This Day in History - All Year - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Jan 3	1959	State which joined the US, the 49th to do so	Alaska	90%
Jan 4	2010	City where Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, was opened	Dubai	90%
Jan 1	2002	Currency which entered circulation for the first time	Euro	90%
Jan 20	2009	President of the U.S. who was inaugurated	Barack Obama	80%
April 28	1945	This former leader is executed by firing squad	Benito Mussolini	80%
Mar 26	1830	This Latter-Day Saints religious text is published	Book of {Mormon}	80%
April 26	1986	This power plant has a catastrophic meltdown	Chernobyl	80%
Mar 31	1889	This tower, constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, is officially opened	Eiffel Tower	80%
Jan 21	1793	Device used to execute Louis XVI of France	Guillotine	80%
May 19	1962	This actress sings "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy	Marilyn Monroe	80%
Jan 23	1368	Dynasty which came to power in China	Ming	80%
Feb 10	2005	Country which announced that is has nuclear weapons	North Korea	80%
Feb 18	1930	Dwarf planet discovered at the Lowell Observatory in New Mexico	Pluto	80%
Jan 22	1901	Queen who died after a reign of 63 years	Queen Victoria	80%
May 13	1888	Brazil finally abolishes this	Slavery	80%
Jan 2	1492	Country whose "reconquest" was completed by the capture of Granada	Spain	80%
April 24	1898	The U.S. declares war on this country	Spain	80%
Feb 14	1876	Device patented by Alexander Graham Bell	Telephone	80%
Jan 30	1969	Band which performed on the roof of Apple Records in their final concert	The Beatles	80%
Feb 21	1848	Manifesto published by Marx and Engels	The {Communist} Manifesto	80%
Feb 13	1913	Country whose independence was proclaimed by the 13th Dalai Lama	Tibet	80%
Mar 1	1998	This film becomes the first to gross $1 billion worldwide	Titanic	80%
Feb 16	1923	Pharaoh whose tomb was unsealed by Howard Carter	Tutankhamun	80%
Oct 31	2011	The human population of Earth reaches this number (according to the U.N.)	7 billion	70%
April 6	1974	This Swedish group wins the Eurovision song contest	ABBA	70%
April 14	1865	This leader is shot at Ford's Theatre	Abraham Lincoln	70%
Mar 21	1963	This California prison, known as "The Rock", closes after 29 years	Alcatraz	70%
July 11	1804	This duelist is fatally wounded by Aaron Burr	Alexander Hamilton	70%
June 10	323 BC	This Macedonian conqueror dies	Alexander the Great	70%
April 12	1861	This war begins at Fort Sumter	American Civil War	70%
Jan 25	1533	Woman who married Henry VIII, the second of his six wives	Anne Boleyn	70%
Mar 18	1992	South Africans pass a referendum to end this practice	Apartheid	70%
Sep 23	1973	Juan Perón returns to power in this country	Argentina	70%
Mar 12	1938	In an event known as the Anschluss, this country is annexed by Germany	Austria	70%
Mar 19	1882	Construction begins on the Sagrada Familia church in this city (It's still under construction today)	Barcelona	70%
Oct 14	1066	William the Conqueror wins this pivotal battle	Battle of Hastings	70%
May 31	1916	The UK and Germany fight this famous naval battle, named for Denmark's main peninsula	Battle of {Jutland}	70%
June 4	1989	Protesters are massacred in or near this city's Tiananmen Square	Beijing	70%
Mar 23	1919	This leader founds the Fascist movement	Benito Mussolini	70%
Oct 30	1922	This fascist becomes Prime Minister of Italy	Benito Mussolini	70%
May 12	1949	The USSR lifts its blockade of this city	Berlin	70%
Aug 13	1961	Borders are closed in this European city	Berlin	70%
Jan 9	1349	Pandemic which the population of Basel blamed on their Jewish residents, who were rounded up and burned alive	Black Death	70%
April 2	742	This Frankish king is born	Charlemagne	70%
Oct 9	768	This ruler is crowned King of the Franks	Charlemagne	70%
Nov 24	1859	This naturalist publishes "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	70%
July 7	1953	This beret-wearing troublemaker sets out on a motorcycle journey through Latin America	Che Guevara	70%
June 23	47 BC	This queen gives birth to Ptolemy Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar	Cleopatra	70%
