Statistics for This Day in History - October

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Oct 3	1990	This country is reunified	Germany	94%
Oct 12	1810	This Munich festival is held for the first time	Oktoberfest	89%
Oct 30	1922	This fascist becomes Prime Minister of Italy	Benito Mussolini	87%
Oct 16	1793	This French queen is guillotined	Marie Antoinette	87%
Oct 4	1957	This satellite becomes the first human-built object to orbit Earth	Sputnik 1	86%
Oct 28	1962	Ending a crisis, the USSR agrees to remove its missiles from this country	Cuba	85%
Oct 5	2011	This technology pioneer dies of pancreatic cancer	Steve Jobs	84%
Oct 1	331 BC	This conqueror defeats the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela	Alexander the Great	80%
Oct 7	1962	Dr. No, the first movie to feature this character, is released	James Bond	80%
Oct 19	1812	Napoleon retreats from this city. Less than 10% of his troops will survive the long march back to France.	Moscow	78%
Oct 13	54	This musical enthusiast becomes emperor of Rome	Nero	78%
Oct 18	1898	This island becomes a U.S. territory	Puerto Rico	76%
Oct 31	2011	The human population of Earth reaches this number (according to the U.N.)	7 billion	75%
Oct 9	768	This ruler is crowned King of the Franks	Charlemagne	75%
Oct 14	1066	William the Conqueror wins this pivotal battle	Battle of Hastings	73%
Oct 21	1805	This one-armed admiral defeats the French at the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	70%
Oct 24	1901	Annie Taylor becomes the first person to go over these in a barrel	Niagara Falls	70%
Oct 27	1682	This American city is founded by William Penn	Philadelphia	70%
Oct 22	1836	Sam Houston becomes the first president of this short-lived country	Texas	70%
Oct 6	1973	Syria and Egypt invade Israel on this Jewish holiday	Yom Kippur	70%
Oct 8	1871	Mrs. O'Leary's cow allegedly starts a fire in this city	Chicago	62%
Oct 25	1415	This English king defeats the French at Agincourt	Henry V	62%
Oct 23	4004 BC	The world is created, according to James Ussher's calculations based on this book	The Bible	62%
Oct 2	1535	Jacques Cartier arrives at the present-day site of this city on the St. Lawrence river	Montreal	59%
Oct 20	1944	General Douglas MacArthur returns to this country after being forced to flee two years earlier	Philippines	58%
Oct 15	1917	Exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed for this crime	Espionage	56%
Oct 10	1911	The start of the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew this imperial dynasty, China's last	Qing	47%
Oct 29	1618	This English adventurer, who tried to colonize Virginia, is beheaded	Walter Raleigh	42%
Oct 17	1604	This explosion is first observed from Earth. For weeks, it would appear brighter than any star in the night sky.	Kepler's {Supernova}	40%
Oct 11	1962	This Catholic council convenes. It would introduce many changes, such as allowing masses to be held in languages besides Latin.	Second {Vatican} Council	35%
Oct 26	1881	The "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" occurs in this Arizona frontier town	Tombstone	34%