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1. About 60,000 (57,470)

The official figure is 57,470 British casualties, of whom about 19,240 were killed. It remains the bloodiest single day in the history of the British Army.

2. Dominion Day

3. Chris Patten

4. Park House, on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk

5. William III (William of Orange); 12 July

The battle took place on 1 July 1690 under the Julian calendar, which was still used in Britain and Ireland. The 11-day shift when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752 helps explain why it is marked on 12 July, though the "Twelfth" also absorbed the anniversary of the Battle of Aughrim (12 July 1691, Julian).

6. Pennsylvania; Pickett's Charge

7. Donald Dewar

The Parliament first met on 12 May 1999, and Dewar was elected First Minister that month. The Queen formally opened it on 1 July 1999, when it took on its full legislative powers.

8. Smoking

9. Sony; the Walkman

10. L'Auto

The newspaper later became L'Équipe. The first race was won by Maurice Garin. The yellow jersey itself was not introduced until 1919.

11. Alfred Russel Wallace

12. Rwanda and Burundi

13. The 28th

14. The Warsaw Pact

15. The International Criminal Court, in The Hague

16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Leibniz was born on 1 July 1646 by the Gregorian calendar (21 June by the Julian calendar then still used in Protestant Saxony), so some sources give the earlier date.

17. Louis Blériot; 1909

18. Debbie Harry; Blondie

19. Vito Corleone in "The Godfather"

20. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine