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Events in History #1

We give you the date. You tell us what happened. (Fill in the blanks).
This one's a lot of doom and gloom - sorry!
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First submittedApril 14, 2011
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Date
Year
Event
May 2
2011
Osama Bin Laden killed
by Navy SEALs
Dec 26
2004
230,000 people killed by
a tsunami
Nov 9
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Jun 4
1989
Tiananmen Square massacre
Jul 20
1969
Man lands on the moon
Nov 22
1963
Assassination of
John F. Kennedy
Dec 7
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
Sep 1
1939
Germany invades Poland
Jun 28
1919
Treaty of Versailles
Apr 15
1912
Sinking of the Titanic
Dec 10
1903
Marie Curie becomes the first
woman to win a Nobel Prize
Jun 18
1815
Battle of Waterloo
Date
Year
Event
Jan 1
1804
Haiti declares independence
from France
Sep 1
1715
Louis XIV dies after ruling
France for 72 years
May 23
1618
The Thirty Years War is started by
the Second Defenestration of Prague
May 20
1498
Vasco da Gama reaches India
by sailing around Africa
May 29
1453
Turks capture the city of
Constantinople
?
1439
Johannes Gutenberg invents the
printing press
Oct 14
1066
Battle of Hastings
Mar 15
44 B.C.
Julius Caesar assassinated
?
79
Pompeii destroyed by the eruption
of Mt. Vesuvius
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65 Comments
JenkinsEar
+15
Level 90
Aug 25, 2013
This isn't a nitpicking comment. It's just to say that November 22, 1963 was also the day C.S. Lewis died. This year he gets a memorial in Westminster Abbey!
Eliotbliss
+34
Level 73
Aug 25, 2013
I'm pretty sure that in the historical and political perspectives JFK's assassination might be slightly more important.
ZacG
+12
Level 57
Sep 1, 2013
i beg to disagree
ChrisInAfrica
+2
Level 24
Jan 10, 2016
Depends whether or not you are talking to an American. ;). But probably you are right
Danno
+12
Level 68
Jun 17, 2016
n either case CS Lewis was not assassinated.
PitifulExcuse
+2
Level 62
Feb 6, 2024
or was he? Seems quite a coincidence that he died on this day of all days. an ideal distraction, no?
kalbahamut
+23
Level 81
Oct 10, 2017
I loved Lewis as a child, but he died in his 60s. His work had been done. Kennedy, overrated as a politician or not, was cut down in his prime and we will never know if he would have managed to do more good had he not been.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jun 28, 2018
Carl Lewis?
POOCH
+11
Level 72
Jul 17, 2018
helen790, your comment breaks my heart on several levels. Before you make a comment like that, please do a little more study of the subject. As an American.I defend your right to make that kind of statement, but I also regret the lack of historical knowledge and perspective that would lead you to make it. Regardless of your political or personal beliefs, murder is never a good answer. The killings of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King may have ended untold possibilities for our country and that makes me very sad.
Djilas
+3
Level 83
Jul 18, 2018
If literature is forever, what changes when the author dies years after its creation?
samiamco
+7
Level 69
Sep 10, 2018
Geez, helen790, how about exhibiting a little more class and compassion and a little less snarky callousness? I don't care if JFK was a White House janitor whose family you didn't approve of, the man was MURDERED barely into middle age. His death was a profound emotional loss to not only to his friends and family, but to hundreds of millions of Americans, who, regardless of whether they voted for him or not, really don't like people going around assassinating our heads of state. It's an event that touches our national consciousness still. I would suggest that you could have made your point about C.S. Lewis' importance to literature without implying that President Kennedy had getting shot in the head coming to him, just because he had the bad manners to be born into wealth.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 89
Dec 3, 2018
I have studied the Zapruder film of Lewis's collapse and it's confirmed that Tolkien had him killed so he could be the leader of fantasy fiction.
Sifhraven
+5
Level 72
Jun 16, 2019
@eliotbliss You didnt read at all what he said did you... he just wanted to mention this fact... it has nothing to do with the clue that is currently used. Just a bit of trivia for those who are interested

(plus you can argue about your opinion, important to whom?)

