This Day in History - March - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Mar 2	1946	Ho Chi Minh is elected President of this country	North Vietnam	95%
Mar 20	2003	The U.S. invades this country, looking for weapons of mass destruction	Iraq	87%
Mar 8	1957	This canal is re-opened following a crisis which had shut it down	Suez Canal	87%
Mar 15	44 BC	This leader is assassinated on the floor of the Roman Senate	Julius Caesar	85%
Mar 1	1998	This film becomes the first to gross $1 billion worldwide	Titanic	85%
Mar 11	2011	A 9.0 earthquake strikes this country	Japan	84%
Mar 6	1869	Dmitri Mendeleev presents this table to the Russian Chemical Society	Periodic Table	82%
Mar 21	1963	This California prison, known as "The Rock", closes after 29 years	Alcatraz	81%
Mar 18	1992	South Africans pass a referendum to end this practice	Apartheid	81%
Mar 12	1938	In an event known as the Anschluss, this country is annexed by Germany	Austria	79%
Mar 13	2013	This Pope is elected	Francis	79%
Mar 5	1770	British troops massacre five Americans in this city	Boston	75%
Mar 23	1919	This leader founds the Fascist movement	Benito Mussolini	74%
Mar 19	1882	Construction begins on the Sagrada Familia church in this city (It's still under construction today)	Barcelona	71%
Mar 31	1889	This tower, constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, is officially opened	Eiffel Tower	69%
Mar 26	1830	This Latter-Day Saints religious text is published	Book of {Mormon}	68%
Mar 4	1980	Robert Mugabe begins his long and disastrous reign as ruler of this African nation	Zimbabwe	66%
Mar 7	1912	Roald Amundsen's discovery of this location is announced	South Pole	62%
Mar 25	1584	Sir Walter Raleigh is given a royal patent to colonize this U.S. state	Virginia	58%
Mar 10	1969	James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of this leader	Martin Luther King, Jr.	57%
Mar 30	1959	This religious leader enters India, seeking asylum	Dalai Lama	56%
Mar 3	1861	Serfdom is abolished in this country	Russia	55%
Mar 29	1961	The 23rd amendment is ratified, allowing citizens of this city to vote in U.S. Presidential elections	Washington D.C.	54%
Mar 24	1603	This Scottish king becomes King of England	James I	51%
Mar 27	1968	Suharto follows Sukarno as President of this country	Indonesia	50%
Mar 14	1794	Eli Whitney is granted a patent for this invention, increasing the profitability of plantations in the American South	Cotton gin	49%
Mar 28	1854	This war heats up as the U.K. and France declare war on Russia	Crimean War	42%
Mar 17	1969	This woman becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel	Golda Meir	39%
Mar 9	141 BC	Emperor Wu, of this dynasty, begins his 54 year reign as ruler of China	Han	38%
Mar 16	597 BC	Jerusalem is captured by this empire	Babylon	32%
Mar 22	1993	Intel ships this computer chip	Pentium	24%