| What happened? | Prime Minister? | When? |
| The Titanic sinks | |
| England wins football World Cup | |
| World War One ends | |
| Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations | |
| The battle of Rorke's Drift | |
| Princess Diana dies | |
| Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize | |
| Fred Perry's third Wimbledon win | |
| John F Kennedy is killed | |
| | What happened? | Prime Minister? | When? |
| Berlin Wall falls | |
| Large Hadron Collider launches | |
| Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima | |
| Man Utd players killed in Munich Air Disaster | |
| Charles Manson convicted of murder | |
| US declares independence | |
| Star Wars changes cinema forever | |
| Britain invades Egypt in Suez Crisis | |
| UK-to-France Channel Tunnel opens | |
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