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1.1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture a fortress, thereby establishing the independance of which European microstate ?
Liechtenstein
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Monaco
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San Marino
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Andorra
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2.1790 – In which city does George Washington deliver the first State of the Union address ?
Richmond
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Boston
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New York
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Washington
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3.1816 - Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on which subject?
Elasticity
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Electric Energy
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Volcanic Activity
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Microscopic Algae
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4.1835 – Which country's national debt is zero for the only time ?
France
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United Kingdom
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Mexico
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United States
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5.1940 - Britain's World War II food rationing begins with which three items?
Flour, Sugar, & Pork
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Beef, Fish, & Rice
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Butter, Bread, & Lamb
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Bacon, Butter, & Sugar
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6.1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement dies in which African country ?
Kenya
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South Africa
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Egypt
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Tunisia
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7.1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on _____" , what ?
Drugs
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Poverty
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Terrorism
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Racism
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8.1967 - R. Kelly, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player is born in which city ?
Boston, Massachusetts
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Chicago, Illinois
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Detroit, Michigan
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Atlanta, Georgia
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9.1973 - Actor Michael Caine marries model Shakira Baksh in which US city ?
Los Angeles
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San Francisco
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New Orleans
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Las Vegas
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10.1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Soviet Union, killing seven people. The bombings are attributed to a separatist group from which present day country ?
Kazakhstan
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Lithuania
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Ukraine
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Armenia
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11.1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into which British motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board ?
M 1
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M 25
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M 62
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M 90
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12.1992 - George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits in the lap of which country's Prime Minister?
Japan
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China
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Taiwan
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Papua New Guinea
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13.1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for the Mir space station. He would stay on the space station for a record of how many days in space ?
389
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437
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591
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273
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14.2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by which member of the British Royal family ?
Prince Charles
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Prince Philip
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Princess Anne
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15.2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of which island ?
Midway
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Ascension
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Guam
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Bali
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16.2020 - Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down with the loss of all souls on board shortly after take-off at which airport?