Statistics for Most Viewed Events on Wikipedia

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Year/s	Event	Views	% Correct
1914 - 1918	World War I	113 M	100%
1939 - 1945	World War II	136 M	100%
2020 -	COVID-19 pandemic	83 M	92%
2001	September 11 attacks	81 M	90%
1945 - 1989	Cold War	46 M	73%
1861 - 1865	American Civil War	67 M	68%
1955 - 1975	Vietnam War	77 M	66%
1950 - 1953	Korean War	42 M	59%
~ 13 billion BCE	Big Bang	28 M	53%
1929 - 1939	Great Depression	37 M	49%
1912	Titanic	76 M	47%
1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor	44 M	44%
2022 -	2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	43 M *	42%
1918 - 1920	Spanish flu	28 M	42%
1789 - 1799	French Revolution	37 M	41%
1945	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	51 M	37%
1775 - 1783	American Revolutionary War	31 M	36%
1346 - 1353	Black Death	46 M	36%
2010	2010 FIFA World Cup	32 M	31%
2014	2014 FIFA World Cup	40 M	31%
2018	2018 FIFA World Cup	59 M	31%
1944	Normandy landings	29 M	31%
1986	Chernobyl disaster	80 M	29%
2012	2012 Summer Olympics	30 M	25%
2016	2016 Summer Olympics	33 M	25%
2020	2020 Summer Olympics	35 M	25%
2020	UEFA Euro 2020	30 M	22%
2016	2016 United States presidential election	30 M	15%
2020	2020 United States presidential election	41 M	15%
2011 -	Syrian civil war	29 M	15%
1941 - 1945	The Holocaust	45 M	15%
2005	Hurricane Katrina	33 M	14%
~ 1760 - 1840	Industrial Revolution	33 M	10%
1999	Columbine High School massacre	39 M	5%