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1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. It was the Morse Code for which letter ? | S (...) | 75%
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1915 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor, and producer is born in which city in the New York Metropolitan area ? | Hoboken | 50%
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2012 – Which country successfully launches its first satellite, "Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2" ? | North Korea | 50%
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1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of which state becomes the second black U.S. congressman ? | South Carolina | 50%
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1988 – A rail crash kills thirty-five after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom near which station ? | Clapham Junction | 38%
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2006 – Peter Boyle, American actor dies on this day. He is known for playing the character of Frank Barone in which TV sitcom ? | Everybody Loves Raymond | 38%
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1935 – The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by which Nazi Holocaust perpetrator ? | Heinrich Himmler | 38%
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884 – King Carloman II, King of West Francia, dies after an accident whilst doing what activity ? | Hunting | 38%
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1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to which Republic ? | Republic of Venice | 38%
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1866 – Oaks Colliery explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers near to which town ? | Barnsley, West Yorkshire | 25%
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1939 – HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of which part of the United Kingdom with the loss of 124 men ? | Mull of Kintyre | 25%
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2019 – Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, catches fire while docked in which port ? | Murmansk | 25%
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1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on which river ? | Yazoo River | 25%
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1979 – The Tumaco earthquake shakes which two countries killing between 300–600, and generating a large tsunami ? | Colombia and Ecuador | 13%
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The World Health Organisation designates this day as what ? | Universal Health Coverage Day | 0%
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