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| 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits which city ? | Constantinople | 100%
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| 1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in which city ? | Hamburg | 100%
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| 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal. What event did he win ? | Marathon | 100%
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| 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland takes place near which town ? | Musselburgh | 100%
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| 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. How many more asteroids did he discover ? | None | 100%
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| 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for which type of device ? | Sewing Machine | 100%
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| 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. What was the empress' nickname ? | Sisi | 100%
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| 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in which Swiss city ? | Geneva | 0%
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| 1967 – The people of which overseas territory vote to remain a British dependency ? | Gibraltar | 0%
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| 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by what means ? | Guillotine | 0%
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| 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address what problem in the Mediterranean Sea ? | International Piracy | 0%
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| 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on which island ? | Madagascar | 0%
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| 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of which country ? | Norway | 0%
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| 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the civil war in which country ? | Sierra Leone | 0%
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| 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at which British stadium ? | Wembley, London | 0%
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