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| 1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest of which type of storm on record to strike the Earth ? | Geomagnetic Storm | 100%
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| 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act. How long did he speak for ? | 24 hours and 18 minutes | 0%
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| 1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy which city ? | Belgrade | 0%
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| 1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. What was it named ? | Dactyl | 0%
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| 1609 – English explorer Henry Hudson discovers which North American bay ? | Delaware Bay | 0%
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| 1789 – William Herschel discovers which moon of Saturn ? | Enceladus | 0%
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| 1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor is born. He is best known for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in which British sitcom ? | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | 0%
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| 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in which state | Mississippi | 0%
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| 1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed as what ? | Pepsi-Cola | 0%
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| 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city. What was his capital city ? | Ravenna | 0%
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| 1845 – The first issue of which magazine is published ? | Scientific American | 0%
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| 1944 – World War II: Marseille and which other city are liberated ? | Toulon | 0%
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| 1937 – Which Japanese motor manufacturer becomes an independent company ? | Toyota | 0%
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| 1963 – The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech in which city ? | Washington | 0%
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| 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing which building ? | White House | 0%
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