Date | Year | Event | % Correct |
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Dec 1 | 1955 | {Rosa} {Parks} refuses to give her bus seat to a white passenger | 92%
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Apr 17 | 1961 | The start of the Bay of {Pigs} invasion | 91%
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Sep 30 | 1935 | The {Hoover} Dam is dedicated on the Colorado River | 90%
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Mar 30 | 1867 | U.S. buys {Alaska} from Russia | 88%
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Aug 15 | 1969 | {Woodstock} music festival begins | 87%
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Mar 2 | 1836 | {Texas} declares independence from Mexico | 83%
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Jan 1 | 1863 | Lincoln issues the {Emancipation} Proclamation | 69%
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Dec 7 | 1787 | {Delaware} becomes the 1st state to ratify the Constitution | 66%
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Dec 5 | 1933 | {Prohibition} is repealed by the 21st amendment | 66%
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Jul 1 | 1863 | The Battle of {Gettysburg} begins | 65%
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Nov 11 | 1620 | The {Mayflower} makes landfall in Massachusetts | 65%
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Jun 26 | 1876 | {Custer}'s last stand | 58%
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Oct 26 | 1825 | The {Erie} Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River | 58%
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Dec 26 | 1919 | {Babe} {Ruth} is sold to the Yankees | 55%
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Apr 26 | 1607 | Settlers land at {Jamestown}, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas | 54%
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May 21 | 1927 | {Lindbergh} makes the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris | 53%
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- | 1891 | James Naismith invents {basketball} | 44%
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Dec 29 | 1890 | Native Americans are massacred by U.S. soldiers at {Wounded} {Knee} | 42%
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Jan 8 | 1964 | LBJ declares war on {poverty} | 35%
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July 13 | 1925 | Start of the {Scopes} "monkey trial" in Tennessee | 35%
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