| Day | On this day in... | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1565, this famous Brazilian city is founded | Rio de Janeiro | 95%
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| 10 | 1876, this inventor makes the first telephone call | Alexander Graham Bell | 83%
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| 15 | 44 BC, this dictator is stabbed on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 79%
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| 16 | 1958, the Thunderbird is the 50 millionth automobile produced by this company | Ford | 73%
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| 19 | 1931, gambling is legalized in this state | Nevada | 73%
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| 9 | 1842, the first discovery of gold occurs here | California | 70%
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| 13 | 2013, the 266th Pope is elected | Francis | 68%
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| 2 | 1946, this revolutionary is elected president of North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh | 68%
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| 31 | 1889, this famous Parisian landmark is opened | Eiffel Tower | 65%
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| 30 | 1853, this massively influential Dutch painter is born | Vincent van Gogh | 65%
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| 12 | 1930, this pacifist leads the Salt March | Mahatma Gandhi | 63%
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| 5 | 1770, Crispus Attucks and four other Americans are killed by British soldiers in this city | Boston | 62%
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| 28 | 1969, this famous American general and president passes away | Dwight Eisenhower | 62%
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| 3 | 1991, a video of this man beaten by LAPD officers surfaces | Rodney King | 62%
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| 27 | 1794, Denmark forms a neutrality agreement with this country | Sweden | 59%
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| 21 | 2006, this social media site is founded | 56%
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| 17 | 1941, the National Gallery of Art is opened in this city | Washington D.C. | 54%
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| 14 | 1794, the cotton gin is patented by this inventor | Eli Whitney | 51%
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| 4 | 1980, this nationalist becomes first black PM of Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe | 49%
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| 26 | 1812, an earthquake destroys this Venezuelan city | Caracas | 48%
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| 25 | 1807, the trade of this is banned in the British Empire | Slaves | 46%
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| 18 | 1845, legendary American missionary and apple gardener dies | Johnny Appleseed | 41%
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| 20 | 1602, the Dutch East India Company is founded here | Amsterdam | 38%
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| 11 | 2004, train bombings here kill 191 | Madrid | 38%
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| 24 | 1989, this tanker spills thousands of barrels of oil into Prince William Sound | Exxon Valdez | 35%
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| 22 | 1873, a law is passed to ban slavery on this American island territory | Puerto Rico | 35%
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| 29 | 1947, the Malagasy Uprising occurs on this island | Madagascar | 33%
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| 23 | 1775, this Founding Father says "give me liberty or give me death!" | Patrick Henry | 33%
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| 8 | 1942, Japanese forces capture this Burmese city | Yangon | 32%
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| 7 | 1936, Germany reoccupies this area and violates the Treaty of Versailles | Rhineland | 19%
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| 6 | 1953, succeeds Stalin as leader of the USSR | Georgy Malenkov | 2%
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