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25/02/2019 POTUS There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes the surname of an American President who has held office since 1900.  (NB: Names are only used once)

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1.

1865: JWBAAL at FT during a performance of the POAC

John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln;

Ford’s Theatre;

play Our American Cousin

2.

1885: Inspired by British pioneer JL the JB launch a MP business

Joseph Lister;

Johnson brothers;

medical products

3.

1930: Birth of CE who went on to WBDO for his FUAMDB

Clinton Eastwood;

win Best Director Oscars;

films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby

4.

1958: Publication of BATBTC – later a FSAH as HG

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote;

film starring Audrey Hepburn;

Holly Golightly

5.

1962: Debut of SAS all about a RABB based in ODLSB

Steptoe and Son;

rag and bone business;

Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd’s Bush

6.

1963: On the death of HGHW defeats GBAJC to become LOTLP

Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson;

George Brown and James Callaghan;

leader of the Labour Party

7.

1983: Disappointed with his HJJD invents a new VC based on CS

Hoover Junior James Dyson;

vacuum cleaner;

cyclonic separation

8.

1992: Death of AC best known for HNNATC and TBC 

Angela Carter;

her novels Nights at the Circus;

The Bloody Chamber

9.

1994: Ex-husband attacks TH’s fellow ISNK prior to WOGIL

Tonya Harding;

ice skater Nancy Kerrigan;

Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer

10.

1999: Following the ROPA the LD choose CKAL

Resignation of Paddy Ashdown;

Liberal Democrats;

Charles Kennedy as leader