How Good Is Your History Knowledge? (Completed)
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:56 pm
Below are 30 key historical events that happened between the years 1950 & 1979. In front of each event, simply put the question "In which year did ........... ?" & see if you can work out the year?
The events are not in any particular chronological order & each year is only used once.
1. Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb - 1957 (jagwheels)
2. US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics - 1972 (memory man)
3. 18 year old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzeneggar becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World & Mr Universe) - 1965 (memory man)
4. Duel, about a motorist terriorised by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood - 1971 (AndrewA)
5. 18 year old pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It - 1958 (PhotoLady)
6. US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9mts that will stand for 23 years - 1968 (Miyagi)
7. The Conservatives under Winston Churchill win the general election - 1951 (AndrewA)
8. Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state - 1973 (jen)
9. France vetoes Britain's entry to the European Common Market - 1963 (AndrewA)
10. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all 3 US charts - 1956 (memory man)
11. George Lucas writes and directs a science fiction fantasy, Star Wars - 1977 (Miyagi)
12. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight - 1969 (AndrewA)
13. School friends Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded a software firm, calling it Microsoft - 1975 (AndrewA)
14. World's first test-tube baby is born in Oldham - 1978 (jen)
15. Commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast - 1953 (jen)
16. Cyprus becomes an independent nation, free of British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios as president - 1960 (PhotoLady)
17. Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba - 1959 (Cactuslil)
18. Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles - 1962 (AndrewA)
19. The Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon - 1976 (Cactuslil)
20. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia - 1970 (AndrewA)
21. British film stars Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) - 1964 (jen)
22. British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt - 1966 (jwade)
23. The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - 1967 (memory man)
24. The Global Commission for the Eradication of Small Pox announces that the world is free of the disease - 1979 (jen)
25. C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - 1950 (jwade)
26. Watson & Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA - 1953 (memory man)
27. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to travel in space, orbiting the earth once in Vostok 1 - 1961 (memory man)
28. Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI - 1952 (jen)
29. More than 7,000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi- 1974 (jen)
30. Baseball star Joe Dimaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, but the marriage only lasts a year - 1954 (jen)
Shane
The events are not in any particular chronological order & each year is only used once.
1. Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb - 1957 (jagwheels)
2. US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics - 1972 (memory man)
3. 18 year old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzeneggar becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World & Mr Universe) - 1965 (memory man)
4. Duel, about a motorist terriorised by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood - 1971 (AndrewA)
5. 18 year old pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It - 1958 (PhotoLady)
6. US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9mts that will stand for 23 years - 1968 (Miyagi)
7. The Conservatives under Winston Churchill win the general election - 1951 (AndrewA)
8. Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state - 1973 (jen)
9. France vetoes Britain's entry to the European Common Market - 1963 (AndrewA)
10. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all 3 US charts - 1956 (memory man)
11. George Lucas writes and directs a science fiction fantasy, Star Wars - 1977 (Miyagi)
12. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight - 1969 (AndrewA)
13. School friends Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded a software firm, calling it Microsoft - 1975 (AndrewA)
14. World's first test-tube baby is born in Oldham - 1978 (jen)
15. Commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast - 1953 (jen)
16. Cyprus becomes an independent nation, free of British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios as president - 1960 (PhotoLady)
17. Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba - 1959 (Cactuslil)
18. Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles - 1962 (AndrewA)
19. The Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon - 1976 (Cactuslil)
20. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia - 1970 (AndrewA)
21. British film stars Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) - 1964 (jen)
22. British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt - 1966 (jwade)
23. The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - 1967 (memory man)
24. The Global Commission for the Eradication of Small Pox announces that the world is free of the disease - 1979 (jen)
25. C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - 1950 (jwade)
26. Watson & Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA - 1953 (memory man)
27. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to travel in space, orbiting the earth once in Vostok 1 - 1961 (memory man)
28. Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI - 1952 (jen)
29. More than 7,000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi- 1974 (jen)
30. Baseball star Joe Dimaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, but the marriage only lasts a year - 1954 (jen)
Shane
