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1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?
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1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?
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1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?
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1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.
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1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?
British Overseas (BOAC)
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1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?
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1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?
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1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?
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1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?
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1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?
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1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?
World Health Organisation
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2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?
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2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?
Allowing Women to Drive
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1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?
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Today is marked in the US as National what day?
National Paper Airplane Day
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National Take Your Dog to Work Day
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