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1.1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to take revenge by attacking shipping in which area ?
Mediterranean Sea
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English Channel
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Caribbean Sea
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Baltic Sea
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2.1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ?
Depose the King
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Smuggle contraband
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Fraudulently collect taxes
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Fund piracy
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3.1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ?
Ungava Bay
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Baffin Bay
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
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Hudson Bay
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4.1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ?
Paris
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London
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Rome
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New York
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5.1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ?
Luxembourg
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Belgium
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Switzerland
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Denmark
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6.1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ?
Toronto
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Montreal
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Vancouver
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Calgary
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7.1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ?
Tsunami
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Typhoon
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Virus
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Earthquake
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8.1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ?
Warren G. Harding
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Woodrow Wilson
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Herbert Hoover
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William Howard Taft
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9.1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches to Britain. How many ships were in the convoy ?
212
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149
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304
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166
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10.1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. The wreckage would not be found until which year ?
1976
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1998
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2011
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1983
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11.1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ?
Sylt
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Ibiza
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Isle of Man
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Capri
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12.1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ?
Parma
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Bologna
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Verona
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Perugia
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13.1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Pakistan
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Bangladesh
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Zambia
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Namibia
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14.1990 – Iraq invades which country ?
Iran
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Syria
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Jordan
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Kuwait
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15.2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at which airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries but no fatalities ?