dt1
+2
Level 43
Aug 26, 2013
What about Aldous Huxley while you are at it.
divantilya
+2
Level 36
Jul 3, 2017
But he wasn't assassinated!
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 61
Nov 14, 2023
(Also to the other people below you.) The comment literally starts with "This isn't a nitpicking comment."
Beegee1601
+1
Level 29
Feb 11, 2018
He wasn't assassinated though.
roleybob
+4
Level 75
Jun 13, 2018
Assassinated, however, he was not.!
ChrisInAfrica
+3
Level 24
Jan 10, 2016
I totally expected to see 9/11 on here... I guess that is too easy.
IsleAuHaulte
+4
Level 89
Dec 3, 2018
Younger people don't know what date 9/11 happened so.....
divantilya
+11
Level 36
Apr 6, 2020
^ Young people don't remember 9/11 but they remember 44 AD and 1815?
EvanAviator
+2
Level 59
Sep 13, 2021
what younger people are you talking to??? lol
acnhtex
+2
Level 64
May 3, 2022
young people know when 9/11 happened, they just weren't alive for it or they were too young to remember it
ItsNotIvy911
+1
Level 45
May 16, 2023
Uhhh 9/11 is my birthday so I do know it as a young person-
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
What are you talking about? 9/11 is on there! The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9th 1989.
moparornocar
+1
Level 20
Jan 11, 2016
Uncle BS, where were you on (this date)......
jajaco2017
+1
Level 57
Feb 10, 2017
please accept Konstantinopel
nightmare
+7
Level 66
Apr 10, 2017
Always find it odd that the battle of hastings is a historically important event as both battle and hastings are just down the road from where i live (yes the place where the actual fighting took place is now called battle)
Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
Jun 16, 2019
That is interesting :)
VirusSlo
+3
Level 70
Jul 17, 2018
Louis XIV died Sep 1 not Mar 1.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Jul 17, 2018
Fixed
undeadwarrior
+4
Level 64
Jul 17, 2018
How exactly does one kill a city (twice?!?!?) by pushing this city out of a window?
Djilas
+1
Level 83
Jul 18, 2018
And how do you battle a city?
joeythelemur
+5
Level 83
Dec 21, 2018
Defenestration is a fun word!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Jun 16, 2019
it is
Account
+1
Level 59
Jun 16, 2019
Origin is the latin word defenestrare
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 66
Apr 5, 2022
@undeadwarrior - kill a city by pushing it out of window?! don't mean to be rude but uh.... where'd you get that from??
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 61
Nov 14, 2023
From "Second Defenestration of ______"
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 66
May 24, 2024
~sarcasm~
VelikyNovgorod4
+1
Level 43
Oct 5, 2018
I put in Louis and got nothing also Battle of Waterloo feels a little cheeky because i'm not good with dates. I ended up putting in battle of New Orleans instead of Waterloo but that's probably because i'm American.
Corrode
+10
Level 60
Dec 3, 2018
"Louis" is the name of 18 different French kings, just putting that isn't really getting it right. And Waterloo is one of the definitive moments in world history, there's nothing "cheeky" about including it.
Arii78
+1
Level 45
Dec 10, 2018
*Actually just 17 french kings. :P (The 17th one wasn't king, and actually no one even knows if he existed.)
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
What do you mean? Of course he existed! He just died very young, which is now confirmed by science (they DNA-tested his preserved heart). Royalists have long pretended that he survived, which isn't the only thing they were completely wrong about.
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
And he never reigned, of course, which my be more to your point.
martay
+14
Level 70
Dec 3, 2018
Throw me out of a window once, shame on me. Throw me out of a window twice... we'll have to stop meeting above the ground the floor.
Antimatter
+2
Level 45
Dec 3, 2018
Looked deceptively easy at first, then got progressively harder as I scrolled down the page! Good quiz :)
Arii78
+3
Level 45
Dec 10, 2018
I think the first question should have an indication of place. At the very least a continent. This is just vague.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Jun 16, 2019
I agree with the vagueness. A different type of description could have been used. I dont think most people know the date bin laden was killed and well, I dont know all the things the seals did.. If the clue was something like; leader of terrorist group or something it would ve been more clear. (or someone hiding in the mountains..)
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
But the idea is to know things, not to guess them!
Arii78
+2
Level 45
Dec 10, 2018
Wow, I had no idea Haiti's declaration of independance happened at the same time Napoleon took power.

Why did no one teach me that in school ? Really, why ?

FolgoreCZ
+5
Level 59
Jan 10, 2019
If you live in France or Haiti, then that is really sad. If you live anywhere else then it might be because it isn't really that important.
divantilya
+8
Level 36
Mar 3, 2019
It's important because it was the first instance (in the "New World") of a slave revolt being successful and leading to the creation of a new nation. It is pitiful that today, some 216 years later, the vast majority of the people on the island still live in abject poverty.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
Jun 16, 2019
I missed the word woman somehow.. otherwise I would ve gotten the nobel prize one. Plus it didt accept louis, I think this is the only quiz ( atleast so far I've seen, and I ve come across louis en henry plenty of times) that the number is required. I dont find it a good or a bad thing. But consistency would be nice.. I figured I was wrong when it didnt accept louis and moved on.
rtabram
+3
Level 59
Sep 20, 2019
According to Wikipedia, it was the Third Defenestration of Prague that precipitated the Thirty Years War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

(I had to look it up since I had no idea what this was.)

Brollface
+2
Level 65
Apr 25, 2020
Truly sad most people don't know how one of the most important wars in history was initiated.
JakobOD
+4
Level 53
Jun 9, 2020
Marie Sklodowska or Marie Sklodowska Curie should also be accepted since this is the full/real name of this Polish physicist and chemist :)
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
Mar 7, 2022
What kind of crazy person would want to type that?
Yeoryios
+3
Level 72
Sep 8, 2020
Why is Caesar infront of Pompeii? Pompeii happened after
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Feb 22, 2021
Yeah weird that it jolted forward by 150 years...!

Should also add something like Spartacus/Alexander/Peloponnesian War/Xerxes to make the columns more symmetrical.

JamesVI
+1
Level 65
Jan 13, 2021
One of these things is not like the others...
MLR824
+2
Level 75
Jun 14, 2021
Sun King for Louis XIV?
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 69
Jul 27, 2021
Only missed Prague
Murphster45
+2
Level 89
Nov 4, 2021
If the answers are meant to be from latest to earliest, shouldn't 44 B.C. be after 79 AD? All the other dates are in chronological order.
uranium235
+1
Level 56
Mar 9, 2022
Expected to see the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the list.
Yoshimano
+1
Level 65
May 8, 2024
**MT** Vesuvius ? -___-
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