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In what years did the following events occur?
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Last updated: September 20, 2017
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year
Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
1969
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
1994
Prince dies, aged 57
2016
Queen Victoria dies, aged 81
1901
The Korean War ends (though technically the war continues to this day)
1953
ABBA wins the Eurovision song contest with Waterloo, their first #1 hit
1974
India becomes an independent country, on 15 August
1947
Women get the vote in New Zealand, the first in the world to do so
1893
Britain evacuates 330,000 soldiers fron Dunkirk
1940
USSR invades Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring
1968
Panama Canal is opened
1914
Iraq annexes Kuwait, declaring it to be Iraq's 19th province
1990
Hundreds killed in pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square
1989
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls from 299 to 230 in just 2 days
1929
Athens hosts the first modern summer Olympic Games
1896
Chamonix, in France, hosts the first Winter Olympics
1924
Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, remaining in office until 1990
1979
Evita is performed for the first time, in London's West End
1978
UK's Roger Bannister runs the first sub-4 minute mile
1954
Canada celebrates its 150th birthday
2017
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