Statistics for This Day in History - January

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Jan 3	1959	This state becomes the 49th to join the U.S.	Alaska	95%
Jan 4	2010	Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, opens in this city	Dubai	95%
Jan 1	2002	This currency enters circulation for the first time	Euro	95%
Jan 20	2009	This man becomes the first black President of the U.S.	Barack Obama	93%
Jan 10	49 BC	This general crosses the Rubicon	Julius Caesar	90%
Jan 21	1793	This device is used to execute Louis XVI of France	Guillotine	89%
Jan 22	1901	This queen dies after reigning for 63 years	Queen Victoria	89%
Jan 9	1349	Jewish residents in Basel, Switzerland are slaughtered after being blamed for this pandemic	Black Death	87%
Jan 2	1492	Christians capture Granada, completing the reconquest of this country	Spain	87%
Jan 17	1929	This spinach-guzzling cartoon character appears for the first time	Popeye	84%
Jan 26	1924	This city is renamed Leningrad	Petrograd	83%
Jan 7	1610	This scientist discovers the four largest moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	82%
Jan 30	1969	This band performs for the last time, on the roof of Apple Records	The Beatles	82%
Jan 5	1914	This manufacturing company doubles pay to $5 a day	Ford	81%
Jan 19	1981	The U.S. secures the release of hostages held by this country	Iran	81%
Jan 18	1778	This British sea captain discovers Hawaii	James Cook	80%
Jan 11	1964	The American surgeon general warns that this activity may be hazardous to one's health	Smoking	79%
Jan 31	2010	This film becomes the first to gross $2 billion worldwide	Avatar	78%
Jan 16	27 BC	This man becomes the first Roman emperor	Augustus	77%
Jan 25	1533	This woman becomes the second wife of Henry VIII	Anne Boleyn	75%
Jan 8	1959	This man becomes the first President of France during the Fifth Republic era	Charles de Gaulle	71%
Jan 23	1368	This dynasty comes to power in China	Ming	69%
Jan 27	1984	This pop singer's hair catches fire while filming a Pepsi commercial	Michael Jackson	68%
Jan 12	2010	100,000 people are killed by an earthquake in this country	Haiti	67%
Jan 28	1986	This space shuttle explodes	Challenger	66%
Jan 14	1953	Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as President of this country	Yugoslavia	65%
Jan 29	1820	This "mad king" dies	George III	62%
Jan 13	1968	This singer performs at Folsom State Prison	Johnny Cash	60%
Jan 15	1892	James Naismith publishes the rules to this game	Basketball	58%
Jan 24	41	This depraved Roman emperor is assassinated	Caligula	55%
Jan 6	1066	This last Anglo-Saxon king of England is crowned. He would be killed at the Battle of Hastings just 10 months later.	Harold Godwinson	48%