20th Century Events.
 

Famous events that happened in the last century.
Please name them.

ONE GUESS PER POST, NO RETURN UNTIL ANOTHER MEMBER HAS HAD A SHOT....LOL.

Best of luck.

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14 Fleming's discovery of penicillin

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19 Roger Bannister's four minute mile

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31 Reunification of Germany, opening of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

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20 Vietnam War

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32 Christian Barnaard, first heart transplant surgeon

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sorry - 28 vietnam - 29 for four minute mile
(struggle to see the numbers)

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20 Live Aid concert

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8 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

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34 Perestroika, Gorbachev's reforms

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2 Titanic sinking

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haven't a clue, they're all in black and white :)

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12 Louise Brown, first test tube baby

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Sorry Kate, finding a lot of the pics very hard to make out, even when enlarged, also if I enlarge it further with Windows photogallery it just pixellates. As Margaret says the numbers are also hard to make out. I see the original pic is only 36KB - would it be possible to post it in a larger size (ie more KB)?

Sorry to gripe, and it's GREAT to see you back, but I'm really straining to see any more!

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Is there anybody else out there? Helloooooo!

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number 4(hope it hasn't been answered already)6th of August 1945 H Bomb on Hiroshima.

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35 hiv/aids

For some reason it won't let me post that in upper case

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6) Mark David Chapman - Killed John Lennon

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17 Edward VIII abdication broadcast

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25 The conquest of Everest - 1953

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22 Nuremberg Trials

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24 - Francis Crick and James Watson - discovery of the double helix of DNA - 1953

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11. Iranian embassy siege

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1 D day landings

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1) D-Day landings - 6th June 1944

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Not many left.......it's the Margaret x 2 and Susie show!!!!

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We tied on that one Sue(well, no you beat me)...couldn't type it in fast enough

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I don't think there are many more I know....I am struggling to see the pics really. Lamps are a bit dim.

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26 Challenger space shuttle disaster

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That may be my last - I honestly cannot see any more. And Marg P if you could see the doube helix your eyesight is a lot better than mine!

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13. First dog in space?

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Come on Steve - you've got younger eyes than we have!

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5) Flight across the channel 1909 by Louis Bleriot

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I'm flagging a bit now.

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Only just logged on....cos there's sod all on TV, only Lewis!!!!

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30 Miners' strike 1984/5

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Honestly Marg is there a plane in No 5?

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9) auschwitz(I think) no, that's my final answer!

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think so Sue - one of those flimsy bi-planes, you know the ones that look like a good gust of wind would blow 'em to bits.....just watch I'll be way off the mark now I've said that.

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7. Rosa Parks

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I think that is me done......I don't know anymore......or I can't see the pictures well enough to discern.

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You're right Steve but had to look on Google to see that the person in front was a black woman.

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Looked like a bloke to me, I just went off the bus.
Have an idea for 10 but need someone else to guess one.

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Thought number 4 was the A-bomb test on Christmas Island, ? but MargaretP is probably correct.

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You might have a long wait, Steve...

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Well, I have screwed my eyes up and looked at number 10 and it is.............haven't got any idea....except it looks like an aircraft carrier, but that is boys stuff.

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It's a longshot but....
10. looks a bit like a battleship so Bismarck or Graf Spee?

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Oh Cashy, Now I am doubting myself...had forgotten about the Christmas Island bomb.

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I thought it was an aircraft carrier, but I'm going back for another look.

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Could be, but it looks like it's sinking to me.

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Steve think your second guess could be right....I'm not naming it so that you can confirm it

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Yes, well your young eyes can see what mine old ones can't....all I can really make out is the conning tower...is that the right name(or is that only on a submarine)?? do they call them bulkheads on ships......I know nothing of maritime matters.

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It might be the Belgrano (Fauklands war)

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Yep, think you're right.

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Nr.5 The Wright Brothers - First powered flight.