April 17	1961	The Bay of Pigs invasion begins in this country	Cuba	70%
Oct 28	1962	Ending a crisis, the USSR agrees to remove its missiles from this country	Cuba	70%
July 18	1955	This theme park opens in Anaheim, California	Disneyland	70%
May 26	1940	Allied forces evacuate Europe from this city in France	Dunkirk	70%
Feb 8	1950	Country which established the Stasi, its secret police force	East Germany	70%
Feb 12	1832	Country which annexed the Galápagos Islands	Ecuador	70%
Aug 25	1875	Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across this body of water	English Channel	70%
Feb 4	2004	Website founded by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room	Facebook	70%
June 14	1982	This war between Argentina and the U.K. comes to an end	Falklands War	70%
Jan 5	1914	Manufacturing company which doubled pay to $5 a day	Ford	70%
May 27	1927	This company discontinues the Model T	Ford	70%
Mar 13	2013	This Pope is elected	Francis	70%
Feb 5	1939	Generalísimo who became leader of Spain	Francisco Franco	70%
May 8	1945	This nation unconditionally surrenders	Germany	70%
Aug 11	1919	The new constitution of this country is signed in the city of Weimar	Germany	70%
Oct 3	1990	This country is reunified	Germany	70%
June 16	1897	This kingdom is annexed by the United States	Hawaii	70%
Aug 21	1959	This state becomes the 50th to join the U.S.	Hawaii	70%
June 25	1929	This U.S. President authorizes the building of the dam which today bears his name	Herbert Hoover	70%
Aug 6	1945	An atomic bomb is dropped on this city	Hiroshima	70%
June 30	1997	China regains control of this territory	Hong Kong	70%
Oct 21	1805	This one-armed admiral defeats the French at the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	70%
Aug 29	2005	This hurricane makes landfall in Louisiana	Hurricane Katrina	70%
April 27	711	Moorish troops invade this European peninsula	Iberia	70%
June 17	1944	This island nation declares independence from Denmark	Iceland	70%
Mar 27	1968	Suharto follows Sukarno as President of this country	Indonesia	70%
June 29	2007	This landmark product is released	iPhone	70%
Jan 19	1981	Country which released U.S. hostages after 444 days	Iran	70%
Sep 22	1980	Iraq invades this country, launching the deadliest war of the 1980s	Iran	70%
Nov 4	1979	Hostages are seized from the U.S. embassy in this country	Iran	70%
Mar 20	2003	The U.S. invades this country, looking for weapons of mass destruction	Iraq	70%
Jan 18	1778	British sea captain who "discovered" Hawaii	James Cook	70%
Mar 11	2011	A 9.0 earthquake strikes this country	Japan	70%
Aug 15	1281	For the second time, a "divine wind" destroys the Mongol fleet attempting to invade this island nation	Japan	70%
July 15	1099	This city is conquered by Crusaders	Jerusalem	70%
May 30	1431	This female warrior is burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	70%
Nov 22	1963	This political leader is assassinated in Dallas	John F. Kennedy	70%
Nov 12	1927	This dictator gains undisputed control over the Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin	70%
Jan 10	49 BC	General who crossed the Rubicon	Julius Caesar	70%
Mar 15	44 BC	This leader is assassinated on the floor of the Roman Senate	Julius Caesar	70%
April 29	2011	This woman marries Prince William	Kate Middleton	70%
July 8	1994	This North Korean leader dies after a reign of 45 years	Kim Il-Sung	70%
June 27	1950	The U.S. enters this war	Korean War	70%
Sep 5	1666	This city's "Great Fire" comes to end. The official death toll is only 6.	London	70%
June 7	1654	This king begins his 72 year reign as king of France	Louis XIV	70%
June 15	1215	King John signs this document	Magna Carta	70%
Aug 5	1962	This actress is found dead at age 36 in a "probable suicide"	Marilyn Monroe	70%
June 13	2005	This pop singer is found not guilty of child molestation	Michael Jackson	70%
Aug 19	1991	A failed coup attempt is launched against this Soviet leader	Mikhail Gorbachev	70%
May 29	1953	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of this mountain	Mount Everest	70%
