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1.668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in Syracuse, Italy. What was he doing at the time ?
Speaking in public
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Eating breakfast
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Taking a bath
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Buying slaves
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2.1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar. The Doom Bar is at the mouth of which British river ?
River Camel
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River Weaver
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River Wear
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River Ouse
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3.1830 – British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive known as what ?
Blücher
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Rocket
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Puffing Billy
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Invicta
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4.1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches which island group ?
Azores
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Falkland Islands
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Canary Islands
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Galápagos Islands
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5.1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in which US city ?
Boston
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Philadelphia
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Nashville
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Des Moines
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6.1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, in which state ?
New South Wales
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Queensland
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Victoria
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Western Australia
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7.1916 – World War I: What are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme ?
Railway Locomotives
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Flame Throwers
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Tanks
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Landmines
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8.1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in which Canadian province as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy ?
New Brunswick
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Quebec
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Alberta
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Saskatchewan
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9.1945 – A hurricane strikes which part of the US, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps ?
New England
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Texas Coastline
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Florida Panhandle
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Southern Florida
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10.1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at what speed ?
671 mph
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723 mph
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590 mph
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836 mph
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11.1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit which nation ?
Canada
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Japan
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12.1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against what ?
Whaling
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Nuclear Testing
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Pollution
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Tuna Fishing
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13.1975 – Which French department is divided into two ?
Corse
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Ile de France
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Alpes-Maritimes
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Haute-Savoie
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14.2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in which city ?
London, UK
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Tokyo, Japan
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Los Angeles, USA
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Sydney, Australia
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15.1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer is born. She was a founding member of which band ?