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1950?

Boston Celtics' last NBA championship..

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Mid eighties - I'll say 1985.

Yale's last national football championship.

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1930 's ?
And 1963 was the Great Train Robbery

Value of money taken was less than 2.5 million pounds (Be 30? times that in 2007 with inflation easily) yet this has be exceeded many times since (and not been as famous as this robbery)Google search

Nice to see some old threads back in circulation

Next UP Easy peasy?
Boston Tea Party

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1780?

George Burns dies

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George Burns died in 1996. I remember this because the Mrs. and I had recently met.

Catch-up: Yale was last crowned football champion in 1927 (shared with Illinois). Ivy League schools monopolized the trophy from 1869 through 1900.

New one:

The year the late President Lyndon Johnson died.

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around '72--

Judy Garland dies

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About 1968 (in England) was in secondary school at the time (age 12 or 13)Was splashed all over the papers

"Penny Post" introduced in England

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Not a clue here, but if it was only a penny I am going to guess 1900.

President James Garfield is assassinated

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around 1880..

Jack Nicklaus wins his first major golf tournament

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1960?

Close, Laz - Garfield was assassinated in 1881!

Alxander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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1875?

(good guess, 'fuse--'62)

Bob Feller pitches a no-hitter on Opening Day.

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1946?

Scary close on the phone - invented in 1876.

The League of Nations was formed

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1905?

(1940 for the "no'no", 'fuse..)

John Hinckley shoots President Reagan.

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I believe Reagan was shot the spring after he was inaugurated, in 1981.

League of Nations was formed in 1919.

The United Nations was formed

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around 1940?

Dan Quayle spells "potato" wrong.

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I'll say 1991.

(UN formed in 1945, after the end of WWII)

First issue of Sports Illustrated was published

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1950?

The movie "Brian's Song" appears on TV.

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1971

(SI was first published on August 16, 1954. The cover shows Eddie Matthews swinging at the plate at night in Milwaukee County Stadium.)

Gayle Sayers retires from professional football

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1972

Madonna gives birth to her first child

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no clue, but I'll say around 1999.

Sayers retired ... ta-da ... when Laz said he did, in 1972! That's a lot of beautiful highlight film for only six seasons.

Bonnie and Clyde are gunned down

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