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07 Apr 1739      Dick Turpin was executed for horse stealing.
07 Apr 1906      Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastates Naples.
07 Apr 1968      Two-time F1 World Champion Jim Clark died in an accident during a F2 race in Hockenheim.
07 Apr 1986      Sir Clive Sinclair sold the rights to his machines to Amstrad in a £5m deal.
07 Apr 2001      NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
07 Apr 2014      Microsoft announced the Windows XP has reached the end of its life and will no longer be supported.

08 Apr 1955      Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister because of failing health.
08 Apr 1943      The NFL made helmets mandatory.
08 Apr 1973      Pablo Picasso died.
08 Apr 1986      Clint Eastwood was voted in as mayor of Carmel in California.
08 Apr 1990      ‘Twin Peaks’ made its TV premiere.
08 Apr 1994      Kurt Cobain died.
08 Apr 2013      Margaret Thatcher died.

09 Apr 1957      The Suez Canal reopened to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
09 Apr 1967      The first Boeing 737 made its maiden flight.
09 Apr 1969      The first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

09 Apr 2005      Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles in a civil ceremony in Windsor.
09 Apr 2012      ‘The Lion King’ became the highest grossing Broadway show, passing ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.
09 Apr 2012      Marc Anthony filed for divorce from Jennifer Lopez.
09 Apr 2021      Prince Philip died.

10 Apr 1858      Big Ben, the 13.76 tonne bell, was recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
10 Apr 1896      Spyridon Louis won the marathon at the 1896 Olympic Games.
10 Apr 1912      RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden and only voyage.
10 Apr 1925      The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald was published.
10 Apr 1970      Paul McCartney announced he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
10 Apr 1998      The Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland.

11 Apr 1966      Frank Sinatra recorded ‘Strangers in the Night’.

11 Apr 1970      Apollo 13 was launched.

11 Apr 1976      The Apple computer I was created.

11 Apr 1990      Customs seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun bound for Iraq.

12 Apr 1606      The Union Flag was adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
12 Apr 1937      Sir Frank Whittle ground-tested the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft.
12 Apr 1954      Bill Haley and the Comets recorded ‘Rock Around The Clock’.
12 Apr 1961      Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
12 Apr 1981      The first launch of a Space Shuttle, (Columbia) on mission STS-1.
12 Apr 1992      The Euro Disney Resort in Paris officially opened. (later named Disneyland Paris)

13 Apr 1964      New Zealander Colin Bosher sheared a record 565 sheep in 1 work day.
13 Apr 1970      An explosion onboard Apollo 13, prompted the line “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here”.
13 Apr 1992      Nelson Mandela announced he will seek divorce from Winnie Madikizela.
13 Apr 1992      Neil Kinnock resigned as Labour Party leader.
13 Apr 1997      21 year old Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
13 Apr 2023      Mary Quant died.

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Here’s one that made me laugh but didn’t  make it onto this week’s quizzes and was left on the cutting room floor. (answer on the pdf download)

How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?