| 1793 November 8 | Event | Rupert the Bear | appears in the Daily Express for the first time. |
| 1898 February 12 | Death | Henry Lindfield | Died as a result of shock when having his leg amputated after a car crash near Croydon in England. This was the first recorded fatality of a car accident. |
| 1900 April 5 | Birth | Spencer Tracy | Actor |
| 1900 December 14 | Event | Professor Max Plank of Berlin University | first revealed his revolutionary Quantum Theory. |
| 1900 July 17 | Birth | James Cagney | Actor |
| 1900 July 4 | Birth | Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong | Musician. |
| 1900 June 13 | Event | Chinese Boxer rebellion begins | against Christians and Foreigners. |
| 1900 June 25 | Birth | Louis, Earl Mountbatten | of Burma. |
| 1900 June 6 | Birth | Arther Askey | English Actor/Comedian. |
| 1901 April 3 | Death | Richard d'Oyly Carte | English Impressario behind Gilbert and Sullivan and builder of the Savoy Theatre. |
| 1901 June 11 | Event | Cook Island annexed | and becomes part of New Zealand. |
| 1902 April 14 | Event | Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium | a radioactive element. |
| 1902 May 24 | Event | Empire day first celebrated in England. | |
| 1903 June 25 | Birth | George Orwell | Author (Animal Farm, 1984) |
| 1903 May 29 | Birth | Bob Hope | Actor (Born Leslie Townes) |
| 1903 May 3 | Birth | Bing Crosby | Actor/Singer |
| 1904 April 14 | Birth | John Gielgud | British actor
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| 1904 April 8 | Event | Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale | Which is a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. |
| 1904 July 23 | Event | Invention of the Ice cream Cone | |
| 1904 May 11 | Birth | Salvadore Dali | Surreal Artist. |
| 1904 May 2 | Birth | Bing Crosby | Actor, Born as Harry Lillis Crosby. |
| 1904 May 24 | Birth | George Formby | Singer (William Booth) |
| 1904 May 8 | Death | Eadweard Muybridge | English Photographer (Horse Trot) |
| 1905 June 21 | Birth | Jean-Paul Satre | Philosopher/Author |
| 1905 May 16 | Birth | Henry Fonda | Actor |
| 1905 October 23 | Birth | Felix Bloch | US Physicist (Nobel 1952) |
| 1905 October 23 | Birth | Karl Janski | discovered cosmic radiation emissions in 1932. |
| 1905 October 30 | Event | Russia granted a constitution | by Tsar NIcholas II. |
| 1905 September 18 | Birth | Greta Garbo | Actress |
| 1906 April 11 | Event | Einstein introduces Theory of Relativity | E=mc2 |
| 1906 April 6 | Birth | John Betjeman | English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 |
| 1906 April 9 | Birth | Hugh Gaitskell | Politician who introduced NHS Charges in 1950 and caused the resignation of Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health. |
| 1906 November 22 | Event | SOS as a distress signal | Officially adopted as the new universal signal of distress by the International Radio Telegraphic Conference. |
| 1907 May 13 | Birth | Daphne du Maurier | Author |
| 1907 May 22 | Birth | Laurence Olivier | Actor (Hamlet) |
| 1907 May 26 | Birth | John Wayne | Actor |
| 1908 April 5 | Birth | Herbert von Karajan | Australian musical conductor |
| 1908 April 6 | Birth | Bette Davis | Actress |
| 1908 April 8 | Event | Herbert Henry Asquith becomes Prime Minister | of England |
| 1908 July 26 | Event | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed | in the US of A. |
| 1908 June 12 | Event | Lusitania sets Atlantic crossing record | in 4 days and 15 hours. |
| 1908 May 28 | Birth | Ian Fleming | Author (James Bond books) |
| 1908 May 5 | Birth | Rex Harrison | English Actor. |
| 1908 November 20 | Birth | Alfred (Alistair) Cooke | British born but US bsaed journalist and broadcaster. For many years presented "Letter from America" on BBC's Radio 4 |
| 1908 November 26 | Birth | Charles Forte (Lord Forte) | British business magnate, chairman of Trusthouse Forte, one of the largest hotel and restaurant groups in the world. |
| 1908 October 1 | Event | Introduction of the Model T | by Henry Ford. |
| 1909 April 18 | Event | Joan of Arc | sanctified and declaired a Saint. |
| 1909 April 6 | Event | North Pole Reached | by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson |
| 1909 July 25 | Event | First Airplane flight | across the English Channel. |
| 1909 June 20 | Birth | Errol Flynn | Film Actor |
| 1910 April 5 | Event | Kissing banned on French Railways | |
| 1910 June 11 | Birth | Jaques-Yves Cousteau | French Oceanographer and diver. |
| 1910 June 11 | Birth | Jaques-Yves Cousteau | Underwater explorer and captain of the calypso. |
| 1910 June 4 | Birth | Christopher Cockerell | Inventor of the Hovercraft. |
| 1910 May 10 | Event | First Air show held | at Hendon in England |
| 1910 May 6 | Event | King George V ascends to British Throne. | |
| 1910 May 6 | Death | Edward VII | King of England. |
| 1910 May 9 | Birth | Barbara Woodhouse | Dog Trainer |
| 1911 April 12 | Event | 1st Paris-London non stop flight | by Pierre Prier in 3 hours and 56 minutes. |
| 1911 August 6 | Birth | Lucille Ball | Comedian and actress. |
| 1911 December 14 | Event | The first men to reach the South Pole | Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his three companions reached the South Pole 35 days ahead of Scott’s expedition and planted the Norwegian flag on top of an ice mound. |
| 1911 July 16 | Birth | Ginger Rogers | Film Actress and Dancer. |
