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845 – Paris is sacked by raiders who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. Who were the raiders ?
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1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, is founded. It is the first capital of which country ?
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1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in what year ?
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1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at what type of event at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier ?
Midnight Masquerade Ball
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1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, or Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. It is built between which two rivers ?
Mississippi and Colorado
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St. Lawrence and Hudson
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1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against which nation ?.
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1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the which area of Asia ?
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1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of what in a backyard in Atlanta ?
Southern Comfort liqour
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1942 – The Bombing of which city is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city ?
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1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in which country ?
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1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by which planet ?
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1974 – What was discovered in Shaanxi province, China ?
Section of the Great Wall
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1984 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to which city ?
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1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. Which province ?
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2014 – What is performed in England and Wales for the first time ?
Video Assistant Referee checks
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