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1169 – A strong earthquake strikes the coast of which Mediterranean island, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths ?
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1789 – Who is unanimously elected as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College ?
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1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), how many of the Forty-seven Ronin commit "Seppuku" (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death ?
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1945 – World War II: The Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in which city ?
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1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel on which motorway in England ?
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960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than how many centuries ?
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1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes police officers on an unrelated stake-out in which US city ?
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2004 – Which mainstream online social networking site is founded on this day ?
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1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist is born in which city ?
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1908 - Star #46 was added to the US flag signifying the addition to the Union of which state on November 16, 1907 ?
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1948 - Which country declares independence from UK ?
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Today is a worldwide "Day" of awareness, it is called what ?
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2013 - The authorities of Paris, France annuls a 213 year old law banning women from doing what ?
Ascending to the top level of the Eiffel Tower
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1859 – The "Codex Sinaiticus", one of the oldest known copies of the Bible, is discovered in which African country ?
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1866 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science religious movement, reportedly cures her injuries by what means ?