This Month in History - February

Answer these historical trivia clues from the month of February

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Day	On this day in...	Answer
1	1865, President Lincoln signs into law this amendment banning involuntary servitude	13th
2	1848, this treaty ends the Mexican-American War	Guadalupe Hidalgo
3	1959, named coined for the day Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and "The Big Bopper" die in a tragic plane crash	The Day the Music Died
4	1945, the Yalta Conference begins on this peninsula	Crimea
5	1958, an H-Bomb is lost off the coast of this Georgia city	Savannah
6	1958, members of Manchester United and journalists are killed in plane crash here	Munich
7	1962, U.S.A. ends trade with this island country	Cuba
8	1915, this controversial film by D.W. Griffiths premieres	The Birth of a Nation
9	1773, this future US president, who went on to serve the shortest term, is born	William Henry Harrison
10	1763, the French and Indian War ends and this province is ceded to Great Britain	Quebec
11	2011, this president of Egypt is ousted by revolution	Hosni Mubarak
12	1963, construction begins on the Gateway Arch in this city	St. Louis
13	1633, this famous astronomer arrives in Rome for his trial	Galileo Galilei
14	1779, this British explorer famous for exploring Newfoundland and the Pacific is killed in Hawaii	James Cook
15	1992, this Milwaukee serial killer is sentenced to life in prison	Jeffrey Dahmer
16	1933, this period of sobriety comes to a close in America	Prohibition
17	2008, this country officially separates from Serbia	Kosovo
18	1885, this author publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
19	1985, William Schroeder becomes the first to recieve an artificial of this organ and leave hospital	Heart
20	1991, a memorial statue of Enver Hoxha is destroyed in this country	Albania
21	1848, Engels and Marx publish this	The Communist Manifesto
22	1819, the U.S. recieves this from Spain	Florida
23	1945, a famous photograph of Americans raising a flag on this island is taken	Iwo Jima
24	1868, he becomes the first president to be impeached	Andrew Johnson
25	1991, this organization, created to oppose NATO, disbands	Warsaw Pact
26	1815, Napoleon escapes from this island	Elba
27	1933, this German parliament building burns, solidifying Nazi power	Reichstag
28	1784, John Wesley charters this sect of the Christian church	Methodist

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