Week 3 - Drinks Round
All these events happened around today’s date, but in what year?
1. Bill Haley and the Comets record ‘Rock Around the Clock.’
2. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to enter outer space.
3. Barbra Streisand is born.
4. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the Pope Benedict XVI.
5. Bernadette Devlin is elected youngest-ever woman MP.
6. Adolf Hitler is born.
7. Federal inspectors declare that the unicorns of the Barnum & Bailey Circus were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.
8. Henry VIII becomes King of England.
9. Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium, a radioactive chemical element.
10. Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the
11. Prince Rainier III of
12. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
These are the years in question:
1509 1889 1902 1942 1954 1956 1961 1969 1983 1985 1990 2005
1 comments:
1. Bill Haley and the Comets record ‘Rock Around the Clock.’ (1954)
2. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to enter outer space. (1961)
3. Barbra Streisand is born. (1942)
4. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the Pope Benedict XVI. (2005)
5. Bernadette Devlin is elected youngest-ever woman MP. (1969)
6. Adolf Hitler is born. (1889)
7. Federal inspectors declare that the unicorns of the Barnum & Bailey Circus were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted. (1985)
8. Henry VIII became King of England. (1509)
9. Pierre Curie and Marie Curie isolate radium, a radioactive chemical element. (1902)
10. Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom. (1983)
11. Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries film actress Grace Kelly in Monaco. (1956)
12. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched. (1990)
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