Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1950–1969

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1969	This person becomes the first human to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	99%
1959	This state becomes the 50th in the U.S.	Hawaii	92%
1962	This actress sings "Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy	Marilyn Monroe	89%
1961	The U.S. sponsors the Bay of Pigs invasion of this country	Cuba	87%
1953	This Soviet leader dies	Joseph Stalin	87%
1964	"Mania" ensues as this band visits the U.S.	The Beatles	86%
1963	President Kennedy is assassinated in this American city	Dallas	84%
1957	This Russian satellite becomes the first man-made object to orbit Earth	Sputnik	83%
1950	A major war begins on this Asian peninsula	Korea	80%
1955	The Soviet Union signs this military agreement with seven Eastern Bloc countries	{Warsaw} Pact	73%
1965	This black nationalist leader is assassinated in Harlem	Malcolm X	70%
1956	Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of this country.	Monaco	69%
1958	This former general becomes President of France.	Charles de Gaulle	66%
1951	This television show, starring Lucille Ball, debuts on CBS	I Love Lucy	54%
1968	Viet Cong forces launch a major offensive on this Vietnamese holiday	Tet	52%
1952	Elizabeth II succeeds this king as British monarch	George VI	50%
1966	This "Revolution" begins, replacing traditional Chinese values with Maoist ones	Cultural Revolution	43%
1960	This still-running British soap opera airs for the first time	{Coronation} Street	42%
1967	This rock musical, about a "tribe" of New York hippies, debuts off-Broadway	Hair	39%
1954	Bell Labs demonstrates this silicon device; modern computer chips have billions	Transistor	24%