April 7	1906	Naples is devastated by an eruption of this volcano	Mt. Vesuvius	70%
June 8	632	This prophet dies in Medina	Muhammad	70%
April 11	1814	This French leader abdicates	Napoleon	70%
Feb 26	1815	General who escaped from the island of Elba	Napoleon Bonaparte	70%
May 10	1994	This man becomes the first black leader of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	70%
Sep 11	2001	Terrorists destroy the World Trade Center in this city	New York City	70%
Mar 2	1946	Ho Chi Minh is elected President of this country	North Vietnam	70%
May 2	2011	This infamous person is killed in Pakistan	Osama Bin Laden	70%
Nov 3	1903	Prodded by the United States, this country separates from Colombia	Panama	70%
Dec 7	1941	This American naval base is attacked by Japan	Pearl Harbor	70%
Oct 27	1682	This American city is founded by William Penn	Philadelphia	70%
Aug 24	2006	This Kuiper Belt object is demoted to "dwarf planet" status	Pluto	70%
Sep 1	1939	Germany invades this country, considered the beginning of WWII	Poland	70%
Nov 14	1948	This British prince is born	Prince Charles	70%
Aug 31	1997	This celebrity dies in a car crash after being chased by paparazzi	Princess Diana	70%
Dec 5	1933	This period of American history comes to an end, following the ratification of the 21st amendment	Prohibition	70%
Aug 8	1974	This U.S. President resigns	Richard Nixon	70%
Sep 8	1974	This politician is pardoned by Gerald Ford	Richard Nixon	70%
April 15	1912	This ship sinks in the northern Atlantic	RMS Titanic	70%
April 21	753 BC	This city is founded by twin brothers (according to legend)	Rome	70%
Dec 1	1955	This woman refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama	Rosa Parks	70%
Sep 3	301	This tiny country is founded on Monte Titano, making it the oldest republic on Earth (at least according to legend)	San Marino	70%
Aug 9	1965	This country gains independence unwillingly after being expelled from Malaysia	Singapore	70%
June 19	1865	"Juneteeth" celebrates the day that this came to an end in Texas	Slavery	70%
Aug 1	1834	This practice is abolished in the British Empire	Slavery	70%
Jan 11	1964	Activity which the U.S. Surgeon General warned may be hazardous to one's health	Smoking	70%
July 9	2011	This country becomes independent from Sudan	South Sudan	70%
July 17	1936	Civil war erupts in this country	Spain	70%
April 25	404 BC	Athens is defeated by this city-state	Sparta	70%
Oct 4	1957	This satellite becomes the first human-built object to orbit Earth	Sputnik 1	70%
Mar 8	1957	This canal is re-opened following a crisis which had shut it down	Suez Canal	70%
Nov 17	1869	This canal, connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, is inaugurated	Suez Canal	70%
Feb 9	1964	Rock band that appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show"	The Beatles	70%
Nov 9	1989	This wall comes tumbling down	The Berlin Wall	70%
Sep 16	1620	This Pilgrim ship begins its voyage to America	The Mayflower	70%
July 20	1969	People walk here for the first time	The Moon	70%
Dec 13	1972	Gene Cernan becomes the last of twelve people to walk here	The Moon	70%
June 28	1919	This treaty is signed, officially ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers	Treaty of {Versailles}	70%
July 4	1776	This country declares its independence from Great Britain	United States	70%
Sep 2	1945	Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of this country	Vietnam	70%
May 7	2000	This judo enthusiast becomes President of Russia	Vladimir Putin	70%
Aug 30	1963	The so-called "red phone" is established, connecting this city and Moscow	Washington D.C.	70%
April 23	1616	This writer dies at Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare	70%
June 18	1940	This politician gives his "Finest Hour" speech	Winston Churchill	70%
July 28	1914	This "war to end all wars" begins	World War I	70%
Nov 11	1918	An armistice is signed ending hostilities in this war	World War I	70%
Oct 6	1973	Syria and Egypt invade Israel on this Jewish holiday	Yom Kippur	70%
Jan 14	1953	Country where Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as President	Yugoslavia	70%
