CHROKNOWLEDGEY

RANGING from the year 1901 to 2000, can you place these ten events into the correct decades? Each decade starts with the year ending ‘1’ and ends with the year ending ‘0’ (i.e. 1901-1910) and there is one event per decade. SOLUTION ON MONDAY

AEGYPTIAN forces cross ceasefire lines along the Suez Canal, launching a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

BFOLLOWING the assault of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department, riots erupt across the city.

CARGENTINA’S military government invade the Falkland Islands, triggering a ten-week war with the UK.

DAFTER leading a failed coup referred to as the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison.

ENEW Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to summit Mount Everest.

FON A sunny Sunday morning outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, protesters appeal to the tsar in a march that turns bloody.

GCONCEPTUAL artist Marcel Duchamp submits a urinal signed ‘R. Mutt’ to the American Society of

Independent Artists in a disruptive move to the art establishment.

HTHE Empire State Building is completed and becomes the tallest building in the world, it retains this status for a subsequent 40 years.

IPOTENTIALLY catastrophic nuclear warfare between the U.S. and USSR over the deployment of missiles in Cuba is narrowly avoided.

JBRITISH India is divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan.