Statistics for This Day in History - February

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Feb 4	2004	This website is founded by Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	98%
Feb 15	1965	A maple-leaf design is adopted as the flag of this country	Canada	94%
Feb 18	1930	This dwarf planet is discovered	Pluto	92%
Feb 14	1876	Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for this device	The telephone	91%
Feb 16	1959	This revolutionary becomes leader of Cuba	Fidel Castro	88%
Feb 10	2005	This country announces that it has nuclear weapons	North Korea	87%
Feb 27	1933	The Reichstag building is set on fire in this city	Berlin	83%
Feb 9	1964	This rock band's appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" creates a mania in the United States	The Beatles	82%
Feb 21	1848	Marx and Engels publish this "manifesto"	The Communist Manifesto	80%
Feb 17	2008	This country declares independence from Serbia	Kosovo	79%
Feb 26	1815	This famous leader escapes from the island of Elba	Napoleon Bonaparte	79%
Feb 7	2009	173 are killed by the "Black Saturday" wildfires in this country	Australia	78%
Feb 13	1913	The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims the independence of this country	Tibet	78%
Feb 1	2004	This singer has a "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show	Janet Jackson	75%
Feb 12	1832	This country annexes the Galápagos Islands	Ecuador	73%
Feb 5	1939	This generalísimo becomes leader of Spain	Francisco Franco	73%
Feb 11	1990	In a shocking upset, this boxer is defeated by Buster Douglas	Mike Tyson	68%
Feb 23	1455	This printer publishes his first Bibles	Johannes Gutenberg	65%
Feb 25	1954	Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of this country	Egypt	63%
Feb 6	1819	This Asian city is founded as a trading post for the British Empire by Sir Stamford Raffles	Singapore	61%
Feb 22	2011	This city in New Zealand is struck by a deadly earthquake	Christchurch	59%
Feb 8	1950	The Stasi, secret police of this country, is established	East Germany	59%
Feb 20	1877	This Tchaikovsky ballet premieres at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow	Swan Lake	58%
Feb 28	1991	This war comes to an end	The Gulf War	58%
Feb 3	1959	This musician dies in a plane crash, along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Known as the "Day the Music Died".	Buddy Holly	57%
Feb 2	1922	"Ulysses", by this author, is first published	James Joyce	53%
Feb 29	2004	Jean-Bertrand Aristide is deposed as leader of this country	Haiti	48%
Feb 24	1989	Ayatollah Khomeini offers a $3 million bounty for the death of this author	Salman Rushdie	48%
Feb 19	1986	The Soviet Union launches this space station	Mir	43%