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I worked as a journalist for 40 years.

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I'm retired now, but for me, these are some of the most important events of the 20th century.

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The first big event that I remember was the end of the Second World War.

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The Second World War started in 1939 and ended in June 1945.

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it ended there were street parties in almost every town and city in London

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everybody went out onto the streets to celebrate in 1963 one sad event shocked

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me and the whole world it was on November the 22nd in 1963 that was the

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day that Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F Kennedy in Dallas Texas but the 1960s

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was generally a good and happy time the hippie revolution began in 1960s and

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people called the summer of 1967 the summer of love another historic event

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from the 60s was the day a man first walked on the moon it was 1969 Neil

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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.

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Another very sad event happened in the USA, but this time it didn't happen in Texas,

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and the victim wasn't a politician.

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On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon outside his apartment near Central

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Park in New York.

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When I was young, I loved the Beatles.

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It seemed to me that part of my youth died that day.

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Finally, the last event of the century on the last day of the century, the 31st of December, 1999.

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There were millennium celebrations all over the world.

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In London, there was a fantastic atmosphere. It was like the end of the war.