Guess the Year Quiz (Round 8)

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Below are a series of 3 events from a particular year, but can you work out which? I suggest 2 points for the correct year and 1 point if you're only one year out.

I've repeated the clues below along with the answers.

Clues

1) The world’s tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct, is officially opened.

Actress Millie Bobby Brown and tennis player Coco Gauff were born this year.

Arsenal beat Chelsea to the Premier League title.

2) Janis Joplin dies at the age of 27

Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister after the Conservative party wins the election replacing the Labour government of Harold Wilson.

Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Atlantic in the papyrus boat Ra II

3) The Word processor software soon to be known as Microsoft Word was first released.

Protests from peace campaigners started at RAF Greenham Common as cruise missiles arrived.

£26 million was stolen from the Brink’s-Mat vaults at Heathrow.

4) Margaret Thatcher resigned and was replaced by John Major.

Footballer Joe Allen and actress Emma Watson were born this year.

‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Sinead O’Connor spent 4 weeks at No.1

5) Richard Nixon resigned in August of this year following the ‘Watergate Scandal’

Ceefax was started by the BBC.

West Germany beat The Netherlands 2-1 to win the World Cup

6) Jamaican singer Bob Marley died aged only 36.

A TV audience of 750 million watched the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.

Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years for the murder of John Lennon.

Answers