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	96%
End of WW2 with the surrender of Japan	1945	96%
Dissolution of the Soviet Union	1991	93%
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.	1968	86%
Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb	1949	79%
Election of Abraham Lincoln	1861	71%
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Nazi Germany	1933	68%
Mao Zedong declares the the People’s Republic of China	1949	64%
First inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt	1933	63%
Watergate break-in scandal leads to Nixon resigning	1972	63%
Fall of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam	1975	61%
Sputnik becomes the first artificial Earth satellite	1957	59%
The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring	1968	59%
Tiananmen Square Massacre	1989	59%
Inauguration of George Washington	1789	57%
Fall of the Berlin Wall	1989	55%
Start of the invasion of Ukraine	2022	55%
Sinking of the Lusitania	1915	54%
Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	1922	54%
United States tests its first hydrogen bomb	1949	54%
Release of OpenAI o1 model	2024	52%
Execution by guillotine of Maximilien Robespierre	1794	50%
Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as president of the US	1981	50%
Invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein’s regime	2003	50%
Xi Jinping becomes the president of China	2013	50%
Hundreds of thousands killed in the Nanjing Massacre	1937	48%
Intolerable Acts passed after the Boston Tea Party	1774	46%
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends the Eastern front in WW1	1918	46%
Start of Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation	1990	46%
USA PATRIOT Act expands surveillance	2001	46%
Roe v. Wade is passed, protecting women’s abortion rights	1973	45%
China joins the World Trade Organization	2001	45%
Passage of the Civil Rights Act, outlawing segregation	1964	43%
Iranian Revolution creates the Islamic Republic	1979	43%
George Orwell publishes 1984	1949	41%
Death of Stalin	1953	41%
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union	1985	41%
English settlers land in Jamestown	1607	39%
Battle of Antietam is the deadliest one-day battle in the US	1862	39%
Beginning of the Holodomor	1932	39%
Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War	1870	38%
Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” condemns the rule of Stalin	1956	38%
Maastricht Treaty is signed, creating the European Union	1992	38%
The Articles of Confederation are ratified	1781	36%
Invasion of Indochina by Japan	1940	36%
The US leaves the gold standard as the Nixon Shock	1971	36%
End of the Shōwa era in Japan	1989	36%
Haiti wins its independence from France	1804	34%
Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as president of the US	1829	34%
Trotsky is exiled from the USSR after a political struggle	1929	34%
Start of the Great Leap Forward	1958	34%
Liu Shaoqi dies in imprisoned after being purged by Mao	1969	34%
The Dow Jones plummets 22.6% on Black Monday	1987	34%
The Communist Manifesto is published by Marx and Engels	1848	32%
Huey Long delivers his “Share Our Wealth” speech	1934	32%
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring	1962	32%
Miranda v. Arizona leads to the Miranda rights	1966	32%
Okinawa is returned to Japanese sovereignty	1972	32%
Deng Xiaoping becomes the paramount leader of the PRC	1978	32%
June Democratic Struggle leads to democracy in Korea	1987	32%
North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect	1994	32%
Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi	2007	32%
Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage	2015	32%
Start of the Meiji Restoration	1868	30%
Start of the Russo-Japanese War in Port Arthur	1904	30%
Theodore Roosevelt creates the Progressive Party	1912	30%
May 15 incident, an attempted coup d’etat in Japan	1932	30%
Xi’an Incident kidnapping leads to the Second United Front	1936	30%
Race riots in Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, etc.	1943	30%
Hart-Celler Act shifts US immigration to Latin America, Asia	1965	30%
Gwangju Uprising is suppressed by South Korean military	1980	30%
Shenzhen becomes China’s first Special Economic Zone	1980	30%
Belt and Road Initiative launched by Xi Jinping	2013	30%
60 killed in Las Vegas shooting in the Route 91 Harvest	2017	30%
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo	1848	29%
Transcontinental Railroad is completed	1869	29%
Satsuma Rebellion against the modernization of Japan	1877	29%
Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States	1944	29%
Peak of the Great Chinese Famine	1960	29%
India develops its first nuclear bomb, the Smiling Buddha	1974	29%
Sampoong Department Store collapse	1995	29%
Charlemagne is crowned as the Holy Roman Empire	800	29%
Fall of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II	1453	27%
Missouri Compromise	1820	27%
Great Chicago Fire	1871	27%
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom against Liliuokalani	1893	27%
Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the First Sino-Japanese War	1895	27%
Landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson	1896	27%
First War of Indian Independence / Sepoy Rebellion	1857	25%
Treaty of Tientsin ends the Second Opium War	1858	25%
April Uprising, a Bulgarian revolt in the Ottoman Empire	1876	25%
Xinhai Revolution ends the Qing Dynasty	1911	25%
Johnson-Reed Act limits immigration with nation quotas	1924	25%
Shanghai Massacre ends the First United Front	1927	25%
Luther publishes his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg	1517	23%
Defenestration of Prague catalyzed the Thirty Year’s War	1618	23%
Treaty of Nanking ends the First opium War	1842	23%
Glorious Revolution overthrows King James II of England	1688	21%
The Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Castille	1494	18%

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