All of the events below took place on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
Match the years to the events below
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1524 1998 1966 1926 1991
1.Hirohito becomes the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Emperor Taisho.
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2. Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, who discovered a sea route around Africa to India, dies in Cochin, India.
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3.King Idris I declares Libya independent from Italy
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4.Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR, which ceased to exist that same day, ending seven-and-a-half decades of Communist rule.
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5.William the Conqueror, sitting at his Christmas court at Gloucester, orders the compilation of The Domesday Book to show what taxes are due to him.
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6.William Burke, one half of the famous Burke and Hare body snatching partnership, goes on trial in Edinburgh after Hare turns Kings evidence against him.
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7.Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand give up their attempt to make the first non-stop round the world balloon flight due to unfavourable winds and ditch in the ocean off the coast of Hawaii.
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8.An agreement is signed in Belgium between Great Britain and the United States to end the war between the two countries, restoring the pre war status quo in a document called “the Treaty of Ghent”.
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9.Charlemagne is crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III.
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10.The Soviet research craft, Luna 13, makes a successful landing on the surface of the moon.
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Answers
1. 1926
2. 1524
3. 1951
4. 1991
5. 1085
6. 1828
7. 1998
8. 1814
9. 800
10. 1966
