Statistics for On this Day in History: previous events on 2nd October

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	Answer	% Correct
Brigham Young arrested for polygamy. What 'religion' was he head of at the time? (1871)	Mormon	82%
Hunchback (?) future King of England born (1435)	Richard III	79%
Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of which Canadian city (1535)	Montreal	71%
This cartoon strip debuts in nine US newspapers and will become one of the greatest ever (1950)	Peanuts	71%
American Pie singer born (1945)	Don Mclean	54%
Free Fallin singer died (1917)	Tom Petty	43%
The birth, in Porbandar, of one the worlds greatest ever freedom fighters and and philosophers (1869)	Mahatma Gandhi	39%
Sting born, whats his real name? (1951)	Gordon Sumner	36%
Who performs the first test of a working television system (1925)	John Logie Baird	18%
Who declares its independence from France (1958)	Guinea	4%