On the day of the white bronco chase, I was in Florida, and I was sitting in a cold bath, attempting to recover from a terrible case of sunstroke/burn. My companions were watching the live feed and shouting through to me "You'll never believe what's happening!"
the end of apartheid is kind of a grey area. it was in 1991 when they actually announced all the apartheid laws were abolished. there wasnt any racial segregation after that. 1994 was when south africa had its first democratic elections and the government changed to ANC. i live in south africa
Brown vs. board of education and first super bowl - NO idea (those might not be globally significant like other events here - ehm.. yeah OJS, that's not global either, but..). The rest was guessable within the time because had some sense of the decade at least if not exact year. Nice quiz though.
For the first many years of the World Cup it was almost all Europe and a handful of South American countries really competing. As usual, when a European says "the world" they mean Europe. Because it was relevant to you doesn't mean it's relevant to the entire world, or more relevant than something that happened somewhere else in the world. The United States is part of the world, too.
These days, both the Super Bowl and the World Cup have become much larger than they used to be. But the World Cup has grown more. The World Cup final averages 5x as many viewers as the Super Bowl. But it wasn't that way in 1930.
'The Beatles play Shea Stadium' is also a US-centric event that is irrelevant to the rest of the world - nobody outside the US cares when they first toured the US
The euro wasnt a valid (physical) currency untill 2002, before that it didnt exist, it was not in circulation. The years before it was already used in accountancy/stock exchange as an abstract term, because at that point they had decided the value the currency would become. But it was just a word and not introduced to the public. (or else you could say 1995, because that was when they finally decided on the name euro)
What happened in 1999 was simply the replacement of the term Ecu (european currency unit) in the "books" for Euro. The ecu wasnt real currency and neither was the euro in 1999. It didnt truly exist until 2002.
It has been a long process which you could say started in 1975 (when the "European unit of account" was created, which got replaced by the term European currency unit in 1979). But for the general public 2002 was the year it got introduced.
I hope I managed to explain it. Rather difficult in another language ( and text instead of speech). Even if your vocabulary is big enough, describing things get tricky.
I guess you could say in short: if it is the concept, it is 1975 same thing as in 1999 just a different name. If it is the name, it would be 1995. If it is the actual legal currency people can pay with it is 2002.
Got all except for the Superbowl. Didn't really know some other answers as well, but had a rough idea when they were approximately. Had no clue about the Superbowl.
These days, both the Super Bowl and the World Cup have become much larger than they used to be. But the World Cup has grown more. The World Cup final averages 5x as many viewers as the Super Bowl. But it wasn't that way in 1930.
What happened in 1999 was simply the replacement of the term Ecu (european currency unit) in the "books" for Euro. The ecu wasnt real currency and neither was the euro in 1999. It didnt truly exist until 2002.
It has been a long process which you could say started in 1975 (when the "European unit of account" was created, which got replaced by the term European currency unit in 1979). But for the general public 2002 was the year it got introduced.
I guess you could say in short: if it is the concept, it is 1975 same thing as in 1999 just a different name. If it is the name, it would be 1995. If it is the actual legal currency people can pay with it is 2002.
Nobody outside the US is going to know the first superbowl...