Statistics for Events in History #1

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Date	Year	Event	% Correct
Sep 1	1939	Germany invades {Poland}	94%
Dec 7	1941	Japanese attack {Pearl} {Harbor}	94%
Jul 20	1969	Man lands on the {moon}	94%
Nov 22	1963	Assassination of {John} {F}. {Kennedy}	93%
Apr 15	1912	Sinking of the {Titanic}	91%
May 2	2011	{Osama} {Bin} {Laden} killed by Navy SEALs	85%
Jun 28	1919	Treaty of {Versailles}	84%
Nov 9	1989	Fall of the {Berlin} {Wall}	82%
Dec 10	1903	{Marie} {Curie} becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize	75%
Mar 15	44 B.C.	{Julius} {Caesar} assassinated	74%
?	79	Pompeii destroyed by the eruption of {Mt}. {Vesuvius}	73%
Dec 26	2004	230,000 people killed by a {tsunami}	71%
May 29	1453	Turks capture the city of {Constantinople}	67%
Jun 4	1989	{Tiananmen} Square massacre	66%
?	1439	Johannes Gutenberg invents the {printing} {press}	62%
Jun 18	1815	Battle of {Waterloo}	57%
Oct 14	1066	Battle of {Hastings}	54%
Sep 1	1715	{Louis} {XIV} dies after ruling France for 72 years	47%
May 20	1498	{Vasco} {da} {Gama} reaches India by sailing around Africa	40%
Jan 1	1804	{Haiti} declares independence from France	35%
May 23	1618	The Thirty Years War is started by the Second Defenestration of {Prague}	23%