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1885 – After being published in the UK the previous year, which novel is published in the United States for the first time ? | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 100%
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1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed in Sofia by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire, by what means ? | Hanging | 100%
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1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to a town about 10 kilometres away, in which country ? | India | 100%
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1861 – Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of what ? | King of Italy | 100%
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2021 - Perseverance. an exploration vehicle, lands successfully on which celestial body? | Mars | 100%
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1968 - David Gilmour joins which rock group ? | Pink Floyd | 100%
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2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, the last surviving member of the Von Trapp Singers dies in Vermont. She was the inspiration for which musical film? | The Sound of Music | 100%
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1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason, is executed by drowning in a vat of wine, in which building ? | Tower of London | 100%
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1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington and which other London station ? | Victoria | 100%
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2013 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at which airport ? | Brussels | 50%
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2003 – Nearly 200 people die in a subway fire in which South Korean city ? | Daegu | 50%
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1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in which city ? | Los Angeles | 50%
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1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers which celestial body ? | Pluto | 50%
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1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-American singer-songwriter, wife of John Lennon is born in which Japanese city ? | Tokyo | 50%
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1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade which island ? | Trinidad | 50%
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1901 - Which British politician makes his maiden speech in the House of Commons ? | Winston Churchill | 50%
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