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1. 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots on the death of her father, James V of Scotland. How old was she ?
2. 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in which Austrian city ?
3. 1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in which New York state city ?
4. 1812 – The French invasion comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from which nation ?
5. 1896 – Which European city's underground railway is opened ?
6. 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to which other city ?
7. 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party at the Hotel Savoy in which South American city ?
8. 1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs. It was renowned for what reason ?
9. 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading which country ?
10. 1940 – Which element is first isolated at Berkeley, California ?
11. 1941 – World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with which Asian nation ?
12. 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by which planet ?
13. 1972 – Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon. To this day in 2020 how many people have walked on the Moon ?
14. 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on which river ?
15. 2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws what at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq ?
I purposely left that event out as I thought it was too extreme!