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1.285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, they are now the patron saints of which professions ?
Bookbinders, authors and librarians
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Blacksmiths and coppersmiths
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Millers, harvesters and bakers
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Leather workers, curriers and shoemakers
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2.1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer which city ?
Lisbon
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Prague
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Gerona
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Florence
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3.1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of which monarch ?
King Edward VI
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King George II
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King Charles II
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King Edward V
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4.1854 – Which battle, memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade, takes place during the Crimean War ?
Siege of Sevastopol
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Battle of Malakoff
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Battle of Balaclava
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Battle of Inkerman
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5.1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain is born. He was known by what nickname ?
Doctor Death
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Klaus the Ripper
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Torturer General
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Butcher of Lyon
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6.1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies in which English prison ?
Brixton
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Strangeways
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Dartmoor
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Durham
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7.1927 – The Italian luxury liner "SS Principessa Mafalda" sinks off the coast of which country ?
Senegal
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Brazil
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Spain
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Argentina
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8.1944 – Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by what ?
An enemy torpedo
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Floating mine
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The ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
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Kamikaze plane
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9.1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade which country, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is executed in a coup d'état ?
Haiti
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Grenada
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Dominican Republic
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Guatemala
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10.1993 – Vincent Price, American actor dies. He is best known for which genre of film ?
Horror
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Comedy
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Romance
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Adventure
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11.1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of which country ?
Republic of the Congo
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Angola
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Cameroon
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Sierra Leone
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12.2010 – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in which country ?
Sri Lanka
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India
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Indonesia
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Papua New Guinea
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13.2015 – More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in which U.S. state after officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years ?
Alabama
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Montana
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Florida
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Maine
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14.2019 – Hundreds of tourists flock to which natural landmark to climb it for the last time before a ban on climbing goes into effect ?