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World history
world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rosa Parks arrested for not moving to the back of the bus | December 1, 1955 |
| Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter | December 4, 1973 |
| Prohibition ends | December 5, 1933 |
| John Lennon shot and killed in NYC | December 8, 1980 |
| South Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen | December 14, 1911 |
| U.S. Bill of Rights signed | December 15, 1791 |
| Ludwig Von Beethoven is born | December 17, 1770 |
| U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton is impeached | December 20, 1998 |
| Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium | December 21, 1898 |
| General Sherman takes Savannah | December 22, 1865 |
| Dutch Painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his own ear | December 23, 1888 |
| War of 1812 Peace Treaty signed | December 24, 1814 |
| World's first movie theater opens in Paris | December 28, 1895 |
| First successful human heart transplant performed | January 2, 1968 |
| Alaska becomes 49th U.S. state | January 3, 1959 |
| Sir Isaac Newton is born | Januay 4, 1642 |
| Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees | January 5, 1920 |
| French heroine Joan of Arc born | January 6, 1412 |
| First Mickey Mouse comic strip appears | January 13, 1930 |
| Benjamin Franklin is born | January 17, 1706 |
| Capt. James Cook finds Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands | January 18, 1778 |
| Edward Jenners smallpox vaccine introduced | January 21, 1799 |
| St. Petersburg, Russia renamed Leningrad | January 24, 1924 |
| Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call | January 25, 1915 |
| Dentist's electric drill patented | January 26, 1875 |
| Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee | January 27, 1967 |
| The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC radio | January 30, 1933 |
| Mary Queen of Scots beheaded | February 8, 1587 |
| Jesse James hold up his first bank in Liberty, MO | February 13, 1866 |
| Tutankhamen's burial chamber is opened | February 16, 1923 |
| Edison patents the gramophone | February 19, 1878 |
| U.S. Postal Service is created previously USPOD | February 20, 1792 |
| Mexico gains independence from Spain | February 24, 1821 |
| First NYC subway line opens | February 26, 1870 |
| Republican Party formally organized | February 28, 1854 |
| First U.S. census authorized | March 1, 1790 |
| Vietnam peace treaty signed in Paris | March 2, 1973 |
| Vietnam war begn | November 1 1955 |
| The Star Spangled Banner become the U.S. national athem | March 3, 1931 |
| First U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam | March 8, 1965 |
| First U.S. paper currency is issued | March 10, 1862 |
| Nuclear bomb accidentally dropped on North Carolina | March 11, 1953 |
| Slowest day ever for NY Stock Exchange | March 16, 1830 |
| NATO is formed | March 18, 1949 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, AL | March 21, 1965 |
| Niagra Falls runs dry due to drought | March 22, 1903 |
| Canada grants blacks the right to vote | March 24, 1837 |
| First successful blood transfusion | March 27, 1914 |
| Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic | March 30, 1932 |
| Velcro is first sold | April 2, 1978 |
| Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world | April 4. 1581 |
| Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain | April 8, 1513 |
| The safety pin is patented | April 10, 1849 |
| Pochahontas marries John Rolfe | April 14, 1614 |
| Leonardo da Vinci is born | April 15, 1452 |
| Annie Oakley shoot a record 100 clay targets in a row | April 16, 1922 |
| The Great San Francisco Earthquake | April 19, 1906 |
| Grace Kelley marries Prince Ranier III of Monaco | April 19, 1956 |
| Adolf Hitler was born | April 20, 1889 |
| WIlliam Shakespeare was born | April 23, 1564 |
| The Chernobyl nuclear disaster | April 26, 1986 |
| Fletcher Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty | April 28, 1789 |
| The zipper is patented | April 29, 1913 |
| Alan Shepard is first American in space | May 5, 1961 |
| Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president | May 10, 1994 |
| The rubber band was patented | May 17, 1845 |
| Napoleon became Emperor of France | May 18, 1804 |
| Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross | May 21, 1881 |
| British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns | May 23, 1945 |
| Samuel Morse send the first telegraph message | May 24,1884 |
| Nicholas II crowned Czar of Russia | May 26, 1896 |
| Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown | June 12, 1939 |
| Wellington defeats Napolean at Waterloo | June 18, 1815 |
| 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18 | June 22, 1970 |
| Gone With the Wind is published | June 30, 1936 |
| U.S. Postal Service starts using ZIP code system | July 1, 1963 |
| Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars | July 4, 1997 |
| First all star game is played at Chicago's Wrigley Field | July 6, 1933 |
| The Libery Bell cracks | July 8, 1835 |
| Alexander Hamilton shot by V.P. Aaron Burr in a duel | July 11, 1804 |
| New York City paralyzed by 25 hour black-out | July 13, 1977 |
| First atomic bomb detonated in NM | July 16, 1945 |
| Little bomb dropped on hiroshima | August 6 1945 |
| Black Sox trial begins in Chicago | July 18, 1921 |
| Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger killed by FBI agents in Chicago | July 22, 1934 |
| An airplane crashes into the Empire State Building | July 23, 1935 |
| Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S | July 25, 1952 |
| President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces | July 26, 1946 |
| Bugs Bunny makes his debut | July 27, 1940 |
| Hawaii's first U.S. election send first Asian American to Congress | July 28, 1959 |
| Pres. Eisenhower signs legislation creating NASA | July 29, 1957 |
| Republic of Switerland founded, the oldest republic still existing | August 1, 1291 |
| Jesse Owens wins his third gold medal at Berlin Olympics | August 5, 1936 |
| Warner Bros. Studios premieres first talking pictures | August 6, 1926 |
| Spanish conqerors take Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) from the Aztecs | August 13, 1521 |
| Social Security Law is established | August 14, 1935 |
| Woostock rock festival begins | August 16, 1969 |
| Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice | August 30, 1967 |
| George Eastman patents roll film and registers the Kodak name | September 3, 1888 |
| Villiage of Los Angeles was founded | September 4, 1781 |
| Star Trek television program premieres | September 6, 1966 |
| St. Augustine, FL founded, first permanent European settlement in North America | September 8, 1565 |
| New York City becomes the first U.S. capital | September 13, 1788 |
| Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner | September 14, 1814 |
| First issue of the New York Times is published | September 18, 1851 |
| Gandhi begins a hunger strike protesting treatment of India's untouchables | September 20, 1932 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice | September 21, 1981 |
| Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, selling for $825 | October 1, 1908 |
| The Soviet Sputnik satellite is the first to orbit the earth | October 4, 1957 |
| U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuch Yeager is first pilot to exceed the speed of sound | October 14, 1947 |
| Albert Einstein emigrates to U.S. from Germany | October 17, 1933 |
| Great Influenza Epidemic begins, killing over 18 million | October 1918 |
| Dupont announces invention of Nylon, named for New York and London | October 27, 1938 |
| The Statue of Liberty is dedicated | October 28, 1886 |
| Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, triggering the Protestant Reformation | October 31, 1517 |
| Rutgers and Princeton play the first intercollegiate football game | November 6, 1869 |
| Al-Qarawiyyin library oldest library | 859 AD |
| Inca Empire falls to Spaniard Pizarro | November 16, 1532 |
| Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red Seas | November 17, 1868 |
| Mickey Mouse makes his animated debut in Steamboat Willie | Nobember 18, 1928 |
| The Mayflower Compact was signed | November 21, 1620 |
| President John F. Kennedy was assasinated | November 22, 1962 |
| The White House has its first telephone installed | December 1, 1880 |
| Delaware is the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution | December 7, 1787 |
| Washington, D.C. is established as the U.S. capital | December 12, 1800 |
| French King Louis XVI sentenced to death | January 19, 1793 |
| Space Shuttle Chanlleger explodes killing all on board | January 28, 1986 |
| White house fire | 1814 |
| white house built | October 13, 1792 |
| white house name change from executive mansion by roosevelt | 1901 |
| sq feet white house and how many rooms | 55,000 sq ft and 132 rooms 35 bathrooms |
| what year was paper invented | AD 105 by china |
| Delaware state | 1787 |
| Mark spitz Munich | 1972 |
| LA Olympics Carl Lewis | 1984 |
| What year did Ming dynasty end |
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