April 20	1889	This historical villain is born in Austria	Adolf Hitler	60%
Nov 21	1905	This scientist publishes his famous formula: E = MC²	Albert Einstein	60%
Oct 1	331 BC	This conqueror defeats the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela	Alexander the Great	60%
July 2	1937	This aviatrix goes missing over the Pacific Ocean	Amelia Earhart	60%
July 16	1945	This device is tested for the first time (in New Mexico)	Atomic Bomb	60%
July 30	762	This city is founded on the Tigris River	Baghdad	60%
Nov 25	1986	The King Fahd Causeway is opened connecting Saudi Arabia to this nearby island	Bahrain	60%
Nov 28	1717	This pirate captures a French ship which he renames "Queen Anne's Revenge"	Blackbeard	60%
June 20	1991	Germany votes to move the capital from this city to its present location in Berlin	Bonn	60%
Mar 5	1770	British troops massacre five Americans in this city	Boston	60%
Feb 3	1959	Musician who died in a plane crash with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (known as the "Day the Music Died")	Buddy Holly	60%
Dec 27	1831	This naturalist embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle	Charles Darwin	60%
Jan 8	1959	President of France who was inaugurated, the first of the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle	60%
Aug 22	1642	This king declares Parliament to be traitors, sparking the English Civil War	Charles I	60%
May 11	1997	A computer beats world champion Garry Kasparov at this activity	Chess	60%
Aug 12	30 BC	This Egyptian ruler commits suicide, possibly snake bite	Cleopatra	60%
April 5	1722	Europeans first make contact with this remote Pacific island, now a part of Chile	Easter Island	60%
May 17	1805	Muhammad Ali becomes leader of this country	Egypt	60%
July 21	1970	The Aswan Dam is completed in this country	Egypt	60%
May 9	1936	This country is formally annexed by Italy	Ethiopia	60%
Nov 2	1930	Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of this country	Ethiopia	60%
July 26	1952	This Argentinian first lady dies at age 33	Eva Peron	60%
Nov 30	1939	The USSR invades this country to start the Winter War	Finland	60%
Nov 23	1991	One day before his death, this singer reveals that he is HIV positive	Freddie Mercury	60%
Jan 7	1610	Scientist who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	60%
Jan 29	1820	"Mad" king who died after a reign of nearly 60 years	George III	60%
July 3	1863	This battle, the bloodiest of the U.S. Civil War, comes to an end	Gettysburg	60%
Nov 19	1863	Abraham Lincoln gives a famous speech at this battle site	Gettysburg	60%
June 11	1978	This film, starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, opens in movie theaters	Grease	60%
Nov 5	1605	This Gunpowder Plot conspirator is captured	Guy Fawkes	60%
Feb 29	2004	Country where Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed by a coup	Haiti	60%
Jan 6	1066	King of England who was crowned. The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, he would die at the Battle of Hastings 10 months later.	Harold Godwinson	60%
April 3	1888	This London serial killer claims his first victim	Jack the Ripper	60%
Oct 7	1962	Dr. No, the first movie to feature this character, is released	James Bond	60%
Dec 24	1777	This English sea captain discovers Kiritimati, aka, Christmas Island	James Cook	60%
Aug 4	70	Romans destroy the temple in this city	Jerusalem	60%
Sep 20	1187	Saladin besieges this city, taking it about two weeks later	Jerusalem	60%
Dec 8	1980	This musician is killed by Mark David Chapman in New York City	John Lennon	60%
May 23	1533	This king divorces Catherine of Aragon	King Henry VIII	60%
July 14	1789	This prison is stormed by the citizens of Paris, who find just 7 prisoners inside	La Bastille	60%
Sep 17	1916	This fighter ace records the first of his 80 aerial victories	Manfred von Richthofen	60%
Oct 16	1793	This French queen is guillotined	Marie Antoinette	60%
Mar 10	1969	James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of this leader	Martin Luther King, Jr.	60%
Jan 27	1984	Pop singer whose hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial	Michael Jackson	60%
