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1.1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, playing in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. How much was he paid ?
$100
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$500
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$1000
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$250
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2.1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between which country and the British Raj ?
China
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Iran
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Afghanistan
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Vietnam
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3.1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on which area of Antarctica ?
Ronne Ice Shelf
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Wilkes Land
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Queen Maud Land
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Ross Ice Shelf
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4.1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ?
Hot Chocolate
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War
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Earth, Wind and Fire
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Four Seasons
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5.1944 – The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, off the coast of which country ?
Norway
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Netherlands
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France
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Finland
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6.1956 – Morocco, Sudan and which other African country join the United Nations ?
Algeria
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Madagascar
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Tunisia
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Ethiopia
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7.1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in which US national park ?
Yellowstone
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Yosemite
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Glacier
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Grand Teton
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8.1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy what with explosives ?
Beached Sperm Whale
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Rockfall
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Old Bridge
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Derelict Truckstop
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9.1977 – Which country conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in a group of 29 tests?
United States
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United Kingdom
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Soviet Union
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France
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10.1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to which planet ?
Uranus
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Saturn
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Jupiter
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Neptune
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11.1981 – Mission STS-2 marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. The mission utilized which Space Shuttle ?
Columbia
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Atlantis
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Challenger
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Discovery
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12.1990 – Who publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web ?
Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Mark Zuckerberg
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13.1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near which city ?
Kuwait City
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Delhi
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Baku
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Dhaka
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14.2003 – Which city's Transrapid train system sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour for unmodified commercial railway systems ?
Tokyo
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Singapore
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Seoul
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Shanghai
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15.Which specific food is celebrated today in the USA ?
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
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