| 1911 May 27 | Birth | Vincent Price | Actor |
| 1912 April 13 | Event | Formation of the Royal Flying Corps | Later to become the RAF. |
| 1912 April 15 | Event | Titanic Sinks | after hitting an Iceberg on her maiden voyage. 1,513 died and 732 survive. |
| 1912 April 16 | Event | Harriet Quimby - American flies the English Channel. | The first woman to do so. |
| 1912 April 5 | Birth | John le Mesurier, British Actor | Most famous for the Comedy "Dads Army" which portrayed the English Home Guard during the Second World War in which he played Sgt. Wilson. |
| 1912 April 8 | Birth | Sonja Henie | Norwegian Ice Skater |
| 1912 April 9 | Event | Titanic sails | from Queenstown Ireland for New York. |
| 1912 January 1 | Birth | Kim Philby | English Spy
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| 1912 May 13 | Event | Royal Flying Corps formed in England | |
| 1912 November 5 | Birth | Roy Rogers | Actor of Cowboy fame. |
| 1912 October 21 | Birth | Sir George Solti | Conductor. |
| 1913 November 18 | Event | Loop the Loop first performed by Lincoln Deachey | |
| 1913 September 3 | Birth | Alan Ladd | Actor |
| 1914 April 2 | Birth | Sir Alec Guiness | Actor |
| 1914 April 2 | Birth | Alec Guinness | British actor
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| 1914 May 25 | Event | Irish Home Rule | passed by British Government. |
| 1914 September 16 | Birth | Allen Funt | Creator of "Candid Camera" |
| 1915 June 10 | Event | Girl Scout movement | is founded. |
| 1915 June 24 | Birth | Fred Hoyle | Cosmologist and proposer of steady state universe theory. |
| 1915 June 4 | Birth | Lancelot Ware | founder of MENSA. |
| 1915 May 10 | Event | Zeppelin drops hundreds of bombs on Southend-on-Sea | |
| 1915 May 23 | Event | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany | in the Great War. |
| 1915 May 7 | Birth | Orson Wells | Film Director and Actor. |
| 1915 October 14 | Birth | Alfreda Winifred Hensler | |
| 1915 October 17 | Birth | Arthur Miller | Playwrite. |
| 1916 April 21 | Birth | Anthony Quinn | Film actor
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| 1916 April 24 | Event | Easter rebellion begins | of Irish against British Occupation. |
| 1916 April 5 | Birth | Gregory Peck | Actor |
| 1916 July 1 | Birth | Olivia de Haviland | Actress. |
| 1916 May 17 | Event | British Summer Time Introduced | (Daylight Saving) |
| 1916 October 16 | Event | Opening of the first Birth Control Clinic | in New York by Margaret Sanger. |
| 1917 April 6 | Event | America declare war on Germany | and enter the First World War |
| 1917 August 6 | Birth | Robert Mitchum | Film Actor |
| 1917 July 17 | Event | British royal family changed name | to Windsor. |
| 1917 November 7 | Event | October Revolution | causes overthrow of Russian Provisional Government. |
| 1917 October 21 | Birth | Dizzy Gillespie | Trumpeter and Jazz musician. |
| 1918 April 16 | Birth | Spike Milligan | |
| 1918 December 14 | Event | First Woman to be elected to the British Parliament. | The first woman elected to Parliament was Constance, the Countess Markievicz who won for Sinn Fein contesting a Dublin seat. She was unable to take her seat as she was in Holloway Prison, London, which is why Lady Astor is officially recognized as the first woman member (1919). The 1918 General Election was also the first time women in Britain had the vote. |
| 1918 June 11 | Birth | Nelson Mandella | President of South Africa. |
| 1918 November 10 | Event | Battle for Mons | Just before the end of the great War on 11th November 1918. |
| 1919 April 9 | Birth | John Presper Eckert | Co-inventer of the first electronic computer (ENIAC) |
| 1919 July 20 | Birth | Edmund Hillary | Mountaineer |
| 1919 June 28 | Event | Treaty of Versailles | is signed and ends the Great War. |
| 1919 March 17 | Birth | Nat "King" Cole | Crooner and Singer. |
| 1919 October 17 | Birth | Rita Hayworth | Actress. |
| 1920 August 22 | Birth | Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction Author. |
| 1920 December 14 | Event | The first recorded Air Disaster occured. | The first scheduled airliner disaster in aviation history occurred when an airliner with six passengers and two crew took off from Cricklewood Airport, London, for a flight to Paris. Barely airborne, the plane crashed into a house in neighbouring Golders Green, killing the crew and two passengers. The others escaped from the wreckage. |
| 1920 May 16 | Event | Joan of Arc (Jean D'Arc) canonised as a Saint. | |
| 1920 October 8 | Birth | Frank Herbert | Sci-Fi Author. |
| 1920 September 23 | Birth | Mickey Rooney | Actor |
| 1921 April 16 | Birth | Peter Ustinov | Actor & writer
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| 1921 April 16 | Birth | Peter Ustinov | Actor & writer
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| 1921 June 10 | Birth | Phillip Mountbatten, in Greece | Duke of Edinburgh and Prince, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. |
| 1921 June 21 | Birth | Jane Russell | Actress |
| 1921 September 30 | Birth | Deborah Kerr | Actress |
| 1922 April 3 | Event | Joseph Stalin appointed Communist Party General Secretary | |
| 1922 April 3 | Event | Emily Pankhirst Jaled for three years. | For inciting supporters to put explosives at David Lloyd Goerge's home. |
| 1922 April 5 | Birth | Elmer Bernstein | Movie music Composer |
| 1922 January 1 | Birth | Rocky Graziano | Boxer