Oct 19	1812	Napoleon retreats from this city. Less than 10% of his troops will survive the long march back to France.	Moscow	60%
July 19	64	This emperor allegedly fiddles while Rome burns	Nero	60%
Oct 13	54	This musical enthusiast becomes emperor of Rome	Nero	60%
Feb 25	1956	Soviet leader who gave his so-called "secret speech" denouncing Stalin	Nikita Khrushchev	60%
May 28	1998	This country tests nuclear weapons for the first time	Pakistan	60%
Sep 28	1928	Alexander Fleming discovers this miracle drug	Penicillin	60%
May 25	1787	The Constitutional Convention opens in this city	Philadelphia	60%
Aug 14	1980	Lech Wałęsa leads labor strikes in this country	Poland	60%
Aug 10	1921	Franklin D. Roosevelt first shows signs of this disease	Polio	60%
June 21	1982	This British royal is born, becoming second-in-line to the throne	Prince William	60%
Oct 18	1898	This island becomes a U.S. territory	Puerto Rico	60%
June 5	1968	This politician is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan	Robert F. Kennedy	60%
Mar 3	1861	Serfdom is abolished in this country	Russia	60%
Dec 30	2006	This former Iraqi leader is hanged	Saddam Hussein	60%
May 1	1328	England recognizes the independence of this country	Scotland	60%
Sep 18	2014	This "country" votes not to become independent	Scotland	60%
May 14	1796	Edward Jenner administers the first vaccine for this disease	Smallpox	60%
Dec 9	1979	This disease is declared to be eradicated	Smallpox	60%
Sep 7	1986	Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop in this country	South Africa	60%
Nov 20	1820	This type of whale attacks and sinks the whaling ship Essex	Sperm Whale	60%
Sep 4	2006	This television star is killed by a stingray	Steve Irwin	60%
Oct 5	2011	This technology pioneer dies of pancreatic cancer	Steve Jobs	60%
April 10	1971	To improve relations, China hosts American athletes in this sport	Table tennis	60%
Sep 27	1996	This militant Islamist faction captures Kabul	Taliban	60%
Sep 21	1937	This J.R.R. Tolkien book is published	The Hobbit	60%
July 27	1890	This Dutch artist shoots himself	Vincent Van Gogh	60%
Mar 25	1584	Sir Walter Raleigh is given a royal patent to colonize this U.S. state	Virginia	60%
Mar 29	1961	The 23rd amendment is ratified, allowing citizens of this city to vote in U.S. Presidential elections	Washington D.C.	60%
Dec 28	1065	This abbey, burial place of British monarchs, is consecrated	Westminster Abbey	60%
Sep 19	1893	New Zealand becomes the first country to grant these people the right to vote	Women	60%
Aug 18	1969	Jimi Hendrix plays the American national anthem at this music festival	Woodstock	60%
Aug 7	1974	Philippe Petit walks between these two buildings on a tight rope	World Trade Center	60%
Mar 4	1980	Robert Mugabe begins his long and disastrous reign as ruler of this African nation	Zimbabwe	60%
April 18	1980	This country, formerly known as Rhodesia, becomes independent	Zimbabwe	60%
Aug 28	1879	In South Africa, the British capture Cetshwayo, the last king of this tribe	Zulu	60%
July 23	2011	This British singer dies of alcohol poisoning	Amy Winehouse	50%
June 3	1968	At the "Factory" in New York City, this artist is shot and nearly killed by a deranged woman	Andy Warhol	50%
June 1	1533	This woman is crowned Queen consort of England. Despite rumors to the contrary, she has the normal number of fingers.	Anne Boleyn	50%
Feb 7	2009	Country where 173 people were killed by the "Black Saturday" wildfires	Australia	50%
Jan 31	2010	Film which became the first to gross $2 billion worldwide	Avatar	50%
Sep 24	1957	Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, opens in this city	Barcelona	50%
Jan 15	1892	Game whose rules were published by James Naismith	Basketball	50%
Dec 19	1998	This politician is impeached	Bill Clinton	50%
Jan 28	1986	Space shuttle which exploded	Challenger	50%
May 21	1927	This aviator reaches Paris after a non-stop flight from New York	Charles Lindbergh	50%
Oct 8	1871	Mrs. O'Leary's cow allegedly starts a fire in this city	Chicago	50%
Feb 22	2011	City in New Zealand where 185 people died in an earthquake	Christchurch	50%
