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1951 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of commissioner for which sport ? | Baseball | 100%
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298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into which city ? | Carthage | 100%
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1804 – In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from which country to the United States ? | France | 100%
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1982 - The United States places an embargo on which country's petroleum imports due to their support of terrorist groups ? | Libya | 100%
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1876 - First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says what to his assistant Thomas Watson ? | "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" | 100%
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1526 - Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, marries Princess Isabella of Portugal, his 1st cousin, in which city ? | Seville | 100%
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2023 - Which bank collapses after a run on it's deposits ? | Silicon Valley Bank | 100%
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1987 - Which country announces a formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer ? | Vatican City | 100%
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1801 - First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately how many people ? | 10 million | 50%
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1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers which island group ? | Galapagos Islands | 50%
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1939 - Seventeen villages in the Hyderabad area of India are damaged by what ? | Hailstones | 50%
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1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to do what ? | Lift a Boat over Obstructions | 50%
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1988 - An avalanche at the Swiss ski resort of Klosters almost kills which member of the British Royal Family ? | Prince Charles | 50%
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1762 - French Huguenot, Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after suffering what ? | Torture by Authorities | 50%
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1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of which planet ? | Uranus | 50%
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1997 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on which television network ? | Warner Bros. Television | 50%
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