British History by Month: May - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
4th	1979	This woman became Britain's first female Prime Minister on this day	Margaret Thatcher	100%
8th	1429	This French maiden led the French to victory against the English at Orleans	Joan of Arc	89%
12th	1820	This iconic nurse, famous for treating the wounded of the Crimean War, was born	Florence Nightingale	84%
16th	1951	The first flights from Heathrow to this major city began	New York	74%
25th	1659	This Lord Protector resigned, leading to the restoration of the British monarchy	Richard Cromwell	74%
9th	1960	The sexual revolution began in Britain, when this went on the market	The Contraceptive Pill	74%
5th	1980	The SAS stormed this building in London after it had been taken over by terrorists	The Iranian Embassy	74%
7th	1956	RH Turton, the Health Minister, suggested that these products caused no ill effects on health	Cigarettes	68%
2nd	1982	This Argentinian light cruiser was sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror	ARA General Belgrano	63%
3rd	1926	Britain ground to a halt on this day because of this	A General Strike	58%
14th	1796	This physician became the first in Britain to carry out a vaccination	Edward Jenner	58%
10th	1941	This leading Nazi parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with Britain	Rudolf Hess	58%
21st	1966	Muhammad Ali ends the title hopes of this British fighter; their fight was stopped in the 6th round due to a bad cut	Henry Cooper	53%
20th	1913	The first iteration of this garden exhibition is held in this location, and is still held there to this day	Chelsea	47%
28th	1660	This future British King was born, but spent the majority of his reign abroad having failed to master English	George I	47%
17th	1861	A group of holidaymakers set off on the first foreign 'package trip', organised by this man, spending 6 days in Paris,	Thomas Cook	47%
1st	1759	This entrepreneur founded his pottery company, mass producing cameos depicting abolitionist imagery	Josiah Wedgwood	26%
18th	1812	John Bellingham was sentenced to death for the assassination of this British Prime Minister	Spencer Percival	26%
31st	1985	The Football Association and government banned English clubs from playing in Europe following this tradegy in Belgium	The Heysel Stadium Disaster	26%
24th	1941	This British battlecruiser sank off the coast of Greenland, with the loss of all but three of her 1418 crew	HMS Hood	16%
11th	1985	This football stadium burnt down during a game, leading to the deaths of 56 people	Valley Parade	16%
23rd	1931	The World's first 'open plan' zoo opened here	Whipsnade	16%
26th	604	This saint, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, died	St Augustine	11%
29th	1871	This day became the first official bank holiday in Britain	Whit Monday	11%
13th	1995	This British mother became the first woman to climb Everest without oxygen or the aid of sherpas	Alison Hargreaves	5%
22nd	1623	The chief, and 200 men, of the Potomac tribe, died from poisoned wine after signing a treaty with the English, with it supposedly proposing this	Perpetual Friendship	5%
6th	878	Alfred the Great was victorious at this battle, defeating the Great Heathen Army, and maintaining Anglo-Saxon rule in parts of England	The Battle of Edington	5%
30th	1820	William Bradley died aged 33, holding the record of Britain's tallest man, reaching this height	7 Feet 9 Inches	0%
27th	1919	Onshore oil was first struck in this English county	Derbyshire	0%
19th	1585	English shipping is seized in Spanish ports, serving as the beginning of this conflict	The Anglo-Spanish War	0%
15th	1718	This modern military appliance was first patented by James Puckle, who intended to use it to help him catch fish as he was a keen fisherman	The Machine Gun	0%

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