| Date | Event - Location | # of People | Participants | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 14, 1865 | The President's Box - Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. | 5 | Abraham Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | Henry Rathbone | Clara Harris | John Wilkes Booth | 94%
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| April 1, 1976 | Founding of the Apple Computer Company - Los Altos, California | 3 | Steve Jobs | Steve Wozniak | Ronald Wayne | 94%
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| September 17, 1787 | Signing of the U.S. Constitution - Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 39 | George Washington | James Madison | Alexander Hamilton | Benjamin Franklin | Robert Morris | Abraham Baldwin | Richard Bassett | Gunning Bedford Jr. | John Blair | William Blount | David Brearley | Jacob Broom | Pierce Butler | Daniel Carroll | George Clymer | Jonathan Dayton | John Dickinson | William Few | Thomas Fitzsimons | Nicholas Gilman | Nathaniel Gorham | Jared Ingersoll | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | William Samuel Johnson | Rufus King | John Langdon | William Livingston | James McHenry | Thomas Mifflin | Gouverneur Morris | William Paterson | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | Charles Pinckney | George Read | John Rutledge | Roger Sherman | Richard Dobbs Spaight | Hugh Williamson | James Wilson | 94%
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| November 22, 1963 | Convertible Limousine - Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas | 6 | John F. Kennedy | Jacqueline Kennedy | John Connally | Nellie Connally | Bill Greer | Roy Kellerman | 94%
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| March 10, 1876 | First Telephone Call - Boston, Massachusetts | 2 | Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson | 88%
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| December 17, 1903 | The First Manned, Powered, and Controlled Flight - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | 7 | Orville Wright | Wilbur Wright | John Daniels | Adam Etheridge | Will Dough | W.C. Brinkley | Johnny Moore | 88%
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| April 18, 1775 | Midnight Horse Ride - Charlestown, Lexington & Concord, Massachusetts | 5 | Paul Revere | William Dawes | Samuel Prescott | John Hancock | Samuel Adams | 88%
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| April 9, 1865 | Confederate Surrender - Appomattox Court House, Virginia | ~17 | Robert E. Lee | Charles Marshall | Ulysses S. Grant | Ely S. Parker | Philip H. Sheridan | Edward O.C. Ord | Seth Williams | John A. Rawlins | Horace Porter | Orville E. Babcock | Robert Todd Lincoln | Theodor S. Bowers | Frederic T. Dent | John G. Barnard | Adam Badeau | Rufus Ingalls | Wilmer McLean | 88%
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| April 4, 1968 | Assassination - Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee | ~18 | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Rev. Ralph Abernathy | Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Andrew Young | Ben Branch | Solomon Jones } Marrell McColough | Joseph Louw | Hosea Williams | James Bevel | James Orange | Earl Caldwell | James Laue } A.D. King | Georgia Davis | Lucretia Ward | Loree Bailey | 81%
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| July 11, 1804 | Dueling Grounds - Weehawken, New Jersey | 7 | Aaron Burr | Alexander Hamilton | Nathaniel Pendleton | William Van Ness | Dr. David Hosack | Matthew Davis | John Swarthout | 75%
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| February 3, 1959 | "The Day the Music Died" Plane Crash - Clear Lake, Iowa | 4 | Buddy Holly | Ritchie Valens | J. P. Richardson "The Big Bopper" | Roger Peterson | 75%
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| July 18/19, 1969 | Fatal Car Accident - Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts | 2 | Edward "Ted" Kennedy | Mary Jo Kopechne | 75%
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| October 16, 1859 | Seizure of Federal Armory - Harper's Ferry, Virginia | ~21 | Jerry Anderson | John Anderson | John Brown | Oliver Brown | Watson Brown | John Cook | John Copeland | Edwin Coppock | Shields Green | Albert Hazlett | John Kagi | Lewis Leary | William Leeman | Dangerfield Newby | Aaron Stevens | Stewart Taylor | Adolphus Thompson | William Thompson | Charles Tidd | William Williams | Daniel Whelan | 75%
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| November 15, 1805 | Corps of Discovery - Columbia River at Pacific Ocean | ~33 | Meriwether Lewis | William Clark | Toussaint Charbonneau | Sacagawea | Jean Baptiste Charbonneau | York | John Ordway | Patrick Gass | Nathaniel Hale Pryor | William Bratton | John Collins | John Colter | Pierre Cruzatte | Joseph Field | Reubin Field | Robert Frazer | George Gibson | Silas Goodrich | Hugh Hall | Thomas Proctor Howard | François Labiche | Jean-Baptiste Lepage | Hugh McNeal | John Potts | George Shannon | John Shields | John Thompson | Peter M. Weiser | William Werner | Joseph Whitehouse | Alexander Hamilton Willard | Richard Windsor | George Drouillard | 75%
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| October 26, 1881 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Tombstone, Arizona | 14 | Wyatt Earp | Virgil Earp | Morgan Earp | Doc Holliday | Warren Earp | Billy Clanton | Ike Clanton | Tom McLaury | Frank McLaury | Billy Claiborne | Curly Bill Brocius | Frank Stillwell | Pony Diehl | Pete Spence | 69%
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| December 4, 1956 | "Million Dollar Quartet" Jam Session - Sun Record Studios, Memphis, Tennessee | 10 | Elvis Presley | Jerry Lee Lewis | Carl Perkins | Johnny Cash | Clayton Perkins | Jay Perkins | W.S. Holland | Sam Phillips | Marilyn Evans | Jack Clement | 63%
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| September 30, 1955 | Fatal Accident - U.S. Route 466 near Cholame, California | 5 | James Dean | Rolf Wutherich | Sanford Roth | Bill Hickman | Donald Turnupseed | 63%
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| December 2, 1942 | Chicago Pile 1, First Artificial Nuclear Reactor - Chicago, Illinois | 49 | Enrico Fermi | Leo Szilard | Eugene Wigner | Walter Zinn | Leona Woods | George Weil | Herbert Anderson | Harold Agnew | Samuel Allison | Wayne Arnold | Hugh Barton | Thomas Brill | Robert Christy | Arthur Compton | Richard Fox | Stewart Fox | Carl Gamertsfelder | Alvin Graves | Crawford Greenewalt | Norman Hilberry | David Hill | William Hinch | Robert Johnson | W.R. Kanne | August Knuth | Phillip Grant Koontz | Herbert Kubitschek | Harold Lichtenberger | George Maronde | Anthony Matz | George Miller | George Monk | Henry Newson | Robert Nobles | Warren Nyer | Wilcox Overbeck | J. Howard Parsons | Gerard Pawlicki | Theodore Petry | David Rudolph | Leon Sayvetz | Leo Seren | Louis Slotin | Frank Spedding | William Sturm | Albert Wattenberg | Richard Watts | George Weil | Marvin Wilkening | Volney (Bill) Wilson | 56%
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| April 11-17, 1970 | Apollo 13 Command Module - Outer Space | 3 | James A. Lovell Jr. | John L. Swigert Jr. | Fred W. Haise Jr. | 50%
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| November 29, 1981 | Death of Famed Hollywood Actress - Yacht near Santa Catalina Island, California | 4 | Natalie Wood | Richard Wagner | Christopher Walken | Dennis Davern | 44%
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