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Round 7 Answers:

1 Nuremberg Trials for WWII war crimes, November 1945 - October 1946, Nuremberg, Germany
2 Halle Berry becomes the first African American woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress, 2002 USA
3 Code written in the back of a book of poetry by Omar Khayyam, part of the mysterious unsolved Taman Shud case, 1 December 1948, Adelaide, Australia
4 Natascha Kampusch escapes secret cellar she was held in by Wolfgang Přiklopil for eight years on 23rd August 2006, Vienna, Austria
5 Arrest of Sirhan Sirhan after he assassinated Robert F. Kennedy on the 5th of June 1968, Los Angeles, USA
6 Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Yugoslav forces expel hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians from Kosovo in May 1999
7 Ten Commandments in Greek and Old Hebrew found carved onto a rock in Los Lunas, New Mexico, USA, 1933
8 George Bush being informed of 9/11 attacks, 11th September 2001, Sarasota, Florida, USA
9 Samantha Smith visits Moscow after writing a letter to Yuri Andropov asking if there will be a war between the USA and USSR, thaws Cold War, USSR July 1983
10 Slobodan Milosevic makes his first appearance at the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, July 3 2001, Netherlands
11 Vesna Vulović, a 22 year old flight attendant, survives bomb blast on a flight and sets Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute, 26 January 1972 Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
12 Aral Sea disaster, the Aral Sea shrinks as a result of USSR irrigation canals, Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan, 1960s-ongoing
13 Rwandan man cleaning a mass grave of bodies from the Rwandan genocide outside the church in Nyanza on April 4th 2004, Nyanza, Rwanda.
14 Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in April 1956, Monaco
15 Pablo Picasso draws a centaur in the air with a "light pen" in France, 1949.
16 Baltic Way/Baltic Chain, approx two million people held hands between Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to demonstrate against the USSR, 23rd August 1989
17 Pine swastika formation discovered by a pilot, flying over Zernikow in 1992, Germany
18 Hurricane Andrew hits the southeast coast of Florida on August 24, 1992, Florida, USA
19 Ajka alumina red sludge spill, environmental disaster October 2010, Hungary
20 German pornstar Sexy Cora dies during a sixth breast enlargement surgery due to medical malpractice, 20 January 2011 in Germany
21 Gas pipeline explosion in Lagos on December 26th 2006, Lagos, Nigeria
22 A fishing boat catches the world's biggest known colossal squid, weighing 990 pounds, February 2007, New Zealand
23 Vicky Pelaez (among others) is exposed as a Russian sleeper agent, part of the Illegals Program, on June 27 2010 in New York, USA
24 Robbie Fowler celebrates scoring a goal by pretending to snort a line of cocaine using the white line of the penalty area (Liverpool vs Everton), April 1999
25 Banda Aceh after the Boxing Day Tsunami in December 2004, Indonesia
26 Mirny diamond mine is shut down in June 2001, Mirny, Russia
27 Sudanese Famine, child crawls towards UN food camp located a kilometer away in 1993, Sudan
28 Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu are executed by a firing squad on December 25, 1989, Târgoviște, Romania
29 Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech, 28th of August 1963 in Washington D.C., USA
30 Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula) refugee from Afghanistan, 1984 Pakistan
31 School siege in Beslan, North Ossetia in Russia, September 2004
32 Thich Quang Duc's self immolation in Saigon, 11 June 1963, South Vietnam
33 Beheading of Polish engineer Piotr Stańczak in Pakistan, 7th February 2009
34 Piper Alpha explosion 6 July 1988, North Sea/UK
35 Jeanne Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan, dies aged 122 on the 4 August 1997, Arles, France
36 Mourners surround the ambulance carrying Benazir Bhutto's body during her funeral procession in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh near Naudero on December 28 2007, Pakistan
37 Palestinian terrorist looking out from a balcony during the Munich Massacre at the Olympics in 1972, Munich, Germany
38 Margaret Thatcher leaving Downing Street for the last time as Prime Minister, November 1990
39 Francesca Anobile dies in a horrific sledging accident in February 2009, in Rotherham, UK
40 Hong Kong handover ceremony, as Hong Kong is returned to Chinese rule, on 30th June, 1997, Hong Kong (China)
41 Concerned parents at the scene of the Dunblane Massacre on the 13th of March 1996, Scotland
42 Nepalese riot policemen beating pro-democracy activists who were protesting against King Gyanendra in Kathmandu April 22nd 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal
43 Thylacines go extinct, last living one called Benjamin dies on 7 September 1936, Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
44 Piping pseudokarst appears in Guatemala City in May 2010, Guatemala
45 Tsunami hits the east coast of Japan in a chain of events that also included an earthquake and a narrowly averted nuclear disaster, 11 March 2011, Tōhoku, Japan
46 Josef Fritzl's secret basement where he kept his daughter Elisabeth prisoner for 24 years - her ordeal ended in Amstetten, Austria, 2008
47 Nine kings at Windsor Castle on the 20th of May 1910, UK (Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, King George I of The Hellenes (Greece) and King Albert I of the Belgians (Belgium). Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King-Emperor George V of the Great Britain and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.)
48 Goran Ivanišević wins Wimbledon as a wildcard, the only person to ever do so, 2001, UK
49 Günter Schabowski accidentally opens the Berlin Wall, 9th November 1989, East Germany
50 Omayra Sánchez Garzón dies after being pinned by debris in the aftermath of the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz on November 16 1985 in Armero, Colombia