Statistics for This Day in History - December

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Dec 1	1955	This woman refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama	Rosa Parks	95%
Dec 7	1941	This American naval base is attacked by Japan	Pearl Harbor	93%
Dec 10	1901	In Stockholm, these awards are given for the first time	Nobel Prizes	89%
Dec 8	1980	This musician is killed by Mark David Chapman in New York City	John Lennon	83%
Dec 2	1848	Franz Josef I becomes the leader of this empire	Austrian Empire	78%
Dec 19	1998	This politician is impeached	Bill Clinton	78%
Dec 31	1991	This country is officially dissolved	Soviet Union	77%
Dec 17	2011	This notorious dictator dies, leaving his doughy young son in charge	Kim Jong-il	76%
Dec 30	2006	This former Iraqi leader is hanged	Saddam Hussein	76%
Dec 9	1979	This disease is declared to be eradicated	Smallpox	76%
Dec 13	1972	Gene Cernan becomes the last of twelve people to walk here	The Moon	75%
Dec 27	1831	This naturalist embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle	Charles Darwin	73%
Dec 18	1892	This Tchaikovsky ballet is performed for the first time	The Nutcracker	73%
Dec 3	1984	Thousands die after a toxic gas leak near the city of Bhopal in this country	India	72%
Dec 24	1777	This English sea captain discovers Kiritimati, aka, Christmas Island	James Cook	72%
Dec 29	1916	This "mad monk" is murdered in St. Petersburg, Russia	Grigori Rasputin	71%
Dec 11	1936	This British king abdicates	Edward VIII	70%
Dec 26	2004	A deadly tsunami is caused by 9.3 earthquake off the coast of this country	Indonesia	70%
Dec 15	1978	The U.S. announces it will establish official diplomatic relations with China, and sever them with this country	Taiwan	69%
Dec 28	1065	This abbey, burial place of British monarchs, is consecrated	Westminster Abbey	68%
Dec 20	1999	Portugal returns this territory to China	Macau	66%
Dec 5	1933	This period of American history comes to an end, following the ratification of the 21st amendment	Prohibition	66%
Dec 16	1653	This leader becomes Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	63%
Dec 23	1815	"Emma", by this British novelist, is first published	Jane Austen	57%
Dec 14	1994	Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on this river	Yangtze	55%
Dec 21	1988	Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland. This country later admits responsibility.	Libya	53%
Dec 12	1901	This Italian inventor receives the first international radio transmission	Guglielmo Marconi	50%
Dec 6	1998	This socialist is elected President of Venezuela	Hugo Chávez	49%
Dec 25	271	A temple to the sun god Sol Invictus is dedicated in this city	Rome	48%
Dec 22	1942	Hitler orders the mass production of this technically impressive, but largely useless, ballistic missile	V-2	35%
Dec 4	1965	This rock band performs at a California "acid test"	The Grateful Dead	25%

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