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| 1922 June 10 | Birth | Judy Garland | Actress and Singer. |
| 1922 June 14 | Birth | Earnest "Che" Guevara | Revolutionary |
| 1922 May 27 | Birth | Christopher Lee | Actor |
| 1922 May 31 | Birth | Denholm Elliott | English Actor |
| 1922 November 26 | Event | The Tomb of Tutankhamun first opened. | Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon, Carter’s sponsor, became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed 3,000 years before. Having escaped detection by tomb robbers, it was complete with golden statues and golden throne inlaid with gems. |
| 1922 November 4 | Event | Tomb of King Tutankhamen discovered | by Howard Carter. |
| 1922 October 18 | Birth | Chuck Berry | Rock and Roller! |
| 1922 October 18 | Event | The British Broadcasting Corporation is formed | the "BBC" or "Auntie Beeb" as more affectionately known. |
| 1922 October 28 | Event | Benito Mussolini takes control | of the Italian Government. |
| 1923 August 8 | Birth | Esther William | English actress. |
| 1923 November 18 | Birth | Alan Sheppard | First American in Space on Fredom 7. Also part of the crew of Apollo 14. |
| 1924 April 2 | Birth | Doris Day | Actress |
| 1924 April 20 | Birth | Leslie Phillips | British actor
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| 1924 June 3 | Death | Franz Kafka | Czech Author. |
| 1924 May 22 | Birth | Charles Aznavour | Singer |
| 1924 October 1 | Birth | Jimmy Carter | 39th President of the USA (1976-1980 |
| 1925 April 14 | Birth | Rod Steiger | American film actor
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| 1925 April 15 | Event | James Barrie donates copyright fees to Great Ormond Street | Hospital for Children from his Peter Pan story. |
| 1925 July 10 | Event | TASS established | The ofiicial News Agency of the USSR. |
| 1925 June 3 | Birth | Tony Curtis | Actor (born Bernard Schwartz) |
| 1925 May 12 | Birth | Tony Hancock | Actor and Comedian. |
| 1925 October 3 | Birth | Gore Vidal | Author |
| 1926 April 6 | Birth | Ian Paisley | Northern Irish Minister and Politician |
| 1926 May 12 | Event | British General Strike ends. | |
| 1926 September 25 | Event | Henry Ford announces the start of the five day week. | |
| 1927 May 1 | Birth | Harry Belafonte | Calypso Singer (Banana Boat Song) |
| 1927 May 20 | Event | Saudi Arabia becomes independent of England | |
| 1927 October 16 | Birth | Gunter Grass | Author. |
| 1928 April 14 | Birth | Robert Mugabe | president Zimbabwe (1988-?) |
| 1928 April 6 | Birth | James Dewey Watson | Chamist who discovered DNA along with Criek |
| 1928 April 9 | Event | Mae West debues | in "Diamond Lil" a daring new play in New York. |
| 1928 July 26 | Birth | Stanley Kubrick | Film Director (2001, A Clockwork Orange) |
| 1928 May 15 | Event | Debut of Mickey Mouse | in Steam Boat Willie (?) |
| 1928 May 24 | Birth | Stanley Baxter | English Commedian |
| 1928 November 18 | Birth | Mickey Mouse | Disney Cartoon Character. |
| 1928 September 17 | Birth | Roddy McDowall | Actor |
| 1929 April 17 | Birth | James Last | Orchestra leader/composer/arranger |
| 1929 April 5 | Birth | Nigel Hawthorne | British Actor |
| 1929 April 6 | Birth | Andre Previn | German Conductor and pianist. |
| 1929 February 15 | Birth | Graham Hill | British F1 World Champion (1962 1968)
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| 1929 June 12 | Birth | Anne Frank | Diarist. |
| 1929 June 7 | Event | Vatican City becomes a Sovereign State | |
| 1929 June 7 | Event | Vatican City created | when the Vatican becomes a sovereign state. |
| 1929 October 24 | Event | Black Thursday starts the collapse of the US Stock Market | |
| 1929 September 17 | Birth | Stirling Moss | British F1 driver (knighted 2000)
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| 1930 April 23 | Birth | Michael Bowen | RC Archbishop of Southwark, UK. |
| 1930 April 31 | Birth | Clint Eastwood | Actor and Mayor of Carmel California. |
| 1930 August 5 | Birth | Neil Armstrong born today | and went on to be the first man to stand on the moon. |
| 1930 August 8 | Birth | Andy Warhol | Artist and Film Maker. |
| 1930 August 9 | Birth | Betty Boop | Cartoon Sirene! |
| 1930 May 5 | Event | Any Johnson takes off from England | on the first solo female flight to Australia. |
| 1930 September 24 | Birth | John W Young | Astronaut Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, STS 1 and 9. |
| 1930 September 24 | Birth | Jim Henson | Creator of the Muppets. (Kermit, Miss Piggy et al) |
| 1931 May 1 | Event | Empire State Building Opens | in New York City. |
| 1931 October 17 | Event | Gangster Al Capone sentenced to eleven years | for tax evasion in the USA. |
| 1932 April 10 | Birth | Omar Sharif, Actor | Real name Michael Shalhoub. |
| 1932 December 14 | Event | Floodlit Rugby League starts. | when the first floodlit rugby league match was held at London’s White City Stadium between Leeds and Wigan. |
| 1932 October 3 | Event | Iraq becomes independent. | Gaining this from Britain. |
| 1932 September 23 | Event | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is formed | and today is the National day! |
| 1933 April 13 | Event | First flight over Mount Everest | by Lord Clydedale. |
| 1933 April 19 | Birth | Harold "Dickie" Bird | Noted English Cricket Umpire |
| 1933 April 20 | Birth | Jayne Mansfield | Film actress
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| 1933 January 1 | Birth | Joe Orton | Writer
