Quiz: guess the year

1

United States President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented visit to the People’s Republic of China and meets with Mao

Zedong. The RMS Queen

Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in

Hong Kong harbour. 3

Concorde takes its final flight. Portuguese soccer sensation Cristiano Ronaldo makes his Premier

League debut for Manchester

United at the age of 18. China

launches Shenzhou 5, its first

manned space mission.

Britain abolishes the death penalty and buries Winston

Churchill. Malcolm X is assassinated. Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston. The

Rolling stones release

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”. 7

Jack the Ripper terrorises London, killing at least five women and mutilating their bodies.

The first patent for a ballpoint pen

is granted. The National Geographic

Society is founded.

Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine

is declared safe and effective. The Mickey Mouse

Club debuts on American television. The USS Nautilus becomes the first operational

nuclear powered submarine. 2

Ninety-five million viewers watch O.J. Simpson drive along Los Angeles freeways in history’s most

exciting low-speed chase.

Kurt Cobain kills himself.

The sitcom Friends debuts.

British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his team

reach the South Pole to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen has beaten them

to it. RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss

of more than 1,500 lives. 6

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears. Scotland votes to remain part of the United Kingdom.

Gangnam Style reaches 2 billion

views on YouTube. George Clooney

marries Amal Alamuddin.

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated. The

original Apple Macintosh personal computer goes on sale.

Britain and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to China. 10

Michael Jackson dies in strange circumstances. Russia shuts off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. US Airways Flight 1549, piloted by

Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger,

makes a successful crash landing in New

York’s Hudson River after being struck by a

flock of Canada geese soon after take-off.