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1975 – Which film is released in the US, starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters" ? | Jaws | 75%
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1963 – The Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish a permanent link between Washington and Moscow. It becomes known as what ? | Red Telephone Link | 75%
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1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in which city, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre ? | Buenos Aires | 50%
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1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Communists respond by doing what four days later ? | Imposing the Berlin Blockade | 50%
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1945 – The U.S. Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under which operation ? | Operation Paperclip | 50%
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1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of which country, is assassinated ? | Romania | 50%
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1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by pirates of which nationality ? | Algerian | 25%
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1942 – The Holocaust: Four prisoners dressed as SS guards, steal an SS staff car and escape from which concentration camp ? | Auschwitz | 25%
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1940 – John Mahoney, English actor, best known for playing Martin Crane in "Frasier" is born in which British seaside town ? | Blackpool | 25%
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1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England in which town ? | Bridgwater | 25%
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Today is a national food day in the US. What is it called ? | National Vanilla Milkshake Day | 25%
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1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs on the explorer ship "Zarya", from which Russian port never to return ? | St. Petersburg | 25%
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1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in which Canadian city ? | Hamilton, Ontario | 0%
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1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France. It later splits into Mali and which other country ? | Senegal | 0%
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2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in which US city ? | St. Petersburg, Florida | 0%
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