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1.1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on a frozen lake watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine in which London park ?
St. James Park
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Hyde Park
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Regent's Park
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Greenwich Park
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2.1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of which nation ?
Denmark
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Indonesia
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Brazil
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Malawi
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3.1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in which city ?
Mobile, Alabama
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Memphis, Tennessee
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Savannah, Georgia
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4.1913 – The first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere begins operation in which city ?
Sao Paulo
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Johannesburg
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Melbourne
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Buenos Aires
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5.1913 – Which motor company introduces the first moving assembly line ?
General Motors
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Peugeot
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Ford
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Toyota
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6.1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of which kingdom ?
Norway
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Denmark
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Sweden
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Belgium
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7.1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against which country ?
United States
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China
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United Kingdom
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France
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8.1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested, an incident which leads to which Alabama city's bus boycott ?
Birmingham
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Montgomery
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Mobile
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Huntsville
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9.1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of what ?
Drug use
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Theft
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Underage drinking
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Attempted arson
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10.1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from which nation ?
Australia
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United Kingdom
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China
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Portugal
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11.1977 – Pinwheel pay TV is launched in the US. It is now known by what name ?
BBC America
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Discovery Channel
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Nickelodeon
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QVC
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12.1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes on which Mediterranean island, killing all 180 people on board ?
Sicily
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Corsica
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Ibiza
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Rhodes
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13.1988 – Which awareness day was proclaimed worldwide for the first time by the UN member states ?
World Refugee Day
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World Braille Day
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International Women's Day
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World AIDS Day
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14.1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed. How far below the seabed is the tunnel ?
40 metres
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50 metres
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20 metres
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100 metres
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15.2017 – A 100-megawatt Tesla Powerpack system, which is the world's largest lithium-ion battery, is launched in Jamestown, in which Australian state ?