Statistics for This Month in History - February

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This quiz has been taken 77 times
The average score is 13 of 28

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Day	On this day in...	Answer	% Correct
7	1962, U.S.A. ends trade with this island country	Cuba	85%
16	1933, this period of sobriety comes to a close in America	Prohibition	82%
19	1985, William Schroeder becomes the first to recieve an artificial of this organ and leave hospital	Heart	76%
18	1885, this author publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	74%
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}	74%
14	1779, this British explorer famous for exploring Newfoundland and the Pacific is killed in Hawaii	James Cook	73%
13	1633, this famous astronomer arrives in Rome for his trial	Galileo Galilei	68%
26	1815, Napoleon escapes from this island	Elba	63%
21	1848, Engels and Marx publish this	The Communist Manifesto	63%
17	2008, this country officially separates from Serbia	Kosovo	56%
12	1963, construction begins on the Gateway Arch in this city	St. Louis	53%
27	1933, this German parliament building burns, solidifying Nazi power	Reichstag	50%
23	1945, a famous photograph of Americans raising a flag on this island is taken	Iwo Jima	48%
25	1991, this organization, created to oppose NATO, disbands	Warsaw Pact	47%
4	1945, the Yalta Conference begins on this peninsula	Crimea	44%
24	1868, he becomes the first president to be impeached	Andrew Johnson	42%
1	1865, President Lincoln signs into law this amendment banning involuntary servitude	13th	39%
22	1819, the U.S. recieves this from Spain	Florida	39%
15	1992, this Milwaukee serial killer is sentenced to life in prison	Jeffrey Dahmer	39%
11	2011, this president of Egypt is ousted by revolution	Hosni Mubarak	35%
5	1958, an H-Bomb is lost off the coast of this Georgia city	Savannah	32%
9	1773, this future US president, who went on to serve the shortest term, is born	William Henry Harrison	31%
8	1915, this controversial film by D.W. Griffiths premieres	The Birth of a Nation	29%
28	1784, John Wesley charters this sect of the Christian church	Methodist	24%
20	1991, a memorial statue of Enver Hoxha is destroyed in this country	Albania	23%
10	1763, the French and Indian War ends and this province is ceded to Great Britain	Quebec	19%
6	1958, members of Manchester United and journalists are killed in plane crash here	Munich	18%
2	1848, this treaty ends the Mexican-American War	Guadalupe Hidalgo	8%