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| 1934 July 17 | Birth | Donald Sutherland | Actor (M*A*S*H*) |
| 1934 June 9 | Event | Premier of the first Donald Duck cartoon | called "The wise little hen". |
| 1934 May 18 | Event | TWA begin commercial flight service. | |
| 1934 September 20 | Birth | Sophia Loren | Actress |
| 1935 April 19 | Birth | Dudley Moore | British actor
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| 1935 January 8t | Birth | Elvis Presley | Singer and Actor |
| 1935 October 1 | Birth | Julie Andrews | Actress and Film Star. |
| 1935 September 3 | Event | 300mph Land Speed record broken | by Sir Malcolm Campbell. |
| 1936 April 23 | Birth | Roy Orbison | American singer/songwriter
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| 1936 February 26 | Event | Volkswagen "The Peoples Car" launched | by Hitler, the car having been designed by Ferdinand Porsche. |
| 1936 May 17 | Birth | Dennis Hopper | Actor |
| 1936 September 7 | Birth | Buddy Holly | Singer. |
| 1937 April 17 | Event | Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd and Petunia Pig | make their debut today! |
| 1937 April 22 | Birth | Jack Nicholson | American film actor
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| 1937 April 9 | Birth | Valerie Singleton Actress | Presenter of Blue Peter, british childrens TV programme. |
| 1937 June 3 | Event | Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) marries Wallis Simpson | in France. |
| 1938 April 6 | Birth | Paul Daniels | British Magician |
| 1938 May 12 | Birth | Susan Hampshire | English Actress. |
| 1938 November 26 | Birth | Tina Turner | Actress and Singer. |
| 1938 October 17 | Birth | Robert "Evil" Knievel | Stuntman. |
| 1938 October 30 | Event | War of the Worlds first broadcast on Radio | Orson Welles radio broadcast panics the American nation as fears are that the invasion is for real. |
| 1939 April 12 | Birth | Alan Aycbourn | Playwrite |
| 1939 April 12 | Birth | Alan Ayckbourn | British writer
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| 1939 April 17 | Birth | Robin Knox-Johnson | Yachtsman. |
| 1939 April 5 | Event | Membership in Hitler Youth became obligatory | |
| 1939 April 6 | Event | Great Britain and Poland sign military pact. | |
| 1939 April 7 | Birth | David Frost | British broadcaster
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| 1939 December 2n | Event | Newcastle Steamer Dalryan sank after striking mine | A Southeast lifeboat comes inshore fully laden after putting out to the Newcastle steamer Dalryan, which sank after striking a mine. All the crew were saved.
Daily Mail Sat Dec 2nd 1939 |
| 1939 June 11 | Birth | John Young (Jackie) Stewart | British F1 World Champion (1969, 1971, 1973) |
| 1939 September 3 | Event | Britain declare war on Germany | followed six hours later by the French. |
| 1939 September 3 | Event | Britain and France declare war on Germany | Two days after Germany invades Poland,Britain and France
declare war on Germany,and also helps to begin WWII |
| 1940 April 10 | Birth | Gloria Hunniford | British TV Presenter. |
| 1940 April 12 | Birth | Herbie Hancock | Musician. |
| 1940 April 23 | Birth | Lee Majors | American actor
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| 1940 April 9 | Event | German invades Norway and Denmark | Denmark Surrenders. |
| 1940 July 10 | Event | Battle of Britain begins | as germany starts attack by Air. |
| 1940 June 10 | Event | Italy declares war | on France and Britain. |
| 1940 June 10 | Event | Italy declares war | on England and France. |
| 1940 June 18 | Event | French Retreat | |
| 1940 June 4 | Event | Completion of evacuation of Dunkirk | of 300,000 British troops. |
| 1940 June 7 | Birth | Tom Jones (Woodward) | Singer at Pontypridd, Wales. |
| 1940 October 23 | Birth | Edison Pele | Football player. |
| 1941 April 12 | Birth | Bobby Moore | England football captain
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| 1941 April 5 | Birth | Eric Burdon, Rock Musician | Amimals of the Rising Sun |
| 1941 April 5 | Birth | Dave Swarbrick, Rock Musician | Fairport Convention |
| 1941 January 21 | Birth | Placido Domingo | Operatic Tenor. |
| 1941 June 4 | Death | Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, Emperor | Germany (1888-1918) |
| 1941 May 24 | Birth | Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) | Singer/Song writer. |
| 1941 May 27 | Event | German Battleship Bismarck | sunk by British naval force. |
| 1941 October 23 | Event | "Dumbo" is released | by Walt Disney. |
| 1941 October 3 | Birth | Chubby Checker | Singer/Rocker. |
| 1942 April 16 | Event | Island of Malta awarded the George Cross | for its' heroism during the Second World War. |
| 1942 April 23 | Birth | Barbra Streisand | Actress/Singer |
| 1942 June 14 | Event | Walt Disney releases "Bambi" | |
| 1942 June 18 | Birth | Paul McCartney | of Beatles fame. |
| 1942 May 12 | Birth | Ian Dury | Essex rocker (Ian Dury and the Blockheads). |
| 1942 May 31 | Event | Luftwaffe bomb Canterbury | in England. |
| 1942 October 2 | Event | Self sustaining Nuclear reaction is demonstrated | for the first time in Chicago. |
| 1943 April 6 | Event | British and American forces join up in Africa | |
| 1943 April 7 | Event | LSD First Synthesized | Full name Lysergic Acid Diethylamide by Albert Hoffman in Switzerland |
