Years by Wikipedia Descriptions - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Berlin Wall fell and finally the Eastern Bloc collapsed	1989	93%
On July 4 .... it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress	1776	80%
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June.... by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.	1914	80%
The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution	1917	80%
The president "was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository"	1963	80%
William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme	1066	73%
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city (Hiroshima).	1945	73%
On the 14th (of July), many of these soldiers joined the mob in attacking the Bastille	1789	60%
She was interred beside Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore at Windsor Great Park	1901	60%
Like the Duke of Wellington in 1852 and William Gladstone in 1898, Churchill was given a state funeral	1965	60%
The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane shortly after midnight on Sunday 2 September, and spread rapidly	1666	53%
Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio	1836	53%
A team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings excavated Tutankhamun's tomb	1922	53%
By jumping 8.90 m (29 ft 2+1⁄4 in), (Bob Beamon) broke the existing r(long jump) record by a margin of 55 cm (21 and 3/4 in) and his world record stood (for over 20 years) until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell.	1968	53%
The win gave Brazil its third World Cup title, which allowed them to permanently keep the Jules Rimet Trophy	1970	53%
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday	1916	47%
The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.	1886	40%
The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp	1840	33%
The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts in which military forces used modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways and telegraphs. (please give the year the war started)	1853	33%
By the time of his (Muhammad's) death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam	632	13%

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