Historical Events & Dates II - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Hitler dies in a bunker in Berlin at the age of 56 from a gunshot to the head - 30th April	1945	83%
Saddam Hussein dies in Baghdad at the age of 69, he is executed by hanging - 30 December	2006	78%
Beginning of the French Revolution - Louis XVI & his wife Marie Antoinette are overthrown.	1789	74%
End of French Revolution - Napoleon Bonaparte stages a coup d'état abolishing the Directory and appointing himself France's 'first consul'. 9th November	1799	74%
Josef Stalin dies in Moscow at the age of 74 from a stroke - 5 March	1953	74%
Mao Zedong dies in Beijing China at the age of 82 from a heart attack - 9 September	1976	74%
Kazakhstan becomes first country to gain independence from USSR - 16th December	1991	74%
Start of Battle of Stalingrad - July	1942	70%
End of Battle of Stalingrad, estimated 2 million casualties - February	1943	65%
The Nakba in Palestine, some 750,000 Palestinians are ethnically cleansed from their land. Some 16,000 die.	1948	65%
Johnstown Massacre - The Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones commit mass suicide in Guyana leading to some 900 deaths.	1978	61%
The Dreyfus affair is resolution. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent, was wrongfully convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris in 1894. He is final exonerated in	1906	52%
Soviet invasion of Finland, also called the Winter War.	1939	52%
The Yom Kippur War - a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria attack Israel from 6 to 25 October 1973.	1973	52%
Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest offensive of WW1 - a costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front, resulting in over a million casualties on both sides. July - November	1916	48%
Profumo affair proves to be a major scandal in Britain. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler.	1961	48%
Political Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is captured in Kenya in a join operation between Mossad & Turkey.	1999	43%
Kwame Nkrumah leads Ghana to gain independence from Britain.	1957	35%
First free votes in South Africa, some 19.7 million people vote, as widely expected, the African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela wins the election.	1994	35%
Katyn massacre in Poland, the Soviets kill nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war.	1940	30%
The Romans officially withdrew from Britain.	410	30%
ISIS takes Mosul in Northern Iraq - June	2014	26%
The Lebanese Civil War ends - the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end. Some 150,000 people have died.	1990	17%
The East Timor genocide begins waged by the Indonesian New Order government during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor. Between 60,000 to 308,000 people die.	1975	13%
Netanyahu becomes PM of Israel for the first time.	1996	13%

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