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1.AD 64 – The Great Fire of _____ causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of which city ?
Rome
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Athens
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London
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Damascus
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2.1545 – The Tudor warship "Mary Rose" sinks off Portsmouth; in which year is the wreck salvaged ?
1971
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2001
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1982
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1994
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3.1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after how many days on the throne ?
Twenty Five
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Nine
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Three
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Fourteen
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4.1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of which US river to England ?
Hudson
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Missouri
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Colorado
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Ohio
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5.1900 – The first line of which city's subway system opens for operation ?
London
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Paris
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Tokyo
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Moscow
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6.1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first of which sporting event ?
Tour de France
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Wimbledon
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New York Marathon
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U S Masters Golf
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7.1940 – World War II: Army Order 112 forms which section of the British Army ?
Bomb Disposal
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Search and Rescue
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Intelligence Corps
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Home Guard
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8.1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in which city ?
Los Angeles
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Tokyo
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Helsinki
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Rome
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9.1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude on X-15 Flight 90. What height in kilometres did he achieve ?
106
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121
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98
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73
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10.1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into which country ?
Laos
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North Vietnam
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Cambodia
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Malaysia
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11.1976 – Sagarmatha National Park is created in which country ?
Mongolia
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Uruguay
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Poland
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Nepal
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12.1977 – The world's first GPS signal was transmitted from Satellite NTS-2 and received at a facility in which city ?
Cheltenham, UK
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Cedar Rapids, USA
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Miyazaki, Japan
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Vaasa, Finland
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13.1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill. What was the name of the other ship ?
Aegean Captain
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Smit Zwarte Zee
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Elisabeth Maersk
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Gemini Star
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14.1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort in which city ?
Marseille, france
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Barcelona, Spain
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Palermo, Italy
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London, UK
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15.1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor is born. He is best known as the inventor of which kitchen appliance ?