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2013 – Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in which European capital city ? | Riga | 67%
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2004 – The second round of the presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity in which country ? | Ukraine | 67%
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1905 – Which scientist's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, is published in the journal Annalen der Physik ? | Albert Einstein | 50%
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1920 – Irish War of Independence: 31 people are killed in which city on a day that became known as "Bloody Sunday" ? | Dublin | 50%
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1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of which state takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator ? | Georgia | 50%
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1910 – Sailors on board Brazil's warships violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata otherwise known as what ? | Revolt of the Lash | 50%
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1995 – The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in which country ? | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 33%
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2017 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after how many years in office ? | Thirty Seven | 33%
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1945 – The United Auto Workers strike at 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a pay raise of what percentage ? | 30% | 17%
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2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of which country's external debt ? | Iraq | 17%
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1961 – The "La Ronde" restaurant opens, it is the first revolving restaurant in the United States. But in which city ? | Honolulu | 0%
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1789 – Which state ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state ? | North Carolina | 0%
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1970 – Vietnam War: A joint USAF and Army team raids the Sơn Tây POW camp in an attempt to free Americans thought to be held there. It was known as what operation ? | Operation Ivory Coast | 0%
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1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of what ? | Speed of Light | 0%
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1918 – The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to do what in the UK ? | Stand for Parliament | 0%
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