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