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Given clues and the dates, name the city in which these major events occurred
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Event
Date
City
1) Julius Caesar stabbed to death in the Senate
44 BC
Rome
2) Prophet Muhammad is born
571 AD
Mecca
3) Norman leader William defeated Anglo-Saxon Harold Godwinson in this decisive battle
1066
Hastings
4) Sicilian city where infected ships first introduced the Black Plague
1347
Messina
5) Martin Luther posted his 95 theses in this city that sparked the Protestant Reformation
1517
Wittenberg
6) Hernan Cortes defeated Aztec king Montezuma to gain Spanish control
1521
Mexico City
7) Wolfgang Mozart was born in this Austrian city
1756
Salzburg
8) Colonists dressed as Natives dumped chests of tea into the harbor to protest British taxes
1773
Boston
9) The Declaration of Independence was signed in this city
1776
Philadelphia
10) The Battle of the Alamo occurred here with Davy Crockett defending it
1836
San Antonio
11) President Lincoln is assassinated at Fords Theater in this capital days after the Civil War
1865
Washington DC
12) Archduke Franz Ferdinands' assassination ignited the First World War
1914
Sarajevo
13) Notorious gangster Al Capone ruled this city during Prohibition
1925-1931
Chicago
14) Japanese city destroyed by the first atomic bomb
Aug 6, 1945
Hiroshima
15) John F Kennedy was assassinated in this city during a motorcade
Nov 22, 1963
Dallas
16) Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King is assassinated in this city
1968
Memphis
17) The Wall comes down in this city, reuniting West and East Germany
1989
Berlin
18) The Rodney King riots spark mass hysteria across the city
1992
Los Angeles
19) This city was forever changed following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
Sept 11, 2001
New York City
20) Major Japanese nuclear plant accident occurred due to a tsunami and earthquake
2011
Okuma
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