Statistics for Important dates in U.S. History

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Date	What Happened	% Correct
April 12, 1861	Civil War begins	93%
July 4, 1776	Declaration of Independence	86%
December 7, 1941	Pearl Harbor attacked	82%
September 11, 2001	9/11 terrorist attacks	75%
April 14, 1865	President Abraham Lincoln assassinated	71%
November 11, 1918	World War 1 ends	68%
October 28-29, 1929	Great Depression begins	64%
November 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy assassinated	64%
August 6, 1945	Hiroshima	61%
July 1-3, 1863	Battle of Gettysburg	57%
June 6, 1944	D-Day	57%
September 17, 1787	Constitutiton Signed	50%
September 3, 1783	Revolutionary War Ends / Treaty of Paris	46%
July 21, 1969	Man walks on moon	43%
April 19, 1775	Revolutionary War Begins	43%
September 6, 1901	President William Mckinley Assassinated	39%
October 19, 1987	Stock Market Crash	36%
August 9, 1974	President Nixon resigns	29%
December 6, 1865	13th Amendment (Slavery Ends)	25%
July 2, 1881	President James Garfield Assassinated	25%
July 2, 1964	Civil Rights Act	21%
August 18, 1920	19th Amendment (Women get right to vote)	18%
January 28, 1986	Challenger explodes	18%
January 16, 1919	Prohibition (of alcohol) Begins (18th Amendment)	18%
February 9, 1964	Beatles on TV	14%
April 20, 1999	Columbine shooting	11%
October 8-10, 1871	Great Chicago Fire	11%
May 28, 1830	Indian Removal Act / Trail of Tears	11%
December 8, 1980	John Lennon murdered	11%
August 29, 2005	Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans	7%
February 19, 1942	Japanese Internment	7%
April 19, 1994	Oklahoma City bombing	7%
December 1, 1955	Rosa Parks arrested	4%