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1.1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits which city ?
Constantinople
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Rome
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Athens
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Lisbon
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2.1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland takes place near which town ?
Dumfries
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Carlisle
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Musselburgh
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Alnwick
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3.1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in which city ?
Copenhagen
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Brugges
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Utrecht
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Hamburg
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4.1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for which type of device ?
Sewing Machine
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Printing Press
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Microscope
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Cooking Utensil
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5.1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. How many more asteroids did he discover ?
over 100
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12
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None
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3
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6.1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. What was the empress' nickname ?
Lillibut
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Sisi
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Betty
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Liza
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7.1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at which British stadium ?
Belle Vue, Manchester
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White City, London
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Loomer Road, Stoke on Trent
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Wembley, London
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8.1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address what problem in the Mediterranean Sea ?
International Piracy
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Water Pollution
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Beach Quality
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Refugees
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9.1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of which country ?
United Kingdom
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Norway
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Germany
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Denmark
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10.1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on which island ?
Sicily
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Crete
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Java
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Madagascar
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11.1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal. What event did he win ?
Weightlifting
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1500 metres
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Marathon
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Diving
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12.1967 – The people of which overseas territory vote to remain a British dependency ?
Cayman Islands
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Gibraltar
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Virgin Islands
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Pitcairn Islands
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13.1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by what means ?
Guillotine
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Crucifixion
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Garrote
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Dismemberment
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14.2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the civil war in which country ?
Cameroon
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Angola
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Rwanda
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Sierra Leone
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15.2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in which Swiss city ?