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1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with which wife of Henry VIII ?
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1768 – The first edition of which reference book is published ?
Encyclopædia Britannica
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Oxford English Dictionary
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1817 – Which state becomes the 20th U.S. state ?
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1884 – Which novel by Mark Twain is published for the first time ?
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
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1896 – Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris. What happened at the end of the performance ?
Rotten vegetables were thrown on stage
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The actors were carried aloft to a bar
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1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on which anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death ?
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1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam on which African river ?
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1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals in which English city ?
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1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy ships "HMS Prince of Wales" and "HMS Repulse" are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near which land mass ?
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1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in which field ?
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1963 – Which island gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah ?
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1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in which city ?
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1983 – Democracy is restored in which country with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín ?
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1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of which country, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election ?
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2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in which city kill 38 people and injure 166 others ?