April 13	1204	Crusaders capture and loot this Christian capital	Constantinople	50%
Mar 28	1854	This war heats up as the U.K. and France declare war on Russia	Crimean War	50%
Mar 30	1959	This religious leader enters India, seeking asylum	Dalai Lama	50%
Nov 15	1920	This city on the Germany / Poland border becomes a quasi-independent city state	Danzig	50%
Feb 23	1455	Printer who published his first Bibles	Johannes Gutenberg	50%
April 22	1970	This environmental day is celebrated for the first time	Earth Day	50%
Dec 11	1936	This British king abdicates	Edward VIII	50%
July 10	1925	The Scopes "monkey trial" begins, in which a teacher in Tennessee is accused of teaching this scientific theory	Evolution	50%
April 4	1581	This captain is knighted in honor of his circumnavigation of the globe	Francis Drake	50%
Dec 29	1916	This "mad monk" is murdered in St. Petersburg, Russia	Grigori Rasputin	50%
Jan 12	2010	Country struck by an earthquake which killed over 100,000 people	Haiti	50%
Feb 28	202 BC	Dynasty which began in China with the ascension of Liu Bang as emperor	Han	50%
Feb 15	1898	City where the USS Maine exploded, sparking the Spanish-American War	Havana	50%
Oct 25	1415	This English king defeats the French at Agincourt	Henry V	50%
May 6	1937	This German zeppelin is destroyed by fire	Hindenburg	50%
Dec 26	2004	A deadly tsunami is caused by 9.3 earthquake off the coast of this country	Indonesia	50%
July 5	1687	This scientist publishes "Principia Mathematica"	Isaac Newton	50%
Aug 26	1768	This explorer sets sail from England aboard the HMS Endeavour	James Cook	50%
Sep 30	1955	This young movie star dies in a car crash	James Dean	50%
Mar 24	1603	This Scottish king becomes King of England	James I	50%
Feb 1	2004	Singer who had a "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl halftime show	Janet Jackson	50%
Jan 13	1968	Singer who performed at Folsom State Prison	Johnny Cash	50%
Dec 17	2011	This notorious dictator dies, leaving his doughy young son in charge	Kim Jong-il	50%
Sep 15	1950	U.S. forces land at Inchon, considered a turning point of this war	Korean War	50%
May 5	1260	This khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire	Kublai	50%
Dec 21	1988	Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland. This country later admits responsibility.	Libya	50%
April 30	1803	The U.S. nearly doubles in size after purchasing this territory from France	Louisiana Territory	50%
April 16	1943	Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of this drug	LSD	50%
Dec 20	1999	Portugal returns this territory to China	Macau	50%
Sep 10	1960	Abebe Bikila sets a new world record at this event - without shoes	Marathon	50%
Feb 11	1990	Boxer defeated by Buster Douglas in a shocking upset	Mike Tyson	50%
May 18	1980	This volcano erupts in the U.S. state of Washington	Mount St. Helens	50%
Oct 24	1901	Annie Taylor becomes the first person to go over these in a barrel	Niagara Falls	50%
Oct 12	1810	This Munich festival is held for the first time	Oktoberfest	50%
Dec 16	1653	This leader becomes Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	50%
July 22	1992	This drug lord escapes from his luxury prison near Medellín	Pablo Escobar	50%
Nov 16	1988	Benazir Bhutto is elected prime minister of this country	Pakistan	50%
Mar 6	1869	Dmitri Mendeleev presents this table to the Russian Chemical Society	Periodic Table	50%
Oct 20	1944	General Douglas MacArthur returns to this country after being forced to flee two years earlier	Philippines	50%
Jan 17	1929	Spinach-guzzling cartoon character who appeared for the first time	Popeye	50%
Oct 10	1911	The start of the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew this imperial dynasty, China's last	Qing	50%
July 6	1483	This "hunchbacked" king of England is crowned	Richard III	50%
July 24	1847	Brigham Young establishes this city	Salt Lake City	50%
Mar 7	1912	Roald Amundsen's discovery of this location is announced	South Pole	50%
Dec 31	1991	This country is officially dissolved	Soviet Union	50%
June 9	1891	Painter Paul Gauguin arrives at this Polynesian island	Tahiti	50%
