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1.1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?
England
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Wales
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France
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Ireland
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2.1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?
Iowa
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Kansas
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Illinois
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Missouri
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3.1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?
Dublin, Ireland
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Glasgow, UK
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Casablanca, Morocco
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4.1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.
Marie Antoinette
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Cleopatra
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Joan of Arc
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William Shakespeare
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5.1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?
El Al Israel
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British Overseas (BOAC)
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Pan Am
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TWA
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6.1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?
Budapest, Hungary
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Valletta, Malta
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Paris, France
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Oslo, Norway
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7.1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?
Optical Laser
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Electron Microscope
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MRI Scanner
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Digital Thermometer
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8.1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?
The Moon
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Mars
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Mercury
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Venus
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9.1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?
Romania
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Yugoslavia
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Albania
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Ukraine
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10.1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?
Alcohol
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Gambling
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Sugar
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Nicotine
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11.1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?
Red Crescent
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US Congress
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World Health Organisation
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Oxford University
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12.2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?
Marrakesh
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Rabat
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Casablanca
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Tangier
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13.2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?
Voting for Women
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Allowing Women to Drive
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Homosexuality
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Immigrant Workers
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14.1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?
Daniel Craig
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Pierce Brosnan
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Roger Moore
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Sean Connery
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15.Today is marked in the US as National what day?