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1.1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in island group on his first voyage to the New World ?
Azores
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Madeira
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Canary Islands
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Balearic Islands
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2.1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian ships and a fleet from which other empire ?
Ottoman Empire
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Holy Roman Empire
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Persian Empire
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3.1793 – The Rhône and Loire départments of France are created when which former département is split into two ?
Liamone
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Seine-et-Oise
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Bouches-de-l'Escaut
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Rhône-et-Loire
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4.1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first invasion by which nation ?
France
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United Kingdom
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Spain
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Portugal
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5.1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for which invention ?
Gas Street Lantern
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Printing Press
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Sewing Machine
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Milling Process
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6.1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. What animal was the quagga a sub species of ?
Zebra
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Llama
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Antelope
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Wombat
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7.1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on which nation prompting the countries of the British Empire to follow suit ?
Germany
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Austria-Hungary
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Yugoslavia
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Ottoman Empire
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8.1944 – Which city is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces ?
Reims
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Clermont - Ferrand
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Grenoble
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Alençon
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9.1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in which city ?
Berlin
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Moscow
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Rome
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Damascus
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10.1953 – The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s", the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb. What did the US call the bomb ?
Joe 4
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Joe 90
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Joe 1
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Joe 30
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11.1964 – Which country is banned from the Olympic Games due to it's racist policies ?
Saudi Arabia
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North Korea
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South Africa
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Cuba
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12.1981 – A Personal Computer is released by which company ?
Apple
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IBM
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Commodore
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Sinclair
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13.1990 – "Sue", the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in which US state ?
Montana
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North Dakota
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Wyoming
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South Dakota
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14.1949 – Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He is best known as the founder of which band ?
Dire Straits
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Whitesnake
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Police
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Supertramp
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15.Today is known in the UK as the "Glorious Twelfth". It marks the traditional start of the shooting season for which game bird ?