Oct 22	1836	Sam Houston becomes the first president of this short-lived country	Texas	50%
Oct 23	4004 BC	The world is created, according to James Ussher's calculations based on this book	The Bible	50%
Nov 26	1976	This band releases their debut single "Anarchy in the U.K."	The Sex Pistols	50%
Sep 13	1996	This rapper is killed in Las Vegas	Tupac Shakur	50%
May 20	1498	This Portuguese explorer reaches India by sea	Vasco da Gama	50%
Oct 29	1618	This English adventurer, who tried to colonize Virginia, is beheaded	Walter Raleigh	50%
Aug 23	1305	This Scottish rebel is executed in London	William Wallace	50%
May 22	1807	This former U.S. Vice President is indicted on charges of treason	Aaron Burr	40%
Mar 16	597 BC	Jerusalem is captured by this empire	Babylon	40%
April 19	2005	This pope is elected	Benedict XVI	40%
July 25	1965	This folk singer dismays fans by playing electric music at the Newport Folk Festival	Bob Dylan	40%
Jan 24	41	Depraved Roman emperor who was assassinated	Caligula	40%
July 1	1867	This country is founded as a confederation of three British colonies	Canada	40%
Sep 26	1580	This English sea captain finishes his circumnavigation of the globe	Francis Drake	40%
June 24	1717	The first Grand Lodge of this organization is founded in London	Freemasonry	40%
Mar 17	1969	This woman becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel	Golda Meir	40%
June 2	1896	This Italian inventor files a patent for the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	40%
Dec 12	1901	This Italian inventor receives the first international radio transmission	Guglielmo Marconi	40%
Aug 2	216 BC	This Carthaginian general defeats the Romans at the Battle of Cannae	Hannibal	40%
Dec 3	1984	Thousands die after a toxic gas leak near the city of Bhopal in this country	India	40%
Sep 25	1513	Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses this isthmus, becoming the first European to see the Pacific coast of the Americas	Isthmus of Panama	40%
Feb 2	1922	Author whose novel "Ulysses" was first published	James Joyce	40%
Sep 12	1953	Jacqueline Bouvier marries this politician	John F. Kennedy	40%
Sep 9	1543	This woman is crowned "Queen of Scots"	Mary Stuart	40%
July 12	1561	St. Basil's cathedral is consecrated in this city	Moscow	40%
May 15	1972	This island, under U.S. occupation, reverts to Japanese control	Okinawa	40%
Feb 24	1989	Author whose death was called for by Ayatollah Khomeini, who offered a $3 million bounty	Salman Rushdie	40%
June 26	2015	The Supreme Court legalizes this across the U.S.	Same-sex marriage	40%
Aug 16	1829	Chang and Eng, conjoined twins from this country, arrive in the U.S.	Siam	40%
Feb 20	1877	Tchaikovsky ballet which premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow	Swan Lake	40%
Dec 15	1978	The U.S. announces it will establish official diplomatic relations with China, and sever them with this country	Taiwan	40%
May 16	1929	These awards are presented for the first time	The Academy Awards	40%
Dec 18	1892	This Tchaikovsky ballet is performed for the first time	The Nutcracker	40%
Nov 7	1800	A law is passed making it illegal for women in France to wear these (it would be repealed in 2013)	Trousers	40%
Dec 22	1942	Hitler orders the mass production of this technically impressive, but largely useless, ballistic missile	V-2	40%
Sep 6	1901	This President is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz	William McKinley	40%
April 1	1976	This company is founded by Jobs, Wozniak, and Wayne	Apple, Inc	30%
June 12	1817	The "dandy horse" is ridden for this first time. It was the predecessor to this modern method of transportation.	Bicycle	30%
Mar 14	1794	Eli Whitney is granted a patent for this invention, increasing the profitability of plantations in the American South	Cotton gin	30%
Nov 27	1095	Pope Urban II calls for this holy war	First Crusade	30%
Sep 14	1982	This actress, the Princess of Monaco, dies in a car accident	Grace Kelly	30%
Nov 8	1519	This conquistador enters Tenochtitlán	Hernán Cortés	30%
Dec 6	1998	This socialist is elected President of Venezuela	Hugo Chávez	30%
