CHROKNOWLEDGEY

RANGING from 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). There is one event per decade.

A POOR crowd management at an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough Stadium leads to a human crush that leaves 96 dead.

B THE Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, specialising in punched-card tabulators and accounting machines, is incorporated in New York and goes on to become IBM 13 years later.

C AFTER a decade of fast economic growth, the Wall Street Crash marks the beginning of the Great Depression. D APPROXIMATELY half a million people gather on a dairy farm in Upstate New York to attend Woodstock music festival.

E THE first International Space Station module is launched and the assembly of the orbiting laboratory starts.

F THE Hawker Hurricane, the RAF’s first single-seater monoplane fighter aircraft, enters production a year after making its first flight.

G IN THE United Kingdom a decimalised currency in which 100 new pennies are equal to a pound becomes official, on what is referred to as ‘Decimal Day’. H APARTHEID, the Afrikaans word for ‘apartness’, commences in South Africa following the election of the National Party. I SIR ANTHONY EDEN begins a brief stint as Prime Minister following the resignation of Winston Churchill. JTHE Wright brothers develop the original Wright Flyer, the world’s first powered airplane.