Statistics for This Month in History - January

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Day	On this day in...	Answer	% Correct
2	1960, this progressive, young president announced his presidential candidacy	John F. Kennedy	94%
3	1959, this becomes the 49th U.S. state	Alaska	89%
1	1818, Mary Shelley publishes this famous monster novel	Frankenstein	89%
23	1973, this president announces a peace accord with Vietnam	Richard Nixon	80%
20	1841, this Chinese island is occupied by the British	Hong Kong	77%
8	1790, this president delivered the first ever State of the Union address	George Washington	76%
30	1933, he is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany	Adolf Hitler	75%
13	1960, these notorious Russian labor camps are abolished	Gulag	70%
14	1539, Spain annexes this Caribbean island	Cuba	63%
19	1809, the author of "The Raven" is born	Edgar Allen Poe	61%
7	1927, this comedy basketball team plays their first game	Globetrotters	61%
25	1533, Henry VIII marries his second wife secretly	Anne Boleyn	57%
17	1706, famous American inventor and politican from Pennsylvania is born	Benjamin Franklin	56%
28	1956, this rocker makes his first television appearance	Elvis Presley	56%
22	1957, Israel withdraws from this peninsula	Sinai	51%
16	1605, this Spaniard publishes the first Don Quixote novel	Miguel de Cervantes	43%
27	1944, a 900-day siege of this city comes to an end	Leningrad	42%
18	2002, the civil war in the African country, whose capital is Freetown, ends	Sierra Leone	41%
5	1957, this revolutionary baseball player announces his retirement	Jackie Robinson	39%
12	1964, rebels on this Tanzanian island begin a revolt	Zanzibar	37%
11	1693, this famous Sicilian volcano erupts	Mt. Etna	35%
6	1907, the first Montessori school opens in this city	Rome	35%
29	1886, the first gasoline-powered automobile is patented by this man	Karl Benz	32%
10	1776, this famous pamphlet by Thomas Paine is published	Common Sense	28%
26	1942, first American forces in Europe arrive here	Northern Ireland	27%
15	1892, this innovator publishes the first rules for basketball	James Naismith	25%
4	1958, this famous explorer from New Zealand reaches the South Pole	Edmund Hillary	24%
21	1861, this high ranking C.S.A. official resigns his spot in the U.S. Senate	Jefferson Davis	16%
31	1801, this notable Federalist judge is sworn in as the Chief Justice	John Marshall	11%
24	1857, the first fully-fledged south Asian university is formed here	Kolkata	4%
9	1834, this famous ship arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia	HMS Beagle	3%