Dec 23	1815	"Emma", by this British novelist, is first published	Jane Austen	30%
Nov 6	1861	This politician is elected President of the Confederate States	Jefferson Davis	30%
Nov 1	1957	The Mackinac Bridge connects the two peninsulas of this U.S. state	Michigan	30%
Aug 3	1778	Opera house "La Scala" opens in this city	Milan	30%
April 9	1241	These steppe raiders decisively beat a Polish army at the Battle of Legnica	Mongols	30%
Oct 2	1535	Jacques Cartier arrives at the present-day site of this city on the St. Lawrence river	Montreal	30%
Sep 29	1938	At a conference in this city, European leaders agree to let Germany annex part of Czechoslovakia	Munich	30%
Dec 10	1901	In Stockholm, these awards are given for the first time	Nobel Prizes	30%
June 22	1969	The Cuyahoga River catches fire in this U.S. state	Ohio	30%
Nov 13	2015	ISIS terrorists attack the Bataclan theatre in this city	Paris	30%
Aug 27	479 BC	Ancient Greeks win the battles of Plataea and Mycale, ending the attempted invasion by this empire	Persian Empire	30%
Jan 26	1924	City renamed Leningrad	Petrograd	30%
Dec 25	271	A temple to the sun god Sol Invictus is dedicated in this city	Rome	30%
July 31	1970	Disappointing sailors, the British Navy discontinues daily rations of this substance	Rum	30%
May 3	1973	This building is completed. It would be the tallest in the world for over 20 years.	{Sears} Tower	30%
Feb 6	1819	City founded by Sir Stamford Raffles near the Strait of Malacca	Singapore	30%
May 24	1844	Samuel Morse sends the first official message using this device	Telegraph	30%
June 6	1984	This Russian video game is released	Tetris	30%
Oct 26	1881	The "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" occurs in this Arizona frontier town	Tombstone	30%
Dec 14	1994	Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on this river	Yangtze	30%
May 4	1994	This PLO leader signs a peace accord with Israel	Yasser Arafat	30%
Aug 20	1882	This Tchaikovsky overture debuts in Moscow, using cannon shots as part of the music	{1812} Overture	20%
Jan 16	27 BC	Title granted to Octavian by the Roman Senate, an event usually considered to mark the start of the Roman Empire	Augustus	20%
Nov 10	1871	Henry Stanley presumably finds this explorer in the interior of Africa	David Livingstone	20%
Oct 15	1917	Exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed for this crime	Espionage	20%
Mar 9	141 BC	Emperor Wu, of this dynasty, begins his 54 year reign as ruler of China	Han	20%
July 13	1923	This famous sign is dedicated in the hills above Los Angeles. (The last four letters would be dropped in 1949)	Hollywoodland	20%
Aug 17	1807	The world's first commercial steamboat service is started on this river, connecting New York City and Albany	Hudson River	20%
Feb 19	1986	Space station launched by the Soviet Union (its name means "peace" in Russian)	Mir	20%
Feb 27	1933	Building in Berlin which suffered heavy damage in an arson attack	Reichstag building	20%
Oct 11	1962	This Catholic council convenes. It would introduce many changes, such as allowing masses to be held in languages besides Latin.	Second {Vatican} Council	20%
April 8	1820	This armless sculpture is discovered on the island of Milos	Venus de Milo	20%
Feb 17	1972	German car model which passed the Model T to become the best-selling in history to that point	Volkswagen Beetle	20%
Dec 2	1848	Franz Josef I becomes the leader of this empire	Austrian Empire	10%
Nov 18	1978	Over 900 Jonestown cult members commit suicide by drinking cyanide mixed with this sweetened beverage	Flavor Aid	10%
Oct 17	1604	This explosion is first observed from Earth. For weeks, it would appear brighter than any star in the night sky.	Kepler's {Supernova}	10%
Nov 29	1877	This musical device is first demonstrated by Thomas Edison	Phonograph	10%
July 29	1968	This practice is banned by Pope Paul VI	Artificial Birth Control	0%
Mar 22	1993	Intel ships this computer chip	Pentium	0%
Dec 4	1965	This rock band performs at a California "acid test"	The Grateful Dead	0%

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