| 1943 July 26 | Birth | Mick Jagger | Lead singer of The Rolling Stones. |
| 1943 May 27 | Birth | Cilla Black | English Singer |
| 1944 April 10 | Event | Allies liberate first Nazi Concentration Camp | Buchenwald in Czech. |
| 1944 April 6 | Event | British Government introduces Pay as you Earn Taxation | A system devised by Sir Cornelius Gregg |
| 1944 June 12 | Event | 1st V-1 bomb attack on London | during the 2nd world war. |
| 1945 April 12 | Death | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | of a brain Haemorrage less than a month before the Germans surrender to the allies. |
| 1945 April 15 | Event | Battle of Berlin | Starts today. |
| 1945 April 30 | Death | Adolf Hitler | Shoots himself in his underground bunker. |
| 1945 April 6 | Birth | Bob Marley | Reggae musician and singer |
| 1945 August 14 | Event | VJ Day | Japan surrenders at the end of the second World War. |
| 1945 August 6 | Event | First Atom omb dropped on Hiroshima | by the crew of the "Enola Gay". |
| 1945 August 9 | Event | Nagasaki bombed by second atom bomb. | |
| 1945 July 16 | Event | 1st Atomic Explosion | at Trinity Site, Alamogrodo in New Mexico, |
| 1945 June 26 | Event | UN Charter is signed | by 50 nations in San Francisco. |
| 1945 June 4 | Birth | Daniel Topolski | Rowing Coach. |
| 1945 March 12 | Death | Anne Frank | Notable World War II Diarist is killed in Auschwitz. |
| 1945 May 19 | Birth | Peter Townsend | Musician (The Who) |
| 1945 May 23 | Event | Lord Haw-Haw arrested on Danish boundary. | |
| 1945 May 25 | Birth | Dave Lee Travis | English DJ. |
| 1945 May 8 | Event | Germany surrenders | thus ending the second world war in Europe. |
| 1945 November 21 | Event | The Nuremberg Trials commence | where the War Crimes of Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop and Streicher, amongst others were tried. The trials lasted for 218 days. |
| 1945 October 21 | Event | Women allowed to vote in France | for the first time. |
| 1945 October 24 | Event | United Nations Charter | goes into effect. |
| 1945 September 02 | Event | V-J Day | Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri. |
| 1946 April 21 | Event | Syria gains independence | from France |
| 1946 March 12 | Birth | Liza Minnelli | Singer and Actress. |
| 1946 May 1 | Birth | Joanna Lumley | Actress. |
| 1946 May 26 | Event | US patent filed for H-Bomb | |
| 1947 April 7 | Death | Henry Ford | Manufacturer of Cars |
| 1947 August 29 | Birth | James Hunt | British F1 World Champion (1976)
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| 1947 July 10 | Birth | Arlo Guthrie | Comedian and Singer (Alice's Restaurant). |
| 1947 June 5 | Birth | Laurie Anderson | Singer/Performance Artist. |
| 1947 October 14 | Event | First supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager | He attains Mach 1.015 at an altitude of 12,800m |
| 1949 April 4 | Event | Formation of North Atlantic Treaty | Eleven countries initially signed the treaty in Washington |
| 1949 August 29 | Event | Russia explodes their first atomic bomb | and so started the cold war? |
| 1950 April 12 | Birth | David Cassidy | Singer/Actor - Partridge Family TV Series. |
| 1950 April 18 | Event | First Trans-Atlantic passenger jet trip. | |
| 1950 April 8 | Death | Vaslav Nijinsky - Dancer | After many years of Insanity |
| 1950 April 9 | Event | Bob Hope, Actor, makes first TV appearance. | |
| 1950 June 25 | Event | El Al commences air service. | |
| 1950 October 2 | Event | Peanuts the cartoon strip premiers | in nine different newspapers. |
| 1951 April 13 | Birth | Peter Davison | British actor (Dr Who 1982-84)
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| 1951 June 14 | Event | UNIVAC revealed for the first time | The first Computer? |
| 1951 September 20 | Event | First crossing of the North Pole by Jet aircraft. | |
| 1952 November 1 | Event | Explosion of the 1st Hydrogen bomb | at Eniwetok Atoll on the pacific. |
| 1952 September 02 | Birth | Jimmy Connors | Tennis Champion. |
| 1953 April 10 | Birth | David Moorcroft | British Athlete. |
| 1953 August 8 | Birth | Nigel Mansell | British F1 World Champion (1992)
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| 1953 July 26 | Event | Fidel castro starts revolution | against Batista. |
| 1953 May 15 | Birth | Mike Oldfield | English Composer (Tubular Bells) |
| 1953 October 22 | Event | Laos gains full independance | from France. |
| 1954 April 12 | Event | Bill Halley records "Rock around the Clock" | The frst record to sell more than a million in the UK. |
| 1954 April 9 | Birth | Ian Duncan Smith | British MP
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| 1954 May 6 | Event | Roger Bannister of Britain breaks four minute mile | in a time of 3:59:04 |
| 1955 April 15 | Event | MacDonalds open the first shop | in California. |
| 1955 April 18 | Death | Albert Einstein | Physicist E=MC2 |
| 1956 October 18 | Birth | Martina Navratilova | Tennis player. |
| 1957 April 29 | Birth | Michelle Pfeiffer | American film actress
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| 1957 August 23 | Event | Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) | is formed. |
| 1957 May 10 | Birth | Sid Vicious (John Simon Richie) | Basist (Sex Pistols) |
| 1958 April 17 | Birth | Sean Bean | British actor
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| 1958 May 31 | Event | US Perform atmospheric Nuclear test | at Bikini Island. |
