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1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off the coast of which Greek island ?
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1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from which French port ?
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1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of which Portuguese overseas territory ?
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1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of cancer of which part of his body ?
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1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University in which Balkan city ?
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1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in which city ?
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1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, England. Rayleigh is in which English county ?
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1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in which central American country ?
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1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into which Hall of Fame ?
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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International Tennis Hall of Fame
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Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
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National Baseball Hall of Fame
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1983 – Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. The flight was from Montreal to which city ?
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1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from which nation ?
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1999 – Which Space Shuttle launches, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander ?
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2005 – Three bombs explode, killing 88 people in which Egyptian city ?
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1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress is born. She is best known for her role in which Australian soap opera ?
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Which food is celebrated on this day in the USA ?
National Fortune Cookie Day
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National Caesar Salad Day
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