Date
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Hint
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Answer
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295
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8th recorded perihelion passage of what comet
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Hailey Comet
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850
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Who becomes bishop of Cologne
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Guntherus
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1139
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What opens in Rome
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2nd Lateran Council
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1505
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What does Philibert of Luxembourg do
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Expels Jews from Orange Burgandy
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1551
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Who becomes Earl Marshal of England
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John Dudley
|
1611
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What Shakespeare tragedy is performed
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Macbeth
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1650
|
Dutch East India Company (VOC) does what
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Set new guidelines
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1653
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What does Oliver Cromwell do
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Route English parliament to house
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1689
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What does the deposed king, James II do
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Lay siege to Derry
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1702
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What comet approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
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Comet C/1702 H
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1715
|
What play premieres in London
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The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
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1736
|
What does French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis start an expedition to do
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Measure the latitude and shape of the earth
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1759
|
Who is buried in Westminster Abbey
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George Frideric Handel
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1770
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Where does Captain James Cook arrive
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New South Wales
|
1777
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What does New York do
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Adopt a new constitution
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1785
|
Who becomes British Poet Laureate
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Thomas Warton
|
1809
|
What Battle occurs
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Battle of Abensberg
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1836
|
What territory is created
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Wisconsin Territory
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1862
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The first what test is completed by Louis Pasteur
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Pasteurization
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1879
|
First what is used in a journey from London & Cyprus
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Mobile home
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1887
|
Georges Bouton wins the 1st what
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Motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle
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1898
|
What US office in South Dakota opens
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US Assay Office
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1902
|
What do Marie and Pierre Curie do
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Isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride
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1912
|
What stadium officially opens
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Fenway Park
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1920
|
The Balfour Declaration does what
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Make Palestine a British Mandate
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1926
|
The 1st what is transmitted across the Atlantic
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Check sent by revenue
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1931
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The British House of Commons agrees on what
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Sports play on Sunday
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1940
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The 1st what is demonstrated in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Electron microscope
|
1947
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Who becomes King of Denmark
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Frederik IX
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1951
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What Film Festival occurs
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4th Cannes Film Festival
|
1958
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Morocco demands what
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Departure of Spanish troops
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1962
|
What civilian pilot takes X-15 to 63,250 m
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Neil Armstrong
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1967
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What US spacecraft lands on the Moon
|
Surveyor 3
|
1968
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Who becomes the Canadian Prime Minister
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Pierre Trudeau
|
1974
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Paul McCartney & Wings releases what single
|
Band on the Run
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1979
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Jimmy Carter is attacked by what
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Swamp Rabbit
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1983
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Ronald Regan does what
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Sign a $165 billion bail out for Social Security
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1993
|
Uranus passes what planet
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Neptune
|
1998
|
What terrorist group was dissolved
|
Red Army Faction
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2012
|
A plane crash occurs near what city
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Islamabad
|
2013
|
Who becomes President of Italy
|
Giorgio Napolitano
|
2018
|
Commonwealth countries decide who will be the next head of the organization
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Prince Charles
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2020
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The price of US what turns negative for first time in history
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Oil
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