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September Happenings Quiz

These things happen(ed) in September. Based on the clues, guess what they are.

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer
Sep 1	1939	Germany invades this country
Sep 2	1945	Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of this country
Sep 3	1943	Allied forces invade this country
Sep 4	2006	This television star is killed by a stingray
Sep 5	1666	This city's "Great Fire" comes to end
Sep 6	1995	This baseball player plays in his 2,131st consecutive game
Sep 7	1986	Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop in this country
Sep 8	1974	He is pardoned by Gerald Ford
Sep 9	1543	She is crowned "Queen of Scots"
Sep 10	1967	The people of this territory vote to remain a British dependency, rather than revert to Spain
Sep 11	2001	Terrorists destroy the World Trade Center in this city
Sep 12	1953	He marries Jacqueline Bouvier
Sep 13	1996	This rapper is killed in Las Vegas
Sep 14	1982	This actress, the Princess of Monaco, dies in a car accident
Sep 15	1950	U.S. forces land at Inchon, during this war
Sep 16	1620	This Pilgrim ship begins her voyage to America
Sep 17	2011	This movement begins in New York's Zucotti Park
Sep 18	1970	This guitarist dies in London, at age 27
Sep 19	1995	American newspapers print the "Manifesto" of this terrorist
Sep 20	2011	This policy comes to an end. For the first time, openly gay soldiers can serve in the US military
Sep 21	1937	This J.R.R. Tolkien book is published
Sep 22	1994	This sitcom debuts on NBC
Sep 23	1973	Juan Perón returns to power in this country
Sep 24	1957	Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, opens in this city
Sep 25	1981	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female member of this body
Sep 26	1580	This English sea captain finishes his circumnavigation of the globe
Sep 27	1996	This militant Islamist faction captures Kabul
Sep 28	1928	Alexander Fleming discovers this miracle drug
Sep 29	1938	At a conference in this city, European leaders agree to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia
Sep 30	1955	This young movie star dies in a car crash

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bebn123

Apparently Tupac invented rap music more than eighty years before the Sugarhill Gang supposedly did. Even weirder, I'm sure I was alive when he died. {In case I'm being too subtle (not likely), I'm trying to say that Tupac definitely wasn't shot in 1899.}

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GymnastPunk

I was thinking the same thing! Better change that typo, Quizmaster!

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Nate

he first faked his death in 1899 only to re-emerge into the 1990s rap scene, then again faked his death again in 1999

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Quizmaster

Haha. Fixed. Also, this.

Sep 9, 2012 delete

On the Gilbraltar answer - it says "rather then revert to Spain". This should be "rather than ..."

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