Bruno Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 All of the following events happened in 1902, lets see what we can all remeber about that landmark year. Which of these events occurred after Hibs last won the Scottish Cup? 1. Cuba achieves independence from America. 2. The London School of Economics opens. 3. The second Boer War comes to an end. 4. Portugal declares itself bankrupt as Angola threatens a revolt. 5. Lord Salisbury retires as Prime Minister. 6. Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US President to ride in a car. 7. Edward VII is crowned. 8. The first young offenders Borstal opens in Borstal, Kent. 9. Cecil Rhodes dies. 10. Glasgow outlaws barmaids, creating huge controversy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmfc_steve Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Here's a list I had.... oops.... just read you're doing a quiz... looks like I gave away the answers to the next 100 questions 1902 .... Boer war ends 1903 .... First flight by the Wright brothers 1904 .... Trans-Siberian Railway Completed 1905 .... Albert Einstein publishes theory of relativity 1906 .... Hearts win scottish cup Hearts 1 Third Lanark 0 1907 .... Old Baily opens 1908 .... W.G. Grace retires from world class cricket 1909 .... Bleriot flys the channel 1910 .... Florence Nightengale Dies 1911 .... Greenwich Mean Time Adopted 1912 .... SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal 1913 .... Suffragette Emily Davidson throws herself under king George Vs horse 1914 .... Hibs defeated in the final celtic 4 hibs 1 1915 .... Battle of gallipoli 1916 .... Rasputin dies 1917 .... Buffalo Bill dies 1918 .... Laurence of arabia leads Arabs into Damascus 1919 .... Charlie Chaplin and co form United Artists 1920 .... Pancho Villa Surrenders 1921 .... Mussolini becomes leader of facists 1922 .... Tomb of Tutankhamun unearthed 1923 .... Hibs defeated in the final Celtic 1 Hibs 0 1924 .... Hibs defeated in the final Airdrie 2 Hibs 0 1925 .... Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf 1926 .... John Logie Baird invents tv 1927 .... BBC Founded 1928 .... Penicillin Discovered 1929 .... Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole 1930 .... Sliced Bread Available 1931 .... Auguste Piccard Reaches StratosphereU.S. Officially Gets National Anthem 1932 .... Scientists Split the Atom 1933 .... Loch Ness Monster First Spotted 1934 .... Mao Zedong Begins the Long March 1935 .... Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws 1936 .... Hoover Dam Completed 1937 .... Golden Gate Bridge Opened 1938 .... Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic 1939 .... Helicopter Invented 1940 .... Battle of Britain 1941 .... Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor 1942 .... T-shirt Introduced 1943 .... Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1944 .... D-Day 1945 .... First Computer Built 1946 .... Bikinis Introduced 1947 .... Hibs defeated in the final Aberdeen 2 Hibs 0 1948 .... "Big Bang" Theory Formulated 1949 .... NATO Established 1950 .... First Modern Credit Card Introduced 1951 .... Color TV Introduced 1952 .... Polio Vaccine Created 1953 .... DNA Discovered 1954 .... Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile 1955 .... Disneyland Opens 1956 .... Hearts win the Scottish Cup Hearts 3 Celtic 1 1957 .... Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age 1958 .... Hibs defeated in the final Clyde 1 Hibs 0 1959 .... Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba 1960 .... Lasers Invented 1961 .... Soviets Launch First Man in Space 1962 .... Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 .... Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech 1964 .... Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison 1965 .... Malcolm X Assassinated 1966 .... Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution 1967 .... First Heart Transplant 1968 .... Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated 1969 .... Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon 1970 .... Aswan High Dam Completed 1971 .... London Bridge Brought to the U.S. 1972 .... Hibs defeated in the final Celtic 6 Hibs 1 1973 .... U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam 1974 .... Terracotta Army Discovered in China 1975 .... Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon 1976 .... Sex Pistols form 1977 .... Elvis Found Dead 1978 .... First Test-Tube Baby Born 1979 .... Hibs defeated in the final Rangers 3 Hibs 2 1980 .... John Lennon Assassinated 1981 .... Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM 1982 .... Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina 1983 .... Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space 1984 .... Miners strike in UK 1985 .... Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika 1986 .... U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station 1987 .... DNA First Used to Convict Criminals 1988 .... Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie 1989 .... Berlin Wall Falls 1990 .... Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space 1991 .... South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws 1992 .... Official End of the Cold War 1993 .... Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially 1994 .... Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France 1995 .... Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated 1996 .... Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain 1997 .... Scientists Clone Sheep 1998 .... Hearts win the Scottish Cup Hearts 2 Rangers 1 1999 .... The Euro the New European Currency 2000 .... 2001 .... Hibs defeated in final Celtic 3 Hibs 0 2002 .... Larsen B Ice shelf in the Antartica collapses 2003 .... Heatwave burns europe over 20,000 die 2004 .... Libya abandons nuclear weapons programme Embarrasing or what Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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