100 Years in History - Statistics

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Hint	Year	% Correct
September 11 attacks	2001	100%
End of WW1 in the Treaty of Versailles	1918	97%
End of WW2 with the surrender of Japan	1945	97%
Dissolution of the Soviet Union	1991	91%
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.	1968	86%
Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb	1949	78%
Election of Abraham Lincoln	1861	69%
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Nazi Germany	1933	69%
Mao Zedong declares the the People’s Republic of China	1949	62%
First inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt	1933	60%
Watergate break-in scandal leads to Nixon resigning	1972	60%
Fall of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam	1975	59%
Sputnik becomes the first artificial Earth satellite	1957	57%
The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring	1968	57%
Tiananmen Square Massacre	1989	57%
Inauguration of George Washington	1789	55%
Fall of the Berlin Wall	1989	53%
Start of the invasion of Ukraine	2022	53%
Sinking of the Lusitania	1915	52%
Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	1922	52%
United States tests its first hydrogen bomb	1949	52%
Release of OpenAI o1 model	2024	50%
Execution by guillotine of Maximilien Robespierre	1794	48%
Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as president of the US	1981	48%
Invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein’s regime	2003	48%
Xi Jinping becomes the president of China	2013	48%
Hundreds of thousands killed in the Nanjing Massacre	1937	47%
Intolerable Acts passed after the Boston Tea Party	1774	45%
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends the Eastern front in WW1	1918	45%
Start of Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation	1990	45%
USA PATRIOT Act expands surveillance	2001	45%
Roe v. Wade is passed, protecting women’s abortion rights	1973	43%
China joins the World Trade Organization	2001	43%
Passage of the Civil Rights Act, outlawing segregation	1964	41%
Iranian Revolution creates the Islamic Republic	1979	41%
George Orwell publishes 1984	1949	40%
Death of Stalin	1953	40%
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union	1985	40%
English settlers land in Jamestown	1607	38%
Battle of Antietam is the deadliest one-day battle in the US	1862	38%
Beginning of the Holodomor	1932	38%
Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War	1870	36%
Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” condemns the rule of Stalin	1956	36%
Maastricht Treaty is signed, creating the European Union	1992	36%
The Articles of Confederation are ratified	1781	34%
Invasion of Indochina by Japan	1940	34%
The US leaves the gold standard as the Nixon Shock	1971	34%
End of the Shōwa era in Japan	1989	34%
Haiti wins its independence from France	1804	33%
Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as president of the US	1829	33%
Trotsky is exiled from the USSR after a political struggle	1929	33%
Start of the Great Leap Forward	1958	33%
Liu Shaoqi dies in imprisoned after being purged by Mao	1969	33%
The Dow Jones plummets 22.6% on Black Monday	1987	33%
The Communist Manifesto is published by Marx and Engels	1848	31%
Huey Long delivers his “Share Our Wealth” speech	1934	31%
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring	1962	31%
Miranda v. Arizona leads to the Miranda rights	1966	31%
Okinawa is returned to Japanese sovereignty	1972	31%
Deng Xiaoping becomes the paramount leader of the PRC	1978	31%
June Democratic Struggle leads to democracy in Korea	1987	31%
North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect	1994	31%
Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi	2007	31%
Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage	2015	31%
Start of the Meiji Restoration	1868	29%
Start of the Russo-Japanese War in Port Arthur	1904	29%
Theodore Roosevelt creates the Progressive Party	1912	29%
May 15 incident, an attempted coup d’etat in Japan	1932	29%
Xi’an Incident kidnapping leads to the Second United Front	1936	29%
Race riots in Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, etc.	1943	29%
Hart-Celler Act shifts US immigration to Latin America, Asia	1965	29%
Gwangju Uprising is suppressed by South Korean military	1980	29%
Shenzhen becomes China’s first Special Economic Zone	1980	29%
Belt and Road Initiative launched by Xi Jinping	2013	29%
60 killed in Las Vegas shooting in the Route 91 Harvest	2017	29%
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo	1848	28%
Transcontinental Railroad is completed	1869	28%
Satsuma Rebellion against the modernization of Japan	1877	28%
Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States	1944	28%
Peak of the Great Chinese Famine	1960	28%
India develops its first nuclear bomb, the Smiling Buddha	1974	28%
Sampoong Department Store collapse	1995	28%
Charlemagne is crowned as the Holy Roman Empire	800	28%
Fall of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II	1453	26%
Missouri Compromise	1820	26%
Great Chicago Fire	1871	26%
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom against Liliuokalani	1893	26%
Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the First Sino-Japanese War	1895	26%
Landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson	1896	26%
First War of Indian Independence / Sepoy Rebellion	1857	24%
Treaty of Tientsin ends the Second Opium War	1858	24%
April Uprising, a Bulgarian revolt in the Ottoman Empire	1876	24%
Xinhai Revolution ends the Qing Dynasty	1911	24%
Johnson-Reed Act limits immigration with nation quotas	1924	24%
Shanghai Massacre ends the First United Front	1927	24%
Luther publishes his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg	1517	22%
Defenestration of Prague catalyzed the Thirty Year’s War	1618	22%
Treaty of Nanking ends the First opium War	1842	22%
Glorious Revolution overthrows King James II of England	1688	21%
The Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Castille	1494	17%

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