Statistics for The First U.S. State to Do It

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The first state to ...	Year	State	% Correct
surpass 1 million in population	c. 1811	New York	91%
have a Chinatown	1848	California	84%
have an airplane flight	1903	North Carolina	83%
ratify the Constitution	1787	Delaware	82%
be settled by the English	1607	Virginia	81%
be settled by Europeans	1565	Florida	79%
have an institute of higher learning	1636	Massachusetts	76%
secede from the Union	1860	South Carolina	75%
have a Starbucks	1971	Washington	74%
have a nuclear weapons test	1945	New Mexico	73%
have jazz music	c. 1910	Louisiana	68%
have Elvis	1935	Mississippi	55%
win the Super Bowl	1967	Wisconsin	55%
celebrate Juneteenth	1866	Texas	54%
host the Olympic games	1904	Missouri	50%
have a major silver ore find (hint: Comstock Lode)	1859	Nevada	41%
allow women to vote	1869	Wyoming	38%
have an oil well	1859	Pennsylvania	36%
have a rock and roll concert	1952	Ohio	31%
have a nuclear reactor	1942	Illinois	30%