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1596 – Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerk discover which island ?
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1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the which other nation ?
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1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public what ?
Execution Viewing Platform
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1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on which river ?
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1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight of which indigenous people are murdered ?
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1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in which city ?
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1935 – Dr. Robert Smith founds which organisation in Akron, Ohio, USA ?
Outlaws Motorcycle Club
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International College of Surgeons
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Fedcap Rehabilitation Services
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1940 – World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and which other country ?
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1947 – Which company produces its first automobile ?
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1963 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on what, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy ?
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1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in which state of the US ?
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1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at which airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit ?
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1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until which year ?
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2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes which country's first female saint, Saint Rafqa ?
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2002 – John Gotti, American mobster, dies. What did the media call him ?