Statistics for This Day in History - September

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DateYearClueAnswer% Correct
Sep 11939Germany invades this country, considered the beginning of WWIIPoland
98%
Sep 112001Terrorists destroy the World Trade Center in this cityNew York City
93%
Sep 21945Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of this countryVietnam
93%
Sep 51666This city's "Great Fire" comes to end. The official death toll is only 6.London
86%
Sep 191893New Zealand becomes the first country to grant these
people the right to vote
Women
82%
Sep 221980Iraq invades this country, launching the deadliest war of the 1980sIran
81%
Sep 151950U.S. forces land at Inchon, considered a turning point of this warKorean War
78%
Sep 131996This rapper is killed in Las VegasTupac Shakur
78%
Sep 91543This woman is crowned "Queen of Scots"Mary Stuart
76%
Sep 211937This J.R.R. Tolkien book is publishedThe Hobbit
74%
Sep 281928Alexander Fleming discovers this miracle drugPenicillin
73%
Sep 121953Jacqueline Bouvier marries this politicianJohn F. Kennedy
71%
Sep 81974This politician is pardoned by Gerald FordRichard Nixon
71%
Sep 42006This television star is killed by a stingraySteve Irwin
71%
Sep 182014This "country" votes not to become independentScotland
68%
Sep 271996This militant Islamist faction captures KabulTaliban
68%
Sep 161620This Pilgrim ship begins its voyage to AmericaThe Mayflower
68%
Sep 231973Juan Perón returns to power in this countryArgentina
66%
Sep 3301This tiny country is founded on Monte Titano, making it the oldest
republic on Earth (at least according to legend)
San Marino
65%
Sep 101960Abebe Bikila sets a new world record at this event - without shoesMarathon
64%
Sep 71986Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop in this countrySouth Africa
63%
Sep 241957Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, opens in this cityBarcelona
56%
Sep 141982This actress, the Princess of Monaco, dies in a car accidentGrace Kelly
55%
Sep 301955This young movie star dies in a car crashJames Dean
54%
Sep 171916This fighter ace records the first of his 80 aerial victoriesManfred von
Richthofen
53%
Sep 201187Saladin besieges this city, taking it about two weeks laterJerusalem
51%
Sep 251513Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses this isthmus, becoming the first
European to see the Pacific coast of the Americas
Isthmus of Panama
49%
Sep 261580This English sea captain finishes his circumnavigation of the globeFrancis Drake
46%
Sep 61901This President is shot by anarchist Leon CzolgoszWilliam McKinley
39%
Sep 291938At a conference in this city, European leaders agree to let Germany
annex part of Czechoslovakia
Munich
37%

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