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1.474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of which empire ?
Teotihuacan Empire
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Byzantine Empire
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Hephthalite Empire
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Western Roman Empire
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2.1202 – Despite letters from the Pope forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara. Zara is now known by what name ?
Zadar
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Zagreb
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Zurich
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Zenica
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3.1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at the Tun Tavern in which city ?
Boston
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Charlotte
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Washington
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Philadelphia
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4.1847 – The passenger ship "Stephen Whitney" is wrecked in thick fog off the coast of Ireland. The disaster results in the construction of which lighthouse ?
Tuskar Rock
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Eddystone
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Fastnet Rock
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Longships
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5.1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone near which African lake ?
Lake Victoria
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Lake Tanganyika
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Lake Nyasa
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Lake Kivu
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6.1898 – Beginning of the insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. In which city ?
Wilmington, North Carolina
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Charleston, South Carolina
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Savannah, Georgia
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Jacksonville, Florida
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7.1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes which country killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 ?
Romania
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China
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Panama
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New Zealand
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8.1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in which country ?
Canada
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Mexico
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United States
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Cuba
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9.1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts which childrens TV program ?
Flipper
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H.R. Pufnstuf
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The Monkees
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Sesame Street
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10.1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked. Where did it eventually land ?
Bogota, Colombia
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Montreal, Canada
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Havana, Cuba
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11.1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior. Which singer songwriter wrote a song about the event ?
Gordon Lightfoot
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Jim Morrison
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Warren Zevon
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Harry Nilsson
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12.1983 – Bill Gates introduces which version of Windows ?
3.11
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NT
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1.0
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2.10
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13.2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in which city ?
Colombo
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Chennai
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Kandy
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Singapore
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14.2008 – NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost over five months after landing on which planet?
Venus
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Mercury
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Uranus
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Mars
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15.2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in which body of water ?