40 Years of Headlines
1973 – Mobile Phoney? Martin Cooper invents the first portable mobile phone
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1974 – Watergate scandal. Nixon “impeaches” himself by resigning
Tricky-dicky
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1976 – First Bite of the Apple. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple
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1977 – Light Speed. Star Wars becomes highest grossing film franchise in history
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1978 – Grave Error. A laughable attempt is made to steal Charles Chaplin’s coffin. It is recovered 15km away
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Maggie Thatcher: Milk snatcher?
1979 – Dawning of a New Era. Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister
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1980 – Let It Not Be. John Lennon shot dead
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1982 – Heartfelt Recovery. First permanent artifical heart implanted in a human
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1983 – Any space for women on the shuttle? Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
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1984 – Off The Wall results! MJ wins record of The Year for “Beat It” and Album of The Year for “Thriller” at Grammys
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1986 – Clouded Judgement: Cloud of Judgement. Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
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1989 – Chinese get Square. Tiananmen Square flooded with students in a pro-democracy protest
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1990 – Another Brick Out of the Wall. The Berlin Wall finally falls. East and West Germany are united
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1994 – I-rish this happened sooner. IRA declares ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
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1996 – Bull-ied by the hype? Britain panics about Mad Cow Disease
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1997 – Titanic Success! Titanic released in theatres and becomes highest grossing film in history at the time.
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1999 – Worst Y2Case Scenario? Y2K bug panic spreads round the world on New Years Eve.
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2003 – Hussein We Can’t Get Anything Done? Saddam Hussein apprehended by the U.S military
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2007 – Browning Street. Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as prime minister 
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2008 – Van Goght away… 3 Men in ski masks steal 4 paintings worth a total of $163 million from the Zurich Museum in broad daylight.
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2009 – Obama Self in the History books. President Barack Obama is sworn in as the first Black president in history
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2010 – “Oil Fix it I Swear”. An explosion on a BP oil rig releases an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per hour into the Atlantic Ocean.
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2011 – No mar Gaddafi. Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi killed by rebel troops in Surt
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2012 – Lon-done with the Olympics. The offical closing ceremony marks an end to the London Summer Olympics
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Header Image Courtesy of: facebook.com/theboar & Nicole Davis
Body images courtesy of: Flickr.com/cliff1066, Flickr.com/ rollingstone64, Flickr.com/ Luiz Fernando / Sonia Maria, Flickr.com/Downing Street, Flickr.com/ Ethan Bloch & Flickr.com/ P-C_W
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