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1814 – During the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes what ?	"The Star-Spangled Banner"	86%
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches in diameter being driven through which internal part of his body ?	Brain	71%
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use what ?	Disk storage	71%
1968 – Cold War: Which country leaves the Warsaw Pact ?	Albania	57%
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in which way ?	Automobile accident	57%
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian, the highest peak of which mountain ?	Mount Kenya	57%
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa is held. It is led by who ?	Desmond Tutu	43%
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to which city to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism ?	Geneva	43%
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, which city becomes the country's temporary capital ?	New York	43%
1962 – An appeals court orders which university to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university ?	University of Mississippi	43%
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the Parliament of which country ?	New Zealand	29%
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 in which European city ?	Berlin	14%
1645 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh near which Scottish town ?	Selkirk	14%
2018 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions in which US state ?	Massachusetts	0%
1923 – Following a military coup, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship in which country ?	Spain	0%

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