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1.1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, is one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, but in which country ?
France
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Switzerland
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Austria
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Italy
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2.1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father abdicates. What was his fathers name ?
James III
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Guy de Lusignan
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Hugh IV
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Janus
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3.1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called what ?
Texas Riders
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Texas Rangers
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Texan Mounties
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Texas Runners
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4.1859 – Charles Darwin publishes which of his works ?
The Descent of Man
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The Voyage of the Beagle
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The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
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On the Origin of Species
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5.1863 – American Civil War: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain near which Tennessee city ?
Memphis
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Chattanooga
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Nashville
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Knoxville
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6.1932 – The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens in which city ?
Washington DC
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New York
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Baltimore
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Miami
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7.1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to which of the Allied forces ?
United Kingdom
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Republic of China
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Free French Forces
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Soviet Union
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8.1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor is born. He is known in his homeland by what nickname ?
The Big Yin
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The Braw Fella
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The Great Eejit
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The Cludgie Bawbag
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9.1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from where ?
Hawaii
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Midway Atoll
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Wake Island
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Northern Mariana Islands
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10.1962 – Which influential British satirical television programme is first broadcast ?
Spitting Image
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Monty Pythons Flying Circus
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That Was The Week That Was
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Have I Got News for You
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11.1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in which ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon ?
Indian
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Pacific
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Atlantic
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Arctic
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12.1971 – A hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money over which US state ?
Washington
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Oregon
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California
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Idaho
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13.1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts for how long ?
Eight months
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Two years
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Eighteen months
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Four months
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14.2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in which Asian capital city kills at least 112 people ?
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Hanoi, Vietnam
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15.2016 – The government of Colombia and the People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's civil war that had lasted for how long ?