Statistics for Non-US, Non-UK Events by Year, 1950-1969

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This quiz has been taken 65 times
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The average score is 16 of 20

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1960	This city is founded to serve as Brazil's capital	Brasília	100%
1965	Language in which Catholic masses were usually held until the end of the Second Vatican Council	Latin	100%
1964	Zanzibar and Tanganyika merge into this state	Tanzania	98%
1959	He replaces Fulgencio Batista as the leader of Cuba	Fidel Castro	95%
1967	Christiaan Barnard conducts the first successful transplantation of this organ	Heart	95%
1961	East German leader Ulbricht claims that "nobody intends to erect" this kind of construction	Wall	91%
1968	Following student protests and street battles, this president flees France	Charles de Gaulle	89%
1966	Sukarno transfers his executive powers to Suharto, in this country	Indonesia	87%
1969	Yasser Arafat becomes chairman of this Palestine organization	PLO	84%
1962	This French colony gains independence after a bloody war	Algeria	82%
1955	This Argentine leader is exiled	Juan Perón	82%
1957	The European Economic Community, a precursor of this organization, is established	European Union	78%
1956	An attempted revolution in this country is crushed by Soviet intervention	Hungary	76%
1950	This secret police is founded in East Germany	Stasi	75%
1952	Albert Schweitzer receives this prize for his humanitarian work in Africa	Nobel Peace	71%
1953	Prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in this country	Persia	71%
1951	This initiative, officially called the "European Recovery Program", expires	Marshall Plan	65%
1958	This Gaul warrior makes his comic book debut	Astérix	64%
1963	Report on Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's trial: "The Banality of ___"	Evil	58%
1954	This Japanese movie, later remade as "The Magnificent Seven", is released	The Seven Samurai	51%