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Ranging from the year 2001 to 2010, can you place the following ten events into the correct year? There is one event per year.

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AA

26-YEAR civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers draws to a sombre end in which the massacre of resistance fighters is controvers­ially authorised by the government. BASH

emitted from volcanoes in Iceland causes substantia­l disruption to northern and western European air traffic for six days. CBrazilian

Jean Charles de Menezes is misidentif­ied as a possible terrorist by the Met Police and shot seven times in the head at a London Tube station.

DA

MAN dressed in a Batman costume scales Buckingham Palace protesting for greater custodial rights for separated fathers. EAS PART of a crushing defeat of the ruling party Fatah, Hamas secure a victory in the Palestinia­n parliament­ary election. FTWO bombs are detonated in popular nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people — mainly foreign tourists. GDESPITE a campaign marred by suggestion­s he had used anabolic steroids when he was a bodybuilde­r, and allegation­s of sexual misconduct, Arnold

Schwarzene­gger (pictured) is elected governor of California. HELISABETH

FRITZL is rescued from a basement in which she had been held captive by her father for 24 years and given birth to seven children by him. ISOUTH

Africa defeat England in the Rugby World Cup final at the Stade de France in Paris, making them the second country to win twice. JENRON

Corporatio­n goes bankrupt due to a monumental audit failure. This leads to the SarbanesOx­ley Act, with penalties for the manipulati­on of financial records.

2001: J 2002: F 2003: G 2004: D 2005: C 2006: E 2007: I 2008: H 2009: A 2010: B

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