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it's our 20th birthday!

In 2010 we celebrate our twentieth birthday. To mark the start of our third decade, we've looked back over the last two for this year's calendar. Each month is represented by an event that happened in that month between 1990 and 2009.

See if you can guess what they are, and to make things a little easier we've added a clue. We'll reveal the answers here as the months unfold. If you can guess them all in advance, just let us know!

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January

Clue: A famous museum started the new millenium with its own Y2K problem.
Solution: In the early hours of New Year's Day 2000 a thief broke into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He got in through a skylight via scaffolding surrounding a next door building and then lowered himself by rope before throwing a smoke cannister into the Hindley Smith Gallery. The room filed with smoke causing chaos and obscuring the view of the security cameras. This gave him the opportunity to steal one painting: 'View of Auvers-sur-Oise,' by Cezanne.
He then melted into the night amongst the New Year revellers in the streets of Oxford.
The painting, worth approx. £4 million, has never been recovered and as there hasn't been a ransom demand or any evidence of it being offered for sale it is assumed it was stolen to order.

February

Clue: In 1990 the end of the long walk to freedom started here.
Solution: Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison and much of this was on on Robben Island. He was eventually released on 11th February 1990, although by then he had been moved to Victor Verster prison in the Western Cape. His extraordinary support for reconciliation and negotiation with the ruling National Party of South Africa led to the fall of apartheid in 1993. He has received over 250 awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. His autobiography, released in 1996, was titled 'Long Walk to Freedom'.

March

Clue: 2001 saw the tenth release of this non-PC big cat.
Solution: ?

April

Clue: After 1993 the books became less important.
Solution: ?

May

Clue: Last year they were in the dog house because of a duck house.
Solution: ?

June

Clue: A bolt from the blue in 1997.
Solution: ?

July

Clue: In 1996 you might have thought you were seeing double.
Solution: ?

August

Clue: 2003 and Phew! What a Scorcher!
Solution: ?

September

Clue: Strewth mate, howzat!
Solution: ?

October

Clue: In 1995 they tried to squeeze the truth out of him.
Solution: ?

November

Clue: That day trip to New York got a bit longer this year.
Solution: ?

December

Clue: 1991 and The Party came to an end.
Solution: ?

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