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1.1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on what is now which country ?
India
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China
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Morocco
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Mozambique
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2.1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements in what is now which Canadian province ?
New Brunswick
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Ontario
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Nova Scotia
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Quebec
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3.1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes which US state ?
Maine
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New Jersey
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Illinois
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South Carolina
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4.1832 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet is born. She is best known for writing which novel ?
Little Women
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Black Beauty
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Anne of Green Gables
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Lord of the Flies
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5.1899 – Which team that later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams is founded ?
Real Madrid
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Atletico Madrid
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Sevilla FC
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FC Barcelona
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6.1902 – Which team defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league ?
Columbus Panhandles
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Pittsburgh Stars
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Massillon Tigers
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Philadelphia Phillies
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7.1927 – Theodor Geisel marries first wife fellow author and editor Helen Palmer. Theodor is better known by what pen-name ?
Dr Seuss
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Ellery Queen
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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George Orwell
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8.1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over where ?
North Pole
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Australia
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South Pole
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Siberia
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9.1939 – Meco, American record producer and musician is also born. He is best known for his disco version of which film's theme music ?
Jaws
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Battlestar Galactica
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Star Wars
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10.1961 – Project Mercury: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of which island ?
Puerto Rico
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Bermuda
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Madeira
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Hawaii
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11.1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate what ?
Modern Slave Trade
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Corruption in the FBI
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Mafia involvement in the Teamsters
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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12.1963 – Which song, recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom ?
"She Loves You"
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
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"Can't Buy Me Love"
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"Please Please Me"
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13.1972 – Which company releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game ?
Nintendo
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Taito
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Atari
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Sega
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14.1987 – Agents from which country plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew ?
North Korea
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Soviet Union
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France
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Israel
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15.Today is celebrated in the USA by what safety message ?