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1885 – Which opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London ?
The Pirates of Penzance
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1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard which ship for breach of the Articles of War.
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1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for what invention ?
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1926 – A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. Two hundred forty-eight are killed and 93 wounded, in which country ?
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1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using what ?
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1903 - The first national bird reservation is established in which city ?
Awendaw, South Carolina
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1923 - US President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to do what ?
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1966 - The British film "Born Free", based on the book "Born Free" by which author is released ?
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1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France for what reason ?
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1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Irelands Sinn Féin party, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in which city ?
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1997 - President Clinton trips & injures what part of his body that then requires surgery ?
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2013 - 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in which city ?
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2017 - European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing what ?
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2017 - World's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for the first time in how many years ?
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2019 - Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao, using Google Cloud, has broken the world record for calculating pi, to how many digits ?