On This Day (February 29th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1916 - In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to what age ? 14
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1940 - Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award for her performance in which film ? Gone With The Wind
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2004 – Following a coup Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of which country ? Haiti
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1988 - Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to announce what ? He is Gay
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2012 - Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke (86) weds make-up artist Arlene Silver (40) in which Californian city ? Malibu
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2008 - Following a leak in the foreign media, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw which royal from a tour of Afghanistan? Prince Harry
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1996 - The siege of which city officially ends ? Sarajevo
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1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded led by American General Douglas MacArthur under the name of Operation what ? Brewer
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2020 - The United States and the Taliban sign an agreement to bring peace to Afghanistan in which city? Doha
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1712 – In a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar, in Sweden February 29th is followed by which date ? February 30th
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1944 - Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, is injured in Krakow by what ? Nazi Truck
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1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to do what ? Provide him with supplies
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1976 - Jeffrey Atkins better known as Ja Rule, American rapper and actor, is born in which New York City borough ? Queens
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February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, but for what reason ? Realign the seasons
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2008 - Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claimed what ? She lived with a pack of wolves in the forest
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1916 - Tokelau is annexed by which country ? United Kingdom
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