This Day in History - May - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
May 8	1945	This nation unconditionally surrenders	Germany	92%
May 7	2000	This judo enthusiast becomes President of Russia	Vladimir Putin	90%
May 10	1994	This man becomes the first black leader of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	89%
May 13	1888	Brazil finally abolishes this	Slavery	87%
May 11	1997	A computer beats world champion Garry Kasparov at this activity	Chess	86%
May 2	2011	This infamous person is killed in Pakistan	Osama Bin Laden	86%
May 19	1962	This actress sings "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy	Marilyn Monroe	85%
May 27	1927	This company discontinues the Model T	Ford	80%
May 12	1949	The USSR lifts its blockade of this city	Berlin	79%
May 29	1953	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of this mountain	Mount Everest	78%
May 16	1929	These awards are presented for the first time	The Academy Awards	78%
May 30	1431	This female warrior is burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	76%
May 1	1328	England recognizes the independence of this country	Scotland	74%
May 23	1533	This king divorces Catherine of Aragon	King Henry VIII	73%
May 6	1937	This German zeppelin is destroyed by fire	Hindenburg	71%
May 14	1796	Edward Jenner administers the first vaccine for this disease	Smallpox	70%
May 26	1940	Allied forces evacuate Europe from this city in France	Dunkirk	61%
May 20	1498	This Portuguese explorer reaches India by sea	Vasco da Gama	59%
May 24	1844	Samuel Morse sends the first official message using this device	Telegraph	58%
May 9	1936	This country is formally annexed by Italy	Ethiopia	56%
May 5	1260	This khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire	Kublai	56%
May 18	1980	This volcano erupts in the U.S. state of Washington	Mount St. Helens	56%
May 28	1998	This country tests nuclear weapons for the first time	Pakistan	56%
May 25	1787	The Constitutional Convention opens in this city	Philadelphia	54%
May 21	1927	This aviator reaches Paris after a non-stop flight from New York	Charles Lindbergh	51%
May 3	1973	This building is completed. It would be the tallest in the world for over 20 years.	{Sears} Tower	50%
May 31	1916	The UK and Germany fight this famous naval battle, named for Denmark's main peninsula	Battle of {Jutland}	49%
May 15	1972	This island, under U.S. occupation, reverts to Japanese control	Okinawa	47%
May 4	1994	This PLO leader signs a peace accord with Israel	Yasser Arafat	47%
May 17	1805	Muhammad Ali becomes leader of this country	Egypt	40%
May 22	1807	This former U.S. Vice President is indicted on charges of treason	Aaron Burr	27%

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