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1.1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes which war ?
Swabian War
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War of the Hungarian Succession
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Russo-Swedish War
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War of the League of Cambrai
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2.1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the trials in which town ?
Lancaster, England
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Torsaker, Sweden
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Salem, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Salzburg, Austria
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3.1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for what crime during the American Revolution ?
Theft
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Spying
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Murder
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Smuggling
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4.1789 – The office of which United States position is established ?
Attorney General
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Secretary of War
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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Postmaster General
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5.1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates that are central to the faith of which religious organisation ?
Church of Scientology
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Church of God in Christ
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Jehovah's Witnesses
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6.1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the which body of water ?
Gulf of Finland
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North Sea
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Bay of Biscay
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Sea of Japan
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7.1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses which ruler as the longest reigning monarch in British history ?
King Henry VIII
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King George III
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King Charles I
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King John
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8.1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain, opens in which city ?
Chester
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London
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Aberdeen
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Brighton
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9.1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in which state before spreading across the United States ?
Pennsylvania
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Maryland
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Vermont
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Michigan
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10.1948 – As part of the Berlin Airlift, Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting what to children ?
Comic Books
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Candy
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Toys
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Clothes
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11.1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate which U.S. President, but is foiled by the Secret Service ?
Richard Nixon
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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12.1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands in which ocean ?
Indian
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North Atlantic
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South Pacific
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Arctic
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13.1980 – Iraq invades which country ?
Kuwait
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Saudi Arabia
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Syria
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Iran
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14.1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history, near which city ?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Mobile, Alabama
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Natchez, Mississippi
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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15.Today is known as what day in the United States ?