This Month in History - February - Statistics

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Day On this day in... Answer % Correct
7 1962, U.S.A. ends trade with this island country Cuba
86%
16 1933, this period of sobriety comes to a close in America Prohibition
82%
19 1985, William Schroeder becomes the first to recieve an artificial of this organ and leave hospital Heart
78%
3 1959, named coined for the day Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and "The Big Bopper" die in a tragic plane crash The Day the {Music} {Died}
77%
14 1779, this British explorer famous for exploring Newfoundland and the Pacific is killed in Hawaii James Cook
75%
18 1885, this author publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
75%
13 1633, this famous astronomer arrives in Rome for his trial Galileo Galilei
70%
26 1815, Napoleon escapes from this island Elba
66%
21 1848, Engels and Marx publish this The Communist Manifesto
66%
17 2008, this country officially separates from Serbia Kosovo
60%
12 1963, construction begins on the Gateway Arch in this city St. Louis
53%
27 1933, this German parliament building burns, solidifying Nazi power Reichstag
52%
25 1991, this organization, created to oppose NATO, disbands Warsaw Pact
48%
4 1945, the Yalta Conference begins on this peninsula Crimea
47%
23 1945, a famous photograph of Americans raising a flag on this island is taken Iwo Jima
47%
24 1868, he becomes the first president to be impeached Andrew Johnson
42%
1 1865, President Lincoln signs into law this amendment banning involuntary servitude 13th
41%
15 1992, this Milwaukee serial killer is sentenced to life in prison Jeffrey Dahmer
38%
22 1819, the U.S. recieves this from Spain Florida
37%
11 2011, this president of Egypt is ousted by revolution Hosni Mubarak
36%
9 1773, this future US president, who went on to serve the shortest term, is born William Henry Harrison
33%
8 1915, this controversial film by D.W. Griffiths premieres The Birth of a Nation
32%
5 1958, an H-Bomb is lost off the coast of this Georgia city Savannah
30%
20 1991, a memorial statue of Enver Hoxha is destroyed in this country Albania
29%
28 1784, John Wesley charters this sect of the Christian church Methodist
27%
10 1763, the French and Indian War ends and this province is ceded to Great Britain Quebec
21%
6 1958, members of Manchester United and journalists are killed in plane crash here Munich
18%
2 1848, this treaty ends the Mexican-American War Guadalupe Hidalgo
10%
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