |
Name The Year: Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2195. |
Name The Year: Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2196. |
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2197. |
Name The Year: Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2198. |
Name The Year: Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2199. |
Name The Year: William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 2200. |
Name The Year: Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
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1 |
1 |
100 |