Statistics for This Day in History - August

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Aug 6	1945	An atomic bomb is dropped on this city	Hiroshima	96%
Aug 21	1959	This state becomes the 50th to join the U.S.	Hawaii	94%
Aug 8	1974	This U.S. President resigns	Richard Nixon	93%
Aug 1	1834	This practice is abolished in the British Empire	Slavery	92%
Aug 12	30 BC	This Egyptian ruler commits suicide, possibly snake bite	Cleopatra	90%
Aug 5	1962	This actress is found dead at age 36 in a "probable suicide"	Marilyn Monroe	89%
Aug 24	2006	This Kuiper Belt object is demoted to "dwarf planet" status	Pluto	89%
Aug 13	1961	Borders are closed in this European city	Berlin	88%
Aug 11	1919	The new constitution of this country is signed in the city of Weimar	Germany	87%
Aug 15	1281	For the second time, a "divine wind" destroys the Mongol fleet attempting to invade this island nation	Japan	86%
Aug 31	1997	This celebrity dies in a car crash after being chased by paparazzi	Princess Diana	86%
Aug 25	1875	Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across this body of water	English Channel	81%
Aug 18	1969	Jimi Hendrix plays the American national anthem at this music festival	Woodstock	81%
Aug 7	1974	Philippe Petit walks between these two buildings on a tight rope	World Trade Center	81%
Aug 29	2005	This hurricane makes landfall in Louisiana	Hurricane Katrina	80%
Aug 9	1965	This country gains independence unwillingly after being expelled from Malaysia	Singapore	80%
Aug 30	1963	The so-called "red phone" is established, connecting this city and Moscow	Washington D.C.	78%
Aug 19	1991	A failed coup attempt is launched against this Soviet leader	Mikhail Gorbachev	77%
Aug 14	1980	Lech Wałęsa leads labor strikes in this country	Poland	77%
Aug 17	1807	The world's first commercial steamboat service is started on this river, connecting New York City and Albany	Hudson River	73%
Aug 10	1921	Franklin D. Roosevelt first shows signs of this disease	Polio	73%
Aug 16	1829	Chang and Eng, conjoined twins from this country, arrive in the U.S.	Siam	71%
Aug 3	1778	Opera house "La Scala" opens in this city	Milan	67%
Aug 28	1879	In South Africa, the British capture Cetshwayo, the last king of this tribe	Zulu	67%
Aug 2	216 BC	This Carthaginian general defeats the Romans at the Battle of Cannae	Hannibal	65%
Aug 4	70	Romans destroy the temple in this city	Jerusalem	65%
Aug 26	1768	This explorer sets sail from England aboard the HMS Endeavour	James Cook	64%
Aug 23	1305	This Scottish rebel is executed in London	William Wallace	62%
Aug 27	479 BC	Ancient Greeks win the battles of Plataea and Mycale, ending the attempted invasion by this empire	Persian Empire	61%
Aug 22	1642	This king declares Parliament to be traitors, sparking the English Civil War	Charles I	58%
Aug 20	1882	This Tchaikovsky overture debuts in Moscow, using cannon shots as part of the music	{1812} Overture	44%