Statistics for Famous Dates in History

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Historical Event	Date	% Correct
World War I ended with the signing of the Armistice	11/11/1918	64%
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese	07/12/1941	59%
An atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima	06/08/1945	55%
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center complex in New York City	11/09/2001	55%
The Allies landed in Normandy (D-Day)	06/06/1944	50%
Donald Trump was sworn in as US President	20/01/2017	36%
The Bastille was stormed during the French Revolution	14/07/1789	32%
US President John F Kennedy was assassinated	22/11/1963	32%
Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand	28/06/1914	32%
The Beijing Summer Olympics began	08/08/2008	27%
Adolf Hitler committed suicide	30/04/1945	27%
The fall of the Berlin Wall began	09/11/1989	18%
The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank	15/04/1912	18%
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo	18/06/1815	18%
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon	20/07/1969	18%
Playwright William Shakespeare died	23/04/1616	18%
Thousands gathered in the US capital for the March on Washington	28/08/1963	14%
Saigon was captured by North Vietnamese forces, ending the Vietnam War	30/04/1975	14%
The People's Republic of China was founded by Mao Zedong	01/10/1949	9%
The United Nations was founded	24/10/1945	9%