Statistics for This Day in History - July

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
July 4	1776	This country declares its independence from Great Britain	United States	97%
July 9	2011	This country becomes independent from Sudan	South Sudan	92%
July 28	1914	This "war to end all wars" begins	World War I	92%
July 13	1923	This famous sign is dedicated in the hills above Los Angeles. (The last four letters would be dropped in 1949)	Hollywoodland	91%
July 18	1955	This theme park opens in Anaheim, California	Disneyland	89%
July 20	1969	People walk here for the first time	The Moon	89%
July 8	1994	This North Korean leader dies after a reign of 45 years	Kim Il-Sung	88%
July 16	1945	This device is tested for the first time (in New Mexico)	Atomic Bomb	87%
July 14	1789	This prison is stormed by the citizens of Paris, who find just 7 prisoners inside	La Bastille	84%
July 2	1937	This aviatrix goes missing over the Pacific Ocean	Amelia Earhart	83%
July 19	64	This emperor allegedly fiddles while Rome burns	Nero	81%
July 27	1890	This Dutch artist shoots himself	Vincent Van Gogh	78%
July 3	1863	This battle, the bloodiest of the U.S. Civil War, comes to an end	Gettysburg	77%
July 15	1099	This city is conquered by Crusaders	Jerusalem	77%
July 10	1925	The Scopes "monkey trial" begins, in which a teacher in Tennessee is accused of teaching this scientific theory	Evolution	74%
July 7	1953	This beret-wearing troublemaker sets out on a motorcycle journey through Latin America	Che Guevara	71%
July 23	2011	This British singer dies of alcohol poisoning	Amy Winehouse	70%
July 17	1936	Civil war erupts in this country	Spain	69%
July 21	1970	The Aswan Dam is completed in this country	Egypt	68%
July 22	1992	This drug lord escapes from his luxury prison near Medellín	Pablo Escobar	68%
July 5	1687	This scientist publishes "Principia Mathematica"	Isaac Newton	67%
July 12	1561	St. Basil's cathedral is consecrated in this city	Moscow	67%
July 26	1952	This Argentinian first lady dies at age 33	Eva Peron	65%
July 24	1847	Brigham Young establishes this city	Salt Lake City	64%
July 11	1804	This duelist is fatally wounded by Aaron Burr	Alexander Hamilton	63%
July 30	762	This city is founded on the Tigris River	Baghdad	61%
July 1	1867	This country is founded as a confederation of three British colonies	Canada	61%
July 6	1483	This "hunchbacked" king of England is crowned	Richard III	58%
July 31	1970	Disappointing sailors, the British Navy discontinues daily rations of this substance	Rum	56%
July 25	1965	This folk singer dismays fans by playing electric music at the Newport Folk Festival	Bob Dylan	49%
July 29	1968	This practice is banned by Pope Paul VI	Artificial Birth Control	25%