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1.633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ?
North Wales
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East Anglia
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South Yorkshire
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Scottish Borders
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2.1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ?
Bahamas
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Cuba
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Hispaniola
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Antigua
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3.1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ?
Synagogue
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Insane Asylum
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Mosque
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Maternity Hospital
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4.1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ?
Swim across the English channel
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Become a French priest
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Be executed by guillotine
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Parachute from a balloon
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5.1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ?
Executive Mansion
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President's Palace
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Presidential Residence
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Leadership Building
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6.1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ?
Seamstress
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Nurse
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Teacher
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Brothel Madame
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7.1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ?
Birmingham, UK
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Lyon, France
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Boston, USA
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Osaka, Japan
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8.1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ?
Athens
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Sofia
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Prague
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Budapest
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9.1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ?
Throws his papers in the air
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Storms out of the room
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Constantly interrupts
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Pounds his shoe on a desk
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10.1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ?
Cameroon
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Equatorial Guinea
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Togo
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Sao Tome and Principe
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11.1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ?
Ford
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Coca-Cola
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Lockheed
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McDonalds
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12.1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ?
Brighton
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Plymouth
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Liverpool
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Oxford
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13.1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ?
Mercury
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Venus
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Mars
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Earth
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14.2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ?
United Kingdom
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Canada
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Mexico
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Israel
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15.2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ?