| 181201. |
Name The Year: Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry.
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| 181202. |
Name The Year: Jeff Buckley (singer, son of Tim Buckley)
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| 181203. |
Name The Year: Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon.
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| 181204. |
Name The Year: Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
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| 181205. |
Name The Year: Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel.
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| 181206. |
Name The Year: South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim was legally declared dead.
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| 181207. |
Name The Year: Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope.
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| 181208. |
Name The Year: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
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| 181209. |
Name The Year: Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French.
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| 181210. |
Name The Year: Antarctica discovered by U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
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| 181211. |
Name The Year: Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame)
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| 181212. |
Name The Year: U.S. and Canada begin the use of standard time zones (standard time zones established by the railroads in both countries).
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| 181213. |
Name The Year: Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
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| 181214. |
Name The Year: George H. Gallop, pollster (what's your opinion?)
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1 |
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| 181215. |
Name The Year: Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights through Panama.
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1 |
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| 181216. |
Name The Year: U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya.
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1 |
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| 181217. |
Name The Year: Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop.
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1 |
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| 181218. |
Name The Year: Latvia declares independence from Russia.
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1 |
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| 181219. |
Name The Year: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., first American in space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
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1 |
100 |
| 181220. |
Name The Year: Mickey Mouse, cartoon character, sired by Walt Disney's pen
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1 |
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| 181221. |
Name The Year: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie".
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1 |
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| 181222. |
Name The Year: William "Pete" Knight, X-15 pilot, born.
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1 |
100 |
| 181223. |
Name The Year: Brenda Vaccaro (in Brooklyn, NY) actor (Midnight Cowboy)
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1 |
100 |
| 181224. |
Name The Year: "Flowers and Trees" awarded first Academy Award for a cartoon.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181225. |
Name The Year: Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined.
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1 |
100 |
| 181226. |
Name The Year: Linda Evans, actor (Dynasty), born.
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1 |
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| 181227. |
Name The Year: First ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181228. |
Name The Year: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
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1 |
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| 181229. |
Name The Year: Puerto Rico Discovery Day.
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1 |
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| 181230. |
Name The Year: Charles I, king of England (1625-49); later executed by Parliament
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1 |
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| 181231. |
Name The Year: Pilgrims reach Cape Cod on the Mayflower.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181232. |
Name The Year: First protestant ministry society in New England.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181233. |
Name The Year: Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181234. |
Name The Year: President Lincoln delivers his famous address at Gettysburg, PA.
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1 |
100 |
| 181235. |
Name The Year: Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
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1 |
1 |
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| 181236. |
Name The Year: The pencil is invented.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181237. |
Name The Year: Tommy Dorsey, band leader
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181238. |
Name The Year: Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181239. |
Name The Year: Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations rejected by U.S. Senate.
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1 |
100 |
| 181240. |
Name The Year: Dan Haggerty, actor (Grizzly Adams)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181241. |
Name The Year: Calvin Klein, clothes designer
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181242. |
Name The Year: Kathleen Quinlan (in Mill Valley, CA), actor (Twilight Zone)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181243. |
Name The Year: Ford Motor Company cancels the Edsel.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181244. |
Name The Year: Jodie Foster (in Los Angeles, CA), actor (Silence of the Lambs, Nell, The Accused)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181245. |
Name The Year: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181246. |
Name The Year: Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181247. |
Name The Year: Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181248. |
Name The Year: Britain declares war against Holland.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181249. |
Name The Year: Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181250. |
Name The Year: William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181251. |
Name The Year: Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181252. |
Name The Year: Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181253. |
Name The Year: Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181254. |
Name The Year: The U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181255. |
Name The Year: Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181256. |
Name The Year: Robert Kennedy (in Brookline, Mass), Democratic Senator from New York, U.S. Attorney General; later assassinated
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181257. |
Name The Year: Veronica Hamel (in Philadelphia, PA), actor (Hill Street Blues)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181258. |
Name The Year: International War Crimes Tribunal opens trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181259. |
Name The Year: Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten in London's Westminster Abbey.
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1 |
1 |
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| 181260. |
Name The Year: Bo Derek (in Long Beach, CA), actor? (10; Tarzan, Ape Man)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181261. |
Name The Year: Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181262. |
Name The Year: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israel's Knesset.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181263. |
Name The Year: Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes first solar-powered flight.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181264. |
Name The Year: Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181265. |
Name The Year: UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181266. |
Name The Year: Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown, MA harbor.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181267. |
Name The Year: Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown).
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1 |
1 |
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| 181268. |
Name The Year: Voltaire, thinker
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181269. |
Name The Year: Pilftre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181270. |
Name The Year: William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181271. |
Name The Year: Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181272. |
Name The Year: Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181273. |
Name The Year: Rene Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181274. |
Name The Year: Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181275. |
Name The Year: Vivian Blaine, actor (Guys and Dolls)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181276. |
Name The Year: Henry W. "Hank" Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4, 41D, 61A)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181277. |
Name The Year: First US ambassador to the USSR (W.C. Bullitt).
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181278. |
Name The Year: Marlo Thomas (in Detroit, Michigan), actor (That Girl)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181279. |
Name The Year: Natalia Maskarova (in Lenningrad), ballerina
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181280. |
Name The Year: Juliet Mills (in London, England)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181281. |
Name The Year: Goldie Hawn (in Washington, DC), actor (Butterflies Are Free, Foul Play, Private Benjamin)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181282. |
Name The Year: Jack Benny (Violin) and Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181283. |
Name The Year: The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens, becoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181284. |
Name The Year: The "Who Shot JR" episode of "Dallas" begins the tradition of season-ending cliff-hangers.
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1 |
1 |
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| 181285. |
Name The Year: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
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1 |
1 |
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| 181286. |
Name The Year: George Eliot (in England), novelist (Silas Marner)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181287. |
Name The Year: Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181288. |
Name The Year: Charles de Gaulle, pres of France (1958-69), general
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181289. |
Name The Year: International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181290. |
Name The Year: Benjamin Britten, English composer
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181291. |
Name