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Bonus puzzle #11 answers
Starting event: High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnemann, is released (1952)
The full timeline
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1042Politics
Constantine IX Monomachos is crowned as Byzantine Emperor, one day after his marriage to Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita
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1292
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1473
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1756Birth
William Godwin, English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, is born
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1787
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1810War
May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence
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1857Disaster
An earthquake registering 7.9 Mw ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California
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1861
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1862War
American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat
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1913
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1923
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1928Transport
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic)
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1941Business
Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post
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1952
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1963Books
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the tenth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series, was released in the United Kingdom
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1965Music
The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock
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1977
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1999
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2001
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2012
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2016