Statistics for This Day in History - April

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
April 1	1976	This company is founded by Jobs, Wozniak, and Wayne	Apple, Inc	95%
April 3	1888	This London serial killer claims his first victim	Jack the Ripper	93%
April 15	1912	This ship sinks in the northern Atlantic	RMS Titanic	93%
April 14	1865	This leader is shot at Ford's Theatre	Abraham Lincoln	90%
April 6	1974	This Swedish group wins the Eurovision song contest	ABBA	89%
April 20	1889	This historical villain is born in Austria	Adolf Hitler	89%
April 21	753 BC	This city is founded by twin brothers (according to legend)	Rome	89%
April 17	1961	The Bay of Pigs invasion begins in this country	Cuba	87%
April 26	1986	This power plant has a catastrophic meltdown	Chernobyl	86%
April 23	1616	This writer dies at Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare	84%
April 29	2011	This woman marries Prince William	Kate Middleton	81%
April 11	1814	This French leader abdicates	Napoleon	81%
April 7	1906	Naples is devastated by an eruption of this volcano	Mt. Vesuvius	80%
April 25	404 BC	Athens is defeated by this city-state	Sparta	79%
April 12	1861	This war begins at Fort Sumter	American Civil War	78%
April 30	1803	The U.S. nearly doubles in size after purchasing this territory from France	Louisiana Territory	78%
April 16	1943	Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of this drug	LSD	74%
April 28	1945	This former leader is executed by firing squad	Benito Mussolini	73%
April 24	1898	The U.S. declares war on this country	Spain	73%
April 22	1970	This environmental day is celebrated for the first time	Earth Day	72%
April 18	1980	This country, formerly known as Rhodesia, becomes independent	Zimbabwe	70%
April 5	1722	Europeans first make contact with this remote Pacific island, now a part of Chile	Easter Island	69%
April 27	711	Moorish troops invade this European peninsula	Iberia	69%
April 2	742	This Frankish king is born	Charlemagne	67%
April 10	1971	To improve relations, China hosts American athletes in this sport	Table tennis	64%
April 19	2005	This pope is elected	Benedict XVI	59%
April 8	1820	This armless sculpture is discovered on the island of Milos	Venus de Milo	59%
April 9	1241	These steppe raiders decisively beat a Polish army at the Battle of Legnica	Mongols	56%
April 4	1581	This captain is knighted in honor of his circumnavigation of the globe	Francis Drake	55%
April 13	1204	Crusaders capture and loot this Christian capital	Constantinople	54%