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1. 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys 57 towers and large portions of the walls of which city ?
Baghdad
Constantinople
Cairo
Damascus
2. 1217 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed in which English building by King Henry III ?
Nottingham Castle
York Minster
St. Pauls Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral
3. 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University in the first official intercollegiate game of which sport ?
Baseball
American Football
Basketball
Field Hockey
4. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to which city, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead ?
Barcelona
Aragon
Tarragona
Valencia
5. 1943 – The 1st Ukrainian Front, led by general Nikolai Vatutin, liberates which city from fascist occupation ?
Odessa
Sevastopol
Kiev
Lviv
6. 1947 – The longest running television program in history, makes its debut. What is it called ?
Meet the Press
The Sky at Night
News at 6
The Tonight Show
7. 1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor is born. With which band is he associated ?
Beach Boys
Doors
Grateful Dead
Eagles
8. 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on which Aleutian island ?
Tanaga Island
Amchitka Island
Atka Island
Great Sitkin Island
9. 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, fails killing 39 in which state of the US ?
Alabama
Kansas
Georgia
Maine
10. 1986 – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. Sumburgh is in which island group ?
Shetland
Orkney
Scilly
Outer Hebrides
11. 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to which city ?
Detroit
Boston
Cincinatti
Baltimore
12. 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England. In which county is Ufton Nervet ?
Wiltshire
Berkshire
Suffolk
Kent
13. 2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first politician to be elected to the United States Senate that is what ?
Blind
Hispanic
Openly Gay
Deaf
14. 2012 – Clive Dunn, English actor dies at the age of 92. He is best known for starring in which popular UK sitcom ?
Dad's Army
Porridge
'Allo 'Allo
Open All Hours
15. Which food is celebrated on this day in the USA ?