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Oh Bother! I hadn't thought of that one either....the channel flight was the first that came into my mind.
I can see my score shrinking by the minute - yes....I do know it is only a game:).

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This is only a game in the same way that Lad was only a cat... in it to win it!:rolleyes:

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Nr.18 Kuwaiti oilfields ablaze - Gulf war 1991.

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3. The Jarrow March?

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The hardest part of this quiz, is trying to see what answers have already been given.

In amongst all the chit-chat.

:D:p:D

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Nr.15 Chernobyl Nuclear plant - April 1986.

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9 Holocaust Auschwitz

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1 view from a Tank Landing Craft june 6th 44.
9 Austwich or Belsen
10 Belgrano, can just make out one of the life boats.
18 Battle Tank.
33 Wild Bill Hickock
To eck wi thi rules Medusa, mek thi pictures a bit clearer.

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Spitting Feathers ... was just doing list and lost it ... grrr.

Basically, what's left is:

4, 11,16 (this not very clear, may put another image up), 19, 21, 23,27,33.

Sorry re. quality ... even if I try to enlarge through Paint Shop ....it doesn't make any difference.

Best way is to enlarge as instructed, then enlarge again by pressing Ctrl and turning the wheel on your mouse away from you, or using the tools option.

Off to put the list in word, so only need to copy/paste >>>>>>>>

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Grumble, grumble, grumble .... :p
Look at No. 27 ... should be easy one for you.

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27) WW1 - troops from both sides of the conflict playing football on Christmas day

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So is my number 4 wrong Kate?

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Correct .. well done !

Yes. Ok, so one atom bomb looks like another...:D

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Mine must be wrong also?:confused:

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It was one that I couldn't quite make out, but once you had said Retlaw should know it...well, that clinched it.

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Thanks Kate, that does give a much clearer enlarged pic than the one I was getting. Didn't know you could do that with Ctrl/mouse wheel.

So 4 is not Bikini either?

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4 is first atomic bomb test Alamogordo New Mexico 1945

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Looks like sum Sowjers tu me, they cud be onyweir, oo cun tell.
Mek thi pictchurs soes wi con see em reight.

Grumpy

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19 Russian revolution

OOps sorry should I have waited for someone to make another guess rather than Retlaw's moaning!

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Come on someone - I've got another one!

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Which ones are left to get?

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Steve - go back to post 64 and read from there

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16 is someone's funeral - Churchill (1965) possibly

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Nr.11 Palestinian terrorist take Israeli athletes hostage - Munich massacre 1972 Olympics Germany.

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21 Marconi, invention of wireless

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Halfway there Margaret - guess again...

So that leaves 23 and 33.

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If not Churchill, it is GeorgeVI in 1952

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No much more recent - don't let the B/W pic fool you.

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16 Diana's funeral

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I'm stumped - but 33. looks older than the 20th century.

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Nr.23 Chinese mourning Mao - September 1976

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33 Bronco Bill died circa 1933

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Yes agree but could be very early C20.

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He sorta' would be, but think about it.

Sucks in spit ... not quite. Feel like giving you a point for recognising the eye shape...:)

23 and 33 then !

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23 could be the death of Kim Il Sung and/or greeting his son as his successor

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Nope.
Still 23 and 33 up for grabs.

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33. Is the Great Train Robbery (1903)

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Well, I have looked at both of these numerous times.......haven't a clue.
I'm all quizzed out.

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Again Nr.23 Vietnamese mourning Uncle Ho (Ho Chi Min) - September 1969.

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Wow Steve I'm impressed. How on earth did you get that?

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By putting into Google every "Wild West" type person/event I could think of.
It took a while.

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Well done - I'd never heard of it!

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It's also the title of a song by the well known American rock band Mountain.

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Aha all becomes clear... never heard of them either! ;):rolleyes:

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You'll probably have heard one of their songs - "Nantucket Sleighride", the instrumental bit was used as the theme tune of Weekend World from the 70's/80's......that's a proper piece of trivia for ya!!!