Statistics for This Day in U.S. History - January

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Jan 6	2021	Angered Americans protest at the Capitol (and some storm it) in demand that this vice president overturn the election of Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump due to alleged election fraud	Mike Pence	88%
Jan 8	1973	The trial for this infamous scandal accusing seven men of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters begins	Watergate	88%
Jan 16	1919	Prohibition is ratified to ban the production, importation, transportation, and sale of these	Alcoholic beverages	75%
Jan 3	1961	The United States severs diplomatic relations with this country	Cuba	75%
Jan 1	1863	President Lincoln signs this proclamation that granted freedom to slaves in the southern states	Emancipation Proclamation	75%
Jan 4	2007	Congress elects this democrat from California as the first female Speaker of the House	Nancy Pelosi	75%
Jan 31	1865	The 13th Amendment is passed, abolishing this practice	Slavery	75%
Jan 21	1977	President Carter pardons almost all draft evaders of this war	Vietnam War	75%
Jan 2	1974	President Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Conservation Act into effect in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo, lowering the speed limit to this (mph)	55 mph	63%
Jan 24	1848	This historical frenzy begins in California	California Gold Rush	63%
Jan 20	1937	This president becomes the first to be sworn into office on January 20	Franklin D. Roosevelt	63%
Jan 11	1949	Snow falls for the first (recorded) time in this major city	Los Angeles	63%
Jan 10	1870	Standard Oil is incorporated by this oil tycoon	John D. Rockefeller	50%
Jan 19	1920	The Senate votes against joining this worldwide intergovernmental organization	League of Nations	50%
Jan 13	1847	The Treaty of Cahuenga ends this war in California	Mexican-American War	50%
Jan 9	1861	This state becomes the second one to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the Civil War	Mississippi	50%
Jan 15	1919	A massive tank of this bursts in Boston, causing a wave of it to rush through the streets, killing 21 and injuring 150	Molasses	50%
Jan 22	1973	The Supreme Court legalizes abortion in this historical case	Roe v. Wade	50%
Jan 30	1835	In the first assassination attempt of a U.S. President, Richard Lawrence fails to kill this president	Andrew Jackson	38%
Jan 25	1971	This cult leader and his followers are convicted of murder	Charles Manson	38%
Jan 7	1980	President Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out this corporation	Chrysler	38%
Jan 17	1998	Matt Drudge breaks the news of this scandal on his website, The Drudge Report	Lewinsky scandal	38%
Jan 14	1784	Congress ratifies this treaty with Great Britain, making Ratification Day	Treaty of Paris	38%
Jan 18	1993	This federal holiday is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	25%
Jan 23	1965	The 24th Amendment is ratified, banning this that was used by many southern states	Poll tax	25%
Jan 12	1971	The Harrisburg Seven are indicted on charges of conspiring to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. and plotting to kidnap this National Security Advisor	Henry Kissinger	13%
Jan 29	1861	This state is admitted as the 34th state	Kansas	13%
Jan 26	1837	This state is admitted as the 26th state	Michigan	13%
Jan 27	1967	Along with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, the United States signs this treaty, banning the deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space and limiting the use of the Moon to peaceful purposes	Outer Space Treaty	13%
Jan 5	1781	This city is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold during the American Revolutionary War	Richmond	13%
Jan 28	1915	This service branch is founded upon an act of Congress	Coast Guard	0%

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