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1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants depart New York to start a settlement in the area that is now known as which country ?
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1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother named what ?
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1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in an air disaster in which city ?
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1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom, at the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in which country ?
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1976 – Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits paying out $3 million in bribes to the Prime Minister's office of which country ?
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1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving which aircraft ?
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1895 – George Herman Ruth Jr. a.k.a. Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach is born in which city ?
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1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Van Diemen's Land, now known as what ?
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1854 - Composer Robert Schumann is saved from a suicide attempt into which European river ?
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1935 - Which board game goes on sale for the first time ?
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1956 - French Prime Minister Guy Mollet is pelted with what on a visit to Algiers ?
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1971 - The first time a golf ball is hit on Moon, but by whom ?
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1987 - What new rule takes effect in all US federal buildings ?
Mandatory Personnel Checks at Entrances
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1997 - English woman Diane Blood won the right to use her dead husband's what ?
Security Access to Parliament
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1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (3 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 49 of what ?