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1.1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in which city ?
New York
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San Francisco
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Philadelphia
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New Orleans
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2.1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in which country ?
Sweden
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Norway
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Ireland
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Spain
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3.1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of which religious organisation ?
Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church
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Free Church of Scotland
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Swedish Evangelical Mission
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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4.1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in which newspaper ?
Washington Post
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Chicago Tribune
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New York Times
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Los Angeles Times
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5.1936 – Which magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success ?
Life
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Vogue
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National Geographic
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Reader's Digest
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6.1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to the north of which island group ?
Azores
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Faroes
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Canaries
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Maldives
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7.1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over which of the Great Lakes ?
Huron
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Erie
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Michigan
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Superior
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8.1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of which nation ?
New Zealand
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Jamaica
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Australia
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Fiji
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9.1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals" in a speech made in which French city ?
Amiens
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Strasbourg
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Nice
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Bordeaux
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10.1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child", the first episode of the first story from the first series of which long running TV show ?
Dr. Who
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The Sky at Night
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Coronation Street
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The Twilight Zone
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11.1974 – Sixty politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government in which African city ?
Khartoum
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Addis Ababa
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Mogadishu
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Harare
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12.1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress is born. What was the name of her character in the Disney Channel teen series ?
Jane Maine
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Rona Arizona
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Claire Delaware
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Hannah Montana
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13.1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of which country after running out of fuel ?
Seychelles
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Madagascar
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Comoros
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Mauritius
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14.2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first woman to lead an African country when she is elected president of which nation ?
Liberia
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Togo
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Ghana
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Burkina Faso
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15.2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean after hitting an iceberg near which island group ?