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2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold in which city ? | Fallujah | 100%
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1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and and which other city ? | Honolulu | 100%
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1957 – The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over which island in the Pacific ? | Christmas Island | 75%
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1889 – Which state is admitted as the 41st U.S. state ? | Montana | 75%
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1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to which island ? | Murano | 75%
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1602 – The Bodleian Library at which University is opened to the public ? | Oxford | 75%
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1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours, near which European city ? | Prague | 75%
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1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in which city ? | Munich | 50%
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1973 – Which body part of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million ? | Right Ear | 50%
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1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray whilst experimenting with what ? | Electricity | 25%
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1987 – A Provisional IRA bomb explodes during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces in which Northern Irish town ? | Enniskillen | 25%
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2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of which country ? | Philippines | 25%
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1965 – The Murder Act 1965 is passed, abolishing the death penalty in the UK, except in certain cases. In what year was the death penalty completely abolished ? | 1998 | 0%
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1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He was a co-founder of which band ? | Electric Light Orchestra | 0%
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The USA celebrates which drink on this day ? | National Harvey Wallbanger Day | 0%
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