This Day in History - February - Statistics

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Date Year Clue Answer % Correct
Feb 4 2004 This website is founded by Mark Zuckerberg Facebook
98%
Feb 15 1965 A maple-leaf design is adopted as the flag of this country Canada
94%
Feb 18 1930 This dwarf planet is discovered Pluto
92%
Feb 14 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for this device Telephone
90%
Feb 16 1959 This revolutionary becomes leader of Cuba Fidel Castro
87%
Feb 10 2005 This country announces it has nuclear weapons North Korea
85%
Feb 27 1933 The Reichstag building is set on fire in this city Berlin
82%
Feb 9 1964 This rock band's appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" creates a mania in the United States The Beatles
81%
Feb 21 1848 Marx and Engels publish this manifesto The {Communist} Manifesto
80%
Feb 26 1815 This famous leader escapes from the island of Elba Napoleon Bonaparte
79%
Feb 17 2008 This country declares independence from Serbia Kosovo
78%
Feb 13 1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims the independence of this country Tibet
77%
Feb 7 2009 173 are killed by the "Black Saturday" wildfires in this country Australia
75%
Feb 1 2004 This singer has a "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show Janet Jackson
73%
Feb 12 1832 This country annexes the Galápagos Islands Ecuador
72%
Feb 5 1939 This generalísimo becomes leader of Spain Francisco Franco
72%
Feb 11 1990 In a shocking upset, this boxer is defeated by Buster Douglas Mike Tyson
67%
Feb 23 1455 This printer publishes his first Bibles Johannes Gutenberg
64%
Feb 25 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of this country Egypt
61%
Feb 6 1819 This Asian city is founded as a trading post for the British Empire by Sir Stamford Raffles Singapore
59%
Feb 22 2011 This city in New Zealand is struck by a deadly earthquake Christchurch
58%
Feb 8 1950 The Stasi, secret police of this country, is established East Germany
58%
Feb 20 1877 This Tchaikovsky ballet premieres at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow Swan Lake
57%
Feb 28 1991 This war comes to an end The Gulf War
56%
Feb 3 1959 This musician dies in a plane crash, along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Known as the "Day the Music Died". Buddy Holly
55%
Feb 2 1922 "Ulysses", by this author, is first published James Joyce
52%
Feb 29 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide is deposed as leader of this country Haiti
46%
Feb 24 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini offers a $3 million bounty for the death of this author Salman Rushdie
46%
Feb 19 1986 The Soviet Union launches this space station Mir
41%
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