Historical Events and Figures #1

Given the description, name the historical event or figure related to it.

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Description	Answer
Russian poet who wrote Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak
Head of the South Afriacn civil rights movement (Not Mandela)	Desmond Tutu
American economist who advised many world leaders and won a Nobel Prize	Milton Friedman
Chilean female poet who won Nobel Prize for works like "Desolation"	Gabriela Mistral
Jewish refugee who was Secretary of State for Richard Nixon	Henry Kissinger
Ghanaian man who was the leader of the United Nations	Kofi Annan
Mexican poet who earned Nobel Prize for works like "Labyrinth of Solitude"	Octavio Paz
Italian poet who won Nobel Prize for works like "Poesie"	Salvatore Quasimodo
Norwegian female novelist who won Nobel Prize for works like "Kristin Lavransdatter"	Sigrid Undset
Peruvian author who won a Nobel Prize works like "The Time of the Hero"	Mario Vargas Llosa

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Chinese writer who critized China's communist government	Liu Xiaobo
Japanese physicist who discovered pions	Hideki Yukawa
Dutch physicist who studied how light was affected by electromagnetic fields	Pieter Zeeman
Leader and founder of the Mauryan Empire	Chandragupta Maurya
Series of battles fought between France and Britain in North America during the War of Spanish Succession	Queen Anne's War
Great Roman defeat by Germanic peoples	Battle of Teutoburg Forest
American female lawyer who helped co-found the National Women's Political Caucus	Bella Abzug
Female anarchist writer who helped develop the movement in North America	Emma Goldman
Former Cuban president who was overthrown by Fidel Castro	Fulgencio Batista
Huguenot leader who was a former admiral and advisor to Charles IX	Gaspard II de Coligny

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