Can you name the year of each of these actual newspaper headlines (20th century only)?

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  • Source: New York Times Article Archive
  • Each year of the 20th century will only be used ONCE.
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HeadlineYear
Communists Take Over Saigon
Opening of Service; About 10,000 Words Sent Between Nova Scotia and Ireland
Eisenhower Heads Allied Staff;Land, Air, Sea Chiefs To Serve Under Eisenhower
Ferraro is Chosen by Mondale as Running Mate, First Woman on Major Ticket
Assassin Kills Kennedy: Lyndon Johnson Sworn In
Hawaii Becomes the 50th State; New Flag Shown
Mandela is Named President, Closing the Era of Apartheid
Harry Houdini Dies After Operations: Loses Fight For Life in Detroit Hospital
Capone Convicted of Dodging Taxes; May Get 17 Years
Government Clears the Way for Quantity Production of Salk Preventive
3rd Planet Found in Modern Times; Others, Uranus and Neptune
China Resumes Control of Hong Kong, Concluding 156 Years of British Rule
Oahu Bombed by Japanese Planes
4 U.S. Agents Killed in Texas Shootout with Cult
Jackson Wins Easily in Michigan in Surprising Setback to Dukakis
Unknowns of World War II and Korea Are Enshrined
Amid Splendor, Charles Weds Diana
US is Voted Dry
Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet
President Starts Recovery Program
Mark Twain is Dead at 74
Atom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die
White Star Liner Strikes Iceberg on Maiden Trip
Lenin Dies of Cerebral Hemorrhage; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief
Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months
Truman Orders U.S. Air, Navy Units to Fight In Aid Of Korea
Martin Luther King Wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Stalingrad Halts Hard Nazi Attacks; Red Army Takes Strong Points from Germans
President Leaves on Trip to China
Men Walk on Moon
Scopes Guilty, Fined $100
Dillinger Slain in Chicago; Shot Dead by Federal Men in Front of Movie Theatre
Two Germanys Unite After 45 Years with Jubilation and a Vow of Peace
Nixon Resigns
HeadlineYear
Kennedy Orders Blockade of Cuba
High Court Puts New Curb On Powers of the Police to Interrogate Suspects
Chernenko is Dead in Moscow at 73; Gorbachev Succeeds Him
At Least 31 Are Dead, Scores Are Missing After Bomb Attack in Oklahoma City
Radio Fake Scares Nation
Largest U.S. Tanker Spill Spews 270,000 Barrels of Oil off Alaska
Lindbergh Does It!
Our Subway Opens, 150,000 Try It
Dewey Defeats Truman
Inventors of North Carolina Box Kite Machine Want Government to Purchase It
U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad in Olympic Hockey by 4-3
Maris Hits 61st in Final Game
High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply
German Army Attacks Poland
Death Captures Crown of Rock and Roll
Nation and Millions in City Joyously Hail Bicentennial
Wall Street Lays an Egg
Hoover Odds 5 to 1 on Eve of Election
Suffrage Amendment is Ratified
Hitler Dead
Dentist, Close to Death, Receives First Permanent Artificial Heart
Scott Dies After Finding Pole
Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy and Hold Hostages
Democrats Assert Reagan is Using ‘Star Wars’ Scare to Hide Blunders
Violence Erupts After Assassination of King
Kennedy and Nixon Clash in TV Debate
President Roosevelt Greets Free Cuba
Truce Is Signed, Ending the Fighting In Korea
Galveston in Ruins: Estimates of Dead in Thousands
Hindenburg Burns in Lakehurst Crash
4000 Ships Carry Troops to Coast of France
The Shuttle Explodes
Electronic Computer Flashes Answers, May Speed Engineering
Manson and 3 Women Found Guilty; State to Ask Death Penalty
HeadlineYear
North Atlantic Pact Erases Last Marks of Isolationism
Reds’ Night Game Draws 25,000 Fans; First Under Lights in Major Leagues
Power Failure Imperils Astronauts
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped From Home
100,000 Hail Hitler; U.S. Athletes Avoid Nazi Salute to Him
Budapest Protest Grew Into War; Battle for Hungary Remains in Doubt
3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire
U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W.
Work Begins on Yankee Stadium; No Ceremony to Mark First Step in Construction
Guyana Official Reports 300 Dead At Religious Sect's Jungle Temple
Landslide for Ike!
Fatal Fall of Wright Airship; Lieut. Selfridge Killed and Orville Wright Hurt
Paris Falls: City Quiet as Nazis Enter
Dodgers Purchase Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball
Malcolm Knew He Was a 'Marked Man'
Lusitania Topedoed!
Soviet Fires Earth Satellite into Space
Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed
Russia and Japan Accept Roosevelt’s Suggestion
Drastic Measures Everywhere to Curb Flu
Wilson Asks for War Action
Italians Guilty in Murder;Jury to Deal With Them as if They Were Americans
Clinton, at U.N., Signs Treaty Banning All Nuclear Testing
Martial Law Declared in Sarajevo: Heir to Throne Assassinated
President Shot at Buffalo Fair
Clinton Emphatically Denies an Affair With Ex-Intern
2 Students in Colorado School Said to Gun Down as Many as 23
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating
President Harding Dies Suddenly
Taft Impressed Audience; Breaking of Tradition Added to the Inauguration
Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins
Shark Kills 2 Bathers, Maims 1, Near New York
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100 Years ... 100 Headlines Quiz

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