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1420 – An earthquake shakes which desert causing tsunamis thousands of miles away ?
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1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the 1st one built in which modern day country, is destroyed by natives ?
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1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of where by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England ?
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1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in which US state ?
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1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at which place ?.
Kelowna, British Columbia
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Walla Walla, Washington
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1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Telephone Dispatch Company in which city ?
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1897 – The Tremont Street Subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America, in which city ?
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1914 – Which Russian city changes its name to Petrograd ?
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1914 – The last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. What was its name ?
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1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and which other country invade Poland ?
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1952 – Which novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published ?
The Old Man and the Sea
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the conflict known as what ?
North Atlantic Campaign
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1972 – American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion in which city ?
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1981 – A coup d'état in which African country overthrows President David Dacko ?
Central African Republic
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1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of which ship ?