| Year | Event | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1960 | This city is founded to serve as Brazil's capital | Brasília | 97%
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| 1967 | Christiaan Barnard conducts the first successful transplantation of this organ | Heart | 96%
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| 1965 | Language in which Catholic masses were usually held until the end of the Second Vatican Council | Latin | 96%
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| 1964 | Zanzibar and Tanganyika merge into this state | Tanzania | 96%
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| 1959 | He replaces Fulgencio Batista as the leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro | 95%
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| 1961 | East German leader Ulbricht claims that "nobody intends to erect" this kind of construction | Wall | 87%
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| 1968 | Following student protests and street battles, this president flees France | Charles de Gaulle | 85%
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| 1966 | Sukarno transfers his executive powers to Suharto, in this country | Indonesia | 82%
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| 1962 | This French colony gains independence after a bloody war | Algeria | 79%
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| 1956 | An attempted revolution in this country is crushed by Soviet intervention | Hungary | 77%
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| 1955 | This Argentine leader is exiled | Juan Perón | 76%
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| 1957 | The European Economic Community, a precursor of this organization, is established | European Union | 74%
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| 1953 | Prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in this country | Persia | 74%
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| 1969 | Yasser Arafat becomes chairman of this Palestine organization | PLO | 74%
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| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer receives this prize for his humanitarian work in Africa | Nobel Peace | 72%
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| 1950 | This secret police is founded in East Germany | Stasi | 65%
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| 1958 | This Gaul warrior makes his comic book debut | Astérix | 60%
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| 1951 | This initiative, officially called the "European Recovery Program", expires | Marshall Plan | 60%
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| 1963 | Report on Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's trial: "The Banality of ___" | Evil | 50%
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| 1954 | This Japanese movie, later remade as "The Magnificent Seven", is released | The Seven Samurai | 49%
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