| 1958 October 2 | Event | Gunea gains Independance | |
| 1959 April 15 | Birth | Emma Thompson | English Actress. |
| 1959 December 14 | Event | Shortest Murder trial in England takes place | The shortest murder trial in British legal history took place. In 30 seconds at Winchester Assizes, Brian Cawley pleaded guilty to murder of Rupert Steed and was later sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 1959 March 17 | Event | The Dalai Lama flees Tibet | for India due to troubles in the country. |
| 1959 May 24 | Event | Empire Day renamed Commenwealth Day | in England. |
| 1959 May 30 | Event | Testing of Hovercraft (SR-N1) | The worlds first at Cowes in England. |
| 1959 October 7 | Event | First photographs of the far side of the moon | taken by Luna 3. |
| 1960 April 11 | Event | Satellite Tiros 1 Launched | The first weather satellite. |
| 1960 April 17 | Death | Eddy Cochran | Rock Musician at 21 years old in a car crash. |
| 1960 August 20 | Event | Three dogs are carried into Orbit | by Sputnik 5 |
| 1960 March 21 | Birth | Ayrton Senna | F1 driver
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| 1960 March 30 | Birth | David Debono | Internet author of The Historical Reenactment Web Site - Histrenact. |
| 1961 April 11 | Event | Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins | in Israel. |
| 1961 April 12 | Event | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in Space | after his flight in the Russian Vostok 1 craft. |
| 1961 April 3 | Birth | Eddie Murphy | American film actor
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| 1961 April 6 | Birth | Rory Bremner | English Impressionist and comic |
| 1961 August 13 | Event | Berlin Wall erected in East Germany | |
| 1962 December 14 | Event | First close up pictures of Venus recieved | when US Mariner II sent the pictures of the planet back to earth. |
| 1962 June 27 | Event | X-15 plane flies | at 4105 MPH |
| 1962 October 18 | Event | Watson, Crick and Wilkins get Nobel Prize for Medicine | for their work on the structure of DNA. |
| 1963 July 25 | Event | USA, Russia and England sign | nuclear test ban treaty. |
| 1963 June 21 | Event | Pope Paul VI | elected (Giovanni Battista Montini) |
| 1963 June 27 | Event | X-15 plane flies | over 87km high. Robert Rushworth at the controls. |
| 1963 June 3 | Death | Pope John XXIII | (Angelo G Roncalli) |
| 1963 June 4 | Event | Minister of War John Profumo resigns | over Christine Keeler affair. |
| 1963 May 3 | Event | Martin Luther King Jr delivers speach | "I have a dream...." |
| 1963 November 22 | Event | John F. Kennedy assasinated | as he was driven in an open car on his official visit to Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was subsequently charged with the murder. |
| 1963 November 22 | Event | Boxer Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ | when he beats Trevor Berbick in a fight in Las Vegas lasting just two rounds. |
| 1964 April 13 | Event | Sidney Piotier wins an Oscar | for best actor in "Lillies in the Field" the first black actor to do so. |
| 1964 April 5 | Death | General Douglas MacArthur US. | Pacific Theatre WWII |
| 1964 April 7 | Death | Jim Clark, Racing Driver | Killed in a crash at Hockenheim, Germany |
| 1964 April 7 | Birth | Russell Crowe | Film actor
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| 1964 January | Death | John F. Kennedy | Shot from the grassy knoll? |
| 1964 October 24 | Event | Zambia gains independance | from Britain. |
| 1964 September 27 | Event | Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone | decides the Warren Commission. |
| 1965 June 10 | Birth | Elizabeth Hurley | English Actress. |
| 1965 October 28 | Event | Jews not collectivelty guilty of crucifixion | says Pope Paul VI. |
| 1966 April 3 | Event | USSR Spacecraft Luna 10 orbits moon for the first time | |
| 1967 April 17 | Event | Surveyor 3 is Launched | for the moon it lands on April 20th |
| 1967 April 8 | Event | Sandy Shaw wins Eurovision Song Contest | Barefoot with a rendition of "Puppet on a String" |
| 1967 April 9 | Event | First Boeing 747 Aircraft rolls off production line. | |
| 1967 August 9 | Death | Joe Orton | Writer
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| 1967 June 10 | Death | Spencer Tracey | Actor |
| 1967 June 12 | Event | End of the Six Days War | Israel win. |
| 1967 June 29 | Death | Jayne Mansfield | Film actress
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| 1967 June 4 | Event | Start of six days war | between Israel and Arab neighbours. |
| 1968 April 18 | Event | London bridge is sold to Robert McCullough. | The Oil Tycoon buys the old bridge for £1 million and has it re-built at Lake Havasu in the USA. |
| 1968 April 4 | Death | Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Leader | Shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. |
| 1968 August 22 | Event | Soviet Union invade Czechoslovakia. | |
| 1969 April 9 | Event | First flight of Concorde 002 | from Filton-Bristol airfield. |
| 1969 August 16 | Event | Start of the Woodstock musical festival | in the United States. |
| 1969 January 3 | Birth | Michael Schumacher | German F1 World Champion
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| 1969 July 20 | Event | First Men to land on the moon | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin establish Tranquility base at 09:18 GMT. |
