Statistics for Famous Dates in (Western) History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
November 11, 1918	Signing of WWI armistice	81%
July 20, 1969	Moon landing	77%
October 14, 1066	Battle of Hastings	74%
June 18, 1815	Battle of Waterloo	74%
June 6, 1944	Invasion of Normandy	68%
August 3, 1492	Columbus sets sail across the Atlantic	64%
May 15, 44 (BCE)	Ides of March	64%
July 14, 1789	Storming of the Bastille	64%
June 15, 1215	Magna Carta signed	62%
August 6, 1945	Bombing of Hiroshima	55%
December 25, 800	Charlemagne crowned Emperor	49%
June 10, 323 (BCE)	Death of Alexander the Great	43%
October 25, 1415	Battle of Agincourt	34%
October 21, 1805	Battle of Trafalgar	32%
May 29, 1453	Sack of Constantinople	32%
December 17, 1903	Wright Brothers' first flight	30%
October 31, 1517	Protestant reformation begins	26%
August 24, 410	Sack of Rome	26%
August 11, 480 (BCE)	Battle of Thermopylae	23%
May 30, 1431	Death of Joan of Arc	15%
January 1, 1863	Emancipation Proclamation	15%
January 7, 1610	Galileo discovers moons of Jupiter	11%
October 16, 1793	Marie Antoinette is executed	11%
July 5, 1687	Newton published Principia Mathematica	11%
December 27, 1831	Darwin sets sail on the Beagle	4%