| Date | Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Feb 2 | 1901 | This queen's funeral is held in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | Queen Victoria | 100%
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| Feb 8 | 1952 | This young princess is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. | Elizabeth II | 96%
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| Feb 6 | 1918 | British women over the age of 30 get this right | voting right | 96%
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| Feb 5 | 1939 | This generalísimo becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España" (Leader of Spain) | F. Franco | 91%
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| Feb 3 | 1468 | This German publisher and inventor of the printing press dies | J.Gutenberg | 87%
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| Feb 26 | 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from this island | Elba | 83%
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| Feb 1 | 2009 | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir becomes this country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government | Iceland | 83%
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| Feb 28 | 2013 | This pope of the Catholic Church resigns | Benedict XVI | 78%
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| Feb 22 | 1997 | British scientists announce that this animal has been successfully cloned | Dolly, sheep | 74%
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| Feb 4 | 1794 | This is abolished by the French legislature throughout all territories | Slavery | 74%
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| Feb 12 | 1502 | This explorer sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India | Vasco da Gama | 74%
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| Feb 7 | 1992 | The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of this organization | the EU | 70%
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| Feb 20 | 1877 | This Tchaikovsky's ballet receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre | Swan Lake | 57%
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| Feb 13 | 1960 | With the success of "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the 4th country to possess this | a nuclear weapon | 52%
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| Feb 21 | 1848 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in this city | London | 52%
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| Feb 10 | 1940 | The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens to this region | Siberia | 43%
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| Feb 25 | 1991 | This organization first created in 1955 by communist countries is declared disbanded | Warsaw Pact | 43%
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| Feb 29 | 1644 | This Dutch explorer begins his second Pacific voyage | Abel Tasman | 35%
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| Feb 9 | 1996 | This synthetic chemical element named after a Polish astronomer is discovered | Copernicium | 35%
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| Feb 23 | 1898 | This writer is imprisoned after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus | Émile Zola | 35%
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| Feb 16 | 1918 | This country sets itself officially free from the German rule (and stays independent until 1940 when it's seized by the USSR) | Lithuania | 30%
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| Feb 24 | 1920 | This party is founded by Anton Drexler | NSDAP | 30%
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| Feb 15 | 1923 | This country is the last in Europe to adopt the Gregorian calendar | Greece | 26%
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| Feb 11 | 2009 | The EU sets this day as the European ___ Day to promote this emergency phone number | 112 | 22%
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| Feb 14 | 1945 | The Dresden bombing in navigational errors turns into the bombing of this other city, as well | Prague | 22%
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| Feb 19 | 356 | Roman Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all of these | pagan temples | 17%
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| Feb 27 | 2015 | Assassination of this Russian politician occurs in central Moscow | Boris Nemtsov | 9%
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| Feb 17 | 1600 | This philosopher and cosmological theorist is burned alive, for heresy, in Rome | G. Bruno | 9%
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| Feb 18 | 2014 | Hundreds of people are killed or injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in this city | Kiev | 4%
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