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I was emailed this in work earlier, its a list of World Events since we last lost a league game...

December 1 ? The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.[88]

2 December - The Winter Hill transmitter has its remaining analogue signals turned off, completing the digital switchover process in the Granada Television region.[169]

December 7 ? December 18 ? The UNFCCC's United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 conference is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.[89

]December 16 ? Astronomers discover GJ1214b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.[90]

January 1 ? Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.January 1 ? A suicide bombing occurs at a volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 95, and injuring over 100.[2]

January 4 ? The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.[3][4][5]

* 5 January - The United Kingdom is once again deluged by heavy snowfall as the country endures its worst cold snap since the winter of 1981-82.[2]

January 8 ? The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations.[6]

January 12 ? A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. The confirmed death toll is over 230,000,[7][8][9] making the earthquake one of the deadliest on record.

January 15 ? The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.

2 February - Birmingham based confectionary giant Cadbury is taken over by American rival Kraft Foods in an ?11.5billion deal. [1]

February 3 ? The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for ?65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.[10][11][12]

February 12?28 ? The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.

February 18 ? The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace.[13] Later in the day, the rebels announce on television the formation of a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.[14]

February 27 ? An 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497.[15] One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, this rare megathrust earthquake probably shifts Earth's axis and slightly shortens its days.[16][17]

February 12?28 ? The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.

February 18 ? The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace.[13] Later in the day, the rebels announce on television the formation of a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.[14]

February 27 ? An 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497.[15] One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, this rare megathrust earthquake probably shifts Earth's axis and slightly shortens its days.[16][17]

March 16 ? The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.[18]

April 7 ? Amid fierce rioting, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek to the southern city of Osh. The opposition seizes control of the government, placing former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva as the head of the interim government.[19]

April 10 ? The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia.[20][21]

12 April -o A car bomb explodes outside MI5 headquarters in County Down, Northern Ireland. The Real IRA claim responsibility for the bomb shortly after its detonation.[25]

April 13 ? A 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in western China, killing at least 600 and injuring more than 10,000.[22][23]

April 14 ? Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallaj?kull in Iceland disrupts air traffic across northern and western Europe.[24][25][26][27]

A few presidents over thrown, couple of hundred thousand people killed in natural disasters, alien planets, volcanoes... even the worlds axis have slightly changed due to one of the earthquakes :D

We can't stop now, there must be loads on the horizon over the next few weeks.

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Me and the boy.

Best of luck to the singing section against the hostile hordes of the yellow-jacketed Gestapo!

Hope you get to see most of the match IHE! :D

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I shall be there as usual. Will also venture into the Innes for the first time :blink:

Good on ya, come over for a chat, mann4thejob looks like Neil Youngs dad, Johndo is kind of roundish.

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