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1.326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. On the same day in which year is the new St Peter's Basilica is consecrated ?
1527
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1626
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1701
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1798
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2.1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known by what name ?
Puerto Rico
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St. Lucia
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Bermuda
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Cuba
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3.1760 – The rebuilt debtors' prison receives it's first prisoners at the Castellania in which city ?
Naples
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Limassol
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Palermo
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Valletta
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4.1865 – Which Mark Twain short story is published in the New York Saturday Press ?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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A Dog's Tale
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
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5.1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over what ?
Trans - American Highway
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The Darian Gap
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Panama Canal Zone
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Mineral deposits in Panama
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6.1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of which country ?
Malta
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Greece
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Yugoslavia
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Libya
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7.1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to which country ?
South Vietnam
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Korea
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Cambodia
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Nicaragua
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8.1963 – The first of which type of telephone goes into service ?
Direct Dial
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Radio mobile
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Push Button
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Card payment
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9.1971 – Oman declares its independence from which country ?
Saudi Arabia
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France
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Spain
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United Kingdom
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10.1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at one of the city's busiest underground stations, but which one ?
Oxford Circus
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King's Cross St Pancras
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Victoria
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Liverpool Street
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11.1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing what punishment for drug traffickers ?
Death Penalty
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Whole Life without parole
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Maximum 50 years imprisonment
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Minimum 25 years imprisonment
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12.1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after how many days ?
2,045 days
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1,294 days
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1,763 days
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971 days
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13.1991 – After an 87-day siege, which Croatian city capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army ?
Zadar
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Vukovar
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Dubrovnik
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Split
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14.2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in which country ?
Iran
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Libya
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Syria
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Iraq
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15.2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to which planet ?