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2023
WHO announced that COVID-19 was now sufficiently under control to lift the maximum alert level after more than three years of a pandemic that has claimed “at least 20 million” lives.
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2021
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2018
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2016
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1971
“Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast.
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1969
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1962
West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks.
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1961
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1956
Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ became his first million-seller, and was the best-selling single of 1956.
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1922
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1921
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1904
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1821
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1494
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