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1888 – Which National society is founded in Washington, D.C.?
National Geographic Society
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National Maritime Historical Society
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National Genealogical Society
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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
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1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire kills 171 people in which Pennsylvania town ?
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1942 – Henry Ford patents an automobile made from what material, which is 30% lighter than a regular car ?
Cardboard / Pressed Paper
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1963 – A Coup d'état in which African country results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio ?
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1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from which New York building ?.
Metropolitan Opera House
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American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building
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Federal Building and Post Office
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2001 – An earthquake hits which Central America country, killing more than 800 ?
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2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to what ?
Collision with another ship
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1926 – Michael Bond, English soldier and author, creator of Paddington Bear, is born in which UK town ?
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1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of which island with the loss of 139 lives ?
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2018 – A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in which US state caused widespread panic ?
11.
January 13th is Democracy Day in which African Island nation ?
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1938 - The Church of England accepts what for the first time ?
Conversions from other Faiths
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1941 – James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet dies in which Swiss city after undergoing surgery ?
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1610 Galileo Galilei discovers which satellite of Jupiter ?
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1917 - A train in which Eastern European country catches fire and explodes, between 800-1,000 die, making it the third worst rail accident in history ?