Statistics for This date in 1948

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Date	Hint	Answer	% Correct
January 30	This famous non-violent protester and leader is assassinated	Mahatma Gandhi	87%
March 10	First civilian to exceed the speed of this	Sound	80%
April 3	President Truman signs this 'plan' to help Europe recover from WWII	Marshall Plan	73%
January 4	This SE Asian country declares independence from the UK	Burma	53%
January 27	The first of these are sold; it records and plays back sounds	Tape Recorder	47%
June 24	USSR begins this blockade by stopping access by road, rail, and water to here	West Berlin	47%
February 24	Communist party takes control of this country	Czechoslovakia	40%
September 24	This major Japanese automobile manufacturer founded	Honda	40%
July 8	500th anniversary this Church (or Patriarchate) celebrated in Moscow	Russian Orthodox	40%
April 19	He is elected as president of Nationalist China	Chiang Kai-Shek	33%
July 29	King George VI opens the 14th of these in London	Olympic Games	33%
November 26	The first of this type of camera was sold in a department store	Polaroid	33%
December 24	The first house completely heated by this kind of power is occupied in the U.S.	Solar	33%
April 7	Created by the U.N., this organization is to help against sickness and injury	World Health Organization	33%
May 23	This famous NY Yankee hits for the cycle	Joe DiMaggio	20%
May 15	This war started, which was the second stage of the 1948 Palestine War	Arab-Israeli War	13%
October 6	Earthquake kills 100,000 in this country	USSR	7%