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1.1356 – Hundred Years War: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II in a battle at which place ?
Toulouse
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Poitiers
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Perpignan
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Nancy
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2.1846 – Two French shepherd children experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop now known as Our Lady of La Salette in which mountain range ?
French Alps
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Pyrenees
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Massif Central
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Vosges
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3.1852 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the Observatory of Capodimonte. Massalia is approximately how many kilometers in diameter ?
260
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450
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90
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145
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4.1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, in the Northwest of which state ?
Kentucky
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Virginia
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Georgia
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Ohio
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5.1868 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain. What is La Gloriosa ?
Revolution
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Public Holiday
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Pilgrimage
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Festival
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6.1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for how long before surrendering ?
Eight weeks
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Four months
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Six months
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Two weeks
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7.1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Who becomes President upon Garfield's death ?
Grover Cleveland
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Benjamin Harrison
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Chester A. Arthur
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8.1916 – World War I: Colonial forces of the Belgian Congo capture the town of Tabora. In which country was Tabora ?
German East Africa
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Togoland
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German South West Africa
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Kamerun
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9.1944 – World War II: The Battle of Hurtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. Where is Hurtgen Forest ?
Belgium
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Luxembourg
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Germany
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France
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10.1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by which world leader at the University of Zurich ?
Charles de Gaulle
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Winston Churchill
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Harry S. Truman
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King George VI
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11.1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. How much did a ticket cost ?
£5
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£10
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£1
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£20
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12.1978 – Which island nation joins the United Nations ?
St. Kitts and Nevis
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Solomon Islands
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Marshall Islands
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Cape Verde
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13.1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. What were they ?
:-D and :-)
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=) and =(
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:-) and :-(
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'_' and *_*
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14.1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. He lived around which year ?
3300 BCE
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2100 BCE
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1700 BCE
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4500 BCE
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15.2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in which country ?