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332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of what to the citizens in Constantinople ? | Food | 100%
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1980 – Which volcano erupts killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage ? | Mount St. Helens, USA | 100%
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2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making which country secular ? | Nepal | 75%
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1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to achieve what feat ? | Break the Sound Barrier | 50%
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1990 – A modified train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph) in which country ? | France | 50%
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1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making what activity illegal ? | Slavery | 50%
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1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now where ? | Venezuela | 50%
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1974 – India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so, in a project named what ? | Smiling Buddha | 25%
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1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. In which two modern day countries was Antioch ? | Turkey and Syria | 25%
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Today is recognised as what day internationally ? | World AIDS Vaccine Day | 25%
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2009 – The LTTE (Tamil Tigers) are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending how many years of fighting between the two sides ? | 26 | 0%
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1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in which Middle Eastern city ? | Damascus, Syria | 0%
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1896 – A mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people on Khodynka Field in which city ? | Moscow | 0%
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1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Canada, after leaving the United States. By what name is Parrtown known today ? | Saint John, New Brunswick | 0%
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1949 – Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist and songwriter, is born. With which "Prog Rock" band is he most known ? | Yes | 0%
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