Statistics for Historical Events by State

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Event	Year	State	% Correct
Battle of the Alamo.	1836	Texas	100%
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.	1941	Hawaii	97%
Launch of the Apollo 11 Space Mission.	1969	Florida	94%
Salem Witch Trails	1692-1693	Massachusetts	90%
Martin Luther King organizes a city wide boycott in this states capital.	1955-1956	Alabama	81%
First state to ratify the Constitution.	1787	Delaware	81%
Aristedes beomes the first winner of this states "Derby".	1875	Kentucky	81%
The Woodstock Music Festival takes place over three days.	1969	New York	81%
Mt. McKinley reverts back to it's indigenous name, Denali.	2015	Alaska	77%
Fulton County goes dry, forcing chemist John Pemberton to change his patented Wine Coca into a softdrink called Coca Cola.	1885	Georgia	77%
The United States Constitution is drafted.	1776	Pennsylvania	77%
Sam Phillips of Sun Records signs Elvis Presley to his first record deal	1954	Tennessee	77%
First Starbucks Coffee House opens in the Pike Street Fish Market.	1971	Washington	77%
The Flamingo Hotel and Casino is opened by gangster Bugsy Seagal.	1946	Nevada	74%
The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk.	1903	North Carolina	74%
Henry Ford opens up the worlds first automobile plant to utilize and assembly line.	1913	Michigan	71%
First atomic bomb is detonated.	1945	New Mexico	71%
Four student protesters are shot and killed at Kent State University.	1970	Ohio	71%
Endpoint of Lewis and Clark's expedition.	1805-1806	Oregon	71%
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World, is established.	1607	Virginia	71%
The Hindenburg Dissaster.	1937	New Jersey	68%
Mass shooting at Columbine High School.	1999	Colorado	65%
Louis Armstrong takes over as the leader of Joe "King" Oliver's band.	1919	Louisiana	65%
Wounded Knee Masacre	1890	South Dakota	65%
Attack on Fort Sumpter and the begining of the U.S. Civil War.	1861	South Carolina	61%
The endpoint for the "Trail of Tears."	1830-1850	Oklahoma	58%
Sam Walton opens his first Wal*Mart.	1962	Arkansas	55%
Sun Valley becomes the countries first destination ski resort in 1936.	1936	Idaho	55%
Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck start a mail order retail company.	1886	Illinois	55%
David Letterman begins his broadcasting career on a college radio station at Ball State University.	1965-1969	Indiana	55%
Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen open their first ice cream parlor.	1979	Vermont	52%
The Camp David Accords are signed.	1978	Maryland	48%
On May 29, 1790, it became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.	1790	Rhode Island	48%
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads are joined at Promontory Summitto form the Transcontinental railroad.	1869	Utah	48%
Women are granted the right to vote fifty-one years before the passage of the nineteenth amendment.	1869	Wyoming	48%
Lawman Wyatt Earp helps saloon keeper Luke Short take on a corrupt mayor before Short decides to "get out of Dodge."	1883	Kansas	45%
Ted Kacynzky, AKA: The Unabomber, is finally apprehended.	1996	Montana	45%
This colony declares independence from England six months prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independance.	1776	New Hampshire	45%
The Peace Garden, represent the friendship between the United States and Canada, is dedicated on this states international border.	1932	North Dakota	45%
The Mall of America, the largest indoor shopping complex in North America, opens.	1992	Minnesotta	42%
The ice cream cone is invented at the 1904 World's Fair.	1904	Missouri	42%
Traveling salesman Ray Kroc visits a resteraunt called McDonald's and offers to franchise it.	1955	California	39%
Grant Wood paints his iconic canvas "American Gothic".	1930	Iowa	39%
Launch of the first ship built by English colonist in North America.	1609	Maine	39%
The cable network ESPN sings on.	1979	Connecticut	35%
William S. Harley and Arthur Davison design their first motorcycle.	1903	Wisconsin	35%
A seventeen-year-old Steven Spielberg screens his 8mm feature film "Firelight" at a local theater. Makes a $100 profit.	1964	Arizona	32%
"Buffalo Bill" Cody puts on his firist Wild West Show.	1883	Nebraska	29%
The first human heart transplant is successfully performed.	1967	Mississippi	23%
July 1, 1921 - The first state sales tax is put into effect.	1921	West Virginia	23%