| 1969 May 10 | Event | Appolo 10 transmits first colour pictures | to Earth from Space. |
| 1969 May 11 | Event | Monty Python Commedy Troupe forms. | |
| 1970 April 13 | Event | Appolo 13 announces "Houston we've got a problem" | after a Beech-built oxygen tank explodes. Roumer has it that the actual transmittion was "Houston we have had a problem" when the astronaughts failed to hear the explosion due to listening to classical music at high volume in the capsule! |
| 1970 April 17 | Event | Appolo 13 lands safely after a bad mission! | |
| 1970 April 9 | Event | The Beatles split up | Paul McCartney officially anounces the split. |
| 1970 October 8 | Event | Alexander Solzhenitsyn gets Nobel Prize | for Literature. |
| 1971 April 22 | Event | Soyuz 10 Launched | |
| 1971 April 29 | Event | Launch of Salyut 1 | First Space Station. |
| 1971 July 30 | Event | Apollo 15 lands | on Mare Imbrium. |
| 1972 April 16 | Event | Launch of Apollo 16 | 5th Lunar Landing at Descartes Highlands. |
| 1972 May 22 | Death | Margaret Rutherford | Actress |
| 1972 September 4 | Event | Seven Olympic medals are won by Mark Spitz | at swimming. He is the first person ever to do this feat. |
| 1973 April 5 | Event | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter | |
| 1973 April 8 | Death | Pablo Picasso - Painter | Aged 91 a painter and sculpter who pioneered the style of cunism. |
| 1973 December 14 | Event | John Paul Getty II released by kidnappers | when the teenage grandson of the oil tycoon, was set free by his Italian kidnappers after part of his ear had been cut off and sent by post, together with a ransom note demanding $750,000 which was paid by his grandfather. |
| 1973 October 24 | Event | Yom Kippur War ends | |
| 1973 September 23 | Event | Largest known prime number is calculated | and it is..... (2^132,049 -1) so there you go! |
| 1974 April 5 | Event | The then tallest building in the world opens, The WTC | Both towers of which were brought down by terrorist action on 11th September 2001 with a loss of aproximately 3000 lives. |
| 1974 August 9 | Event | President Nixon resigns | after Watergate affair. |
| 1974 August 9 | Event | President Nixon resigns | after Watergate affair. |
| 1974 May 24 | Death | Duke Ellington | Blues Singer. |
| 1974 September 12 | Event | Emperor Haile Selassie of Etheopia os overthrown. | |
| 1974 September 16 | Event | president Ford announces provisional amnesty | for deserters during the Vietnam war. |
| 1975 April 23 | Death | William Hartnell - Actor | Doctor Who Fame dies at 67. |
| 1975 April 30 | Event | US forces leave Vietnam | after Saigon surrenders. |
| 1975 June 11 | Event | Oil pumped from the North Sea for the first time | to Great britain. |
| 1975 November 29 | Death | Graham Hill | British F1 driver - plane crash, Elstree airfield.
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| 1976 April 5 | Death | Howard Hughes, reclusive Billionaire | Dies aged 72 |
| 1976 July 4 | Event | Raid on Entebbe | Israel rescues 229 Air france passengers. |
| 1976 June 6 | Death | John Paul Getty | Billionaire oil magnate. |
| 1977 June 10 | Event | Apple ship forst Apple II computer | |
| 1977 June 10 | Event | Apple ships first Apple II computer | |
| 1977 June 4 | Event | Apple II, first personal computer | goes on sale for the first time. |
| 1977 May 10 | Death | Joan Crawford | Actress. |
| 1978 July 25 | Birth | Louise Brown | First Test Tube baby born today. |
| 1978 June 19 | Birth | Garfield the cat | |
| 1978 October 16 | Event | Pole Karol Wojtyla elected Pope | John-Paul II |
| 1979 June 11 | Death | John Wayne | Actor |
| 1979 June 12 | Event | First man powered flight across English Channel | as Bryan Allen flew "Gossamer Albatros" across in 2 hrs and 49 mins. |
| 1979 May 3 | Event | margaret Thather becomes 1sy female Prime Minister | in England. |
| 1979 May 4 | Death | Audrey Hepburn | Actress. |
| 1979 September 24 | Event | Compuserve starts service | as the first public computer information service. |
| 1980 April 15 | Death | John Paul Sartre | Exitentialist (Nobel 1964) |
| 1980 April 18 | Event | Aimbabwe declares independence from the UK. | Formerly Southern Rodesia |
| 1980 April 23 | Event | US Mission to save hostages in Iran fails, | 52 Hostages in total but 8 die in the operation. |
| 1980 April 29 | Death | Alfred Hitchcock | Film Director. |
| 1980 December 8 | Death | John Winston Lennon | Ex-Beatle, shot outside his New York apartment by Mark Chapman
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| 1980 February 17 | Death | Graham Sutherland | Artist died aged 76
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| 1980 January 25 | Event | Paul McCartney | Deported from Japan for importing marijuana.
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| 1980 January 3 | Death | Joy Adamson | Austrian-born author of "Born Free" murdered
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| 1980 July 24 | Death | Peter Sellers | British actor
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| 1980 June 7 | Death | Henry Miller | American author aged 89
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| 1980 March 27 | Event | The Alexander Kieland oil rig collapsed | |
| 1980 March 4 | Event | Robert Mugabe | Elected 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, aged 52.
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| 1980 May 4 | Death | Marshall Tito | President of Yugoslavia.
