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1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait is opened and connects the UK mainland to which island? | Anglesey | 67%
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2021 - Pope Francis begins a historic visit amidst the Covid-19 pandemic to which country? | Iraq | 67%
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1946 – Winston Churchill coins which phrase in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri ? | Iron Curtain | 67%
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1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. Which company manufactured it ? | Sinclair Research | 67%
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1872 – George Westinghouse patents which of his inventions ? | Air Brake | 33%
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1824 – The United Kingdom officially declares war on which former country ? | Burma | 33%
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1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to do what ? | Explore Unknown Lands | 33%
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2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through which African country ? | Madagascar | 33%
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1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Volynskoe dacha near which Russian city ? | Moscow | 33%
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1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom, by what name is it better known ? | Supermarine Spitfire | 33%
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1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" is added to the Index of Forbidden Books how many years after it was first published ? | 73 | 0%
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1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use what mode of transport for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines ? | Airships | 0%
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1965 - A leftist uprising occurs against British Colonial Presence in which country? | Bahrain | 0%
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1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in which city ? | Camden, Tennessee | 0%
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1948 – Edmond Montague Grant, better known as Eddy Grant, singer-songwriter and musician was born in which country ? | Guyana | 0%
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1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of where ? | Sardinia | 0%
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