What Year? - Statistics

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event	year	% Correct
Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon	1969	97%
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa	1994	90%
Prince dies, aged 57	2016	87%
ABBA wins the Eurovision song contest with Waterloo, their first #1 hit	1974	79%
Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, remaining in office until 1990	1979	77%
The Korean War ends (though technically the war continues to this day)	1953	74%
Britain evacuates 330,000 soldiers fron Dunkirk	1940	69%
Queen Victoria dies, aged 81	1901	67%
India becomes an independent country, on 15 August	1947	64%
Iraq annexes Kuwait, declaring it to be Iraq's 19th province	1990	64%
Athens hosts the first modern summer Olympic Games	1896	59%
Hundreds killed in pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square	1989	56%
USSR invades Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring	1968	54%
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls from 299 to 230 in just 2 days	1929	51%
Panama Canal is opened	1914	49%
UK's Roger Bannister runs the first sub-4 minute mile	1954	41%
Women get the vote in New Zealand, the first in the world to do so	1893	38%
Chamonix, in France, hosts the first Winter Olympics	1924	33%
Canada celebrates its 150th birthday	2017	26%
Evita is performed for the first time, in London's West End	1978	15%

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