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| 1980 May 5 | Event | Iranian embassy siege ends | SAS storm London embassy, 5 of the 6 terrorists shot dead
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| 1980 November 18 | Event | Voyager discovered the 15th moon of Saturn | |
| 1980 November 7 | Death | Steve McQueen | US actor died from cancer
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| 1980 October 11 | Event | Earthquake in El Asnam, Algeria | 20,000 die
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| 1981 April 10 | Event | IRA Hunger Striker Bobby Sands elected | to English Parliament. |
| 1981 April 12 | Event | Maiden Voyage of Space Shuttle Columbia | Starting the USA's era of nearly re-useable space craft. |
| 1981 April 14 | Event | 1st Space shuttle Columbia returns to Earth | after a successful mission. |
| 1981 April 23 | Event | IBM Introduce the IBM-PC | |
| 1981 April 3 | Event | Brixton Riots | Youths riot in the suberb of Brixton, South London, starting fires, throwing petrol bombs, looting and attacking police. |
| 1981 May 4 | Death | Bobby Sands | Irish IRA Terrorist dies after a hunger strike. |
| 1982 April 5 | Event | British task force sets sail | to recover the Falkland Islands from an invasionary Argentinian occupation force. |
| 1982 June 12 | Event | Battle of Mount Longdon | in the Falklands conflict. |
| 1982 June 14 | Event | Britain wins the Falklands conflict | and regains the Iselands from the Argentinians. |
| 1982 June 17 | Event | Ronald Reagan delivers "Evil Empire" speach. | |
| 1982 May 26 | Event | Atlantic Conveyor and HMS Coventry hit | during the Falklands conflict. |
| 1983 April 5 | Event | Maiden voyage of STS Space Shuttle Challenger | |
| 1983 April 9 | Event | Jenny Pitman wins the Grand National | and becomes the first woman to train a winner with horse Corbiere. |
| 1983 June 13 | Event | Pioneer 10 leavs the solar system | and is the first man-made object to achieve this feat. |
| 1983 June 18 | Event | Sally Ride becomes first woman in space | on board Challenger. |
| 1983 November 15 | Death | John le Mesurier | British actor
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| 1983 November 26 | Event | Brinks Mat robbery occurs in England | The Brinks Mat security warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed of £25 million worth of gold bars weighing three tons. It was the biggest UK bank heist and none of the gold has ever been recovered. |
| 1984 April 15 | Death | Tommy Cooper | Comedian, does at 61 on Stage. |
| 1984 April 23 | Event | Aids Virus identified | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| 1984 April 6 | Event | Shuttle Mission 41-C-Challenger 5 launched | The 11th space shuttle mission. |
| 1984 May 28 | Death | Erich Morecombe | English Comedian (Morecombe and Wise) |
| 1984 October 11 | Event | First Woman walkes in Space | Kathy Sullivan makes the walk. |
| 1984 September 18 | Event | First solo crossin of the Atlantic by Balloon | undertaken by Joe Kittinger. |
| 1985 June 11 | Event | Vega I lands on Venus | for the Russians. |
| 1985 May 11 | Event | Bradford City football stadium fire | kills 40 and injures 150 more. |
| 1985 May 29 | Death | Heysel Stadium Disaster | 39 Liverpool fans die at Stadium before the match starts. |
| 1985 October 16 | Event | Introduction of the 32-bit 80386 processor | by Intel Corporation. |
| 1986 April 26 | Event | Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in Russia Leaks | Causing a massive radiation problem. |
| 1986 April 8 | Event | Clint Eastwood elected Mayor | of Carmel California. |
| 1986 June 3 | Death | Anna Neagle | Actress at 81. |
| 1986 May 25 | Event | Live Aid benefit concert | watched by 30,000,000 people. |
| 1988 April 15 | Death | Kenneth Williams | Actor of "Carry On" Films |
| 1988 December 6 | Death | Roy Orbison | American singer/songwriter
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| 1988 May 11 | Death | Kim Philby | English Spy
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| 1989 April 10 | Event | Intel announce shipping of new 80-486 chip. | |
| 1989 April 12 | Death | Sugar Ray Robinson | Heavyweight Champion. |
| 1989 April 5 | Event | Solidarity granted legal status in Poland | |
| 1989 April 7 | Event | A Soviet Nuclear Sub Sinks | off the coast of Norway after catching fire. Loss of 40 lives. |
| 1989 October 6 | Death | Bette Davis | American film actress
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| 1990 April 15 | Death | Greta Garbo | Actress. |
| 1990 April 24 | Event | Hubble Space Telescope put into orbit | by Shuttle Discovery. |
| 1990 August 2 | Event | Invasion of Kuwait | by Saddam Hussein of Iraq. |
| 1990 May 22 | Death | Max Wall | Actor |
| 1990 May 22 | Death | Rocky Graziano | Boxer
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| 1991 April 22 | Event | Intel release 486sx | Processor Chip. |
| 1991 April 3 | Death | Graham Green | Novellist, at Vevey in Switzerland aged 86 Years. |
| 1991 September 19 | Event | Man's body found on Alpine Glacier | after 5,300 years! |
| 1992 April 19 | Death | Frankie Howerd | Actor, Carry on Films, Up Pompei |
| 1992 April 20 | Death | Benny Hill | Comedian at 67 of a heart attack. |
| 1992 April 6 | Event | Microsoft Corporation announce Windows 3.1 | Which upgrades Windows 3.0! |
| 1992 April 6 | Event | Serbian troops start siege of Sarajevo | |
| 1992 April 6 | Death | Issac Asimov | Science Fiction Author |
| 1993 April 24 | Event | IRA 100kg bomb explosion | in London killing one person. |
| 1993 April 25 | Event | Boris Yeltsin wins election | The first ever Russian democratic election. |
| 1993 February 24 | Death | Bobby Moore | England football captain
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| 1993 June 15 | Death | James Hunt | British F1 World Champion - heart attack aged 45
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| 1993 September 7 | Event | South African Government agrees to Power-share with Blacks | and began to dismantle Anti-Apartheit |
| 1994 April 15 | Death | John Curry | English Olympic Figure Skater (Oly-Gold-76) |
| 1994 April 8 | Event | Unveiling of restored fresco in the Cistine Chapel | Michaelangelos work is restored in an "incredible" result. |
| 1994 May 1 | Death | Ayrton Senna | F1 driver killed at San Marino GP
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| 1994 May 12 | Death | John Smith MP | Leader of the British Labour Party. |
| 1995 March 17 | Death | Ronnie Kray | One half of the notable Kray Brothers, English Gangsters, dies at the age of 61. |
| 1996 April 6 | Death | Greer Garson | Actress |
| 2000 August 5 | Death | Alec Guinness | British actor
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| 2000 May 22 | Death | John Gielgud | British actor
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| 2001 December 26 | Death | Nigel Hawthorne | British actor
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| 2001 June 3 | Death | Anthony Quinn | Film actor
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| 2002 April 9 | Event | Burial of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | Queen Mother |
| 2002 February 27 | Death | Spike Milligan | |
| 2002 July 9 | Death | Rod Steiger | American film actor
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| 2002 March 27 | Death | Dudley Moore | British actor
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| 2002 March 30 | Death | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
