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1.1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds which South American city ?
Quito, Ecuador
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Santiago, Chile
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Lima, Peru
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Montevideo, Uruguay
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2.1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st sighting of what ?
American Bison
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U.F.O.
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Totem Pole
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Captured Polar Bear
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3.1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, what does he name them ?
Sandwich Islands
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Spice Islands
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Fire Islands
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Storm Islands
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4.1788 - Ships carrying what for the first time arrive in Botany Bay Australia ?
Convicts
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Building materials
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Rabbits and other livestock
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Scientists and Botanists
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5.1882 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, playwright and creator of Winnie the Pooh is born in which area of London, England ?
Kilburn
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Elephant and Castle
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Notting Hill
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Greenwich
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6.1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of which ship, named after a US state, anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship ?
USS Maryland
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USS Pennsylvania
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USS Alabama
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USS Wisconsin
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7.1919 - Which luxury car maker is founded on this day ?
Rolls Royce
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Cadillac
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Maserati
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Bentley
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8.1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate dies in London at age 70. He was later to have a crater on which planet named after him ?
Mercury
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Mars
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Venus
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Uranus
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9.1951 - A lie detector is used for the first time in which country?
U.S.A.
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Japan
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Netherlands
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South Africa
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10.1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with which team ?
Toronto Maple Leafs
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Boston Bruins
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Arizona Coyotes
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Edmonton Oilers
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11.1960 – Which airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, their third fatal crash in as many years ?
Capital Airlines
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Pan-Am
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TWA
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Imperial Airlines
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12.1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on the US Billboard Chart with which single ?
Help
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I Want To Hold Your Hand
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Please Please Me
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She Loves You
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13.1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on which TV network ?
ABC
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CBS
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NBC
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PBS
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14.1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for what in an FBI sting operation ?
Money Laundering
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Illegal Alcohol Production
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Prostitution
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Drug Possession
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15.2002 – Civil War is declared over in which African country ?
Burkina Faso
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Sierra Leone
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Equatorial Guinea
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Central African Republic
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16.2023 - A helicopter crash kills 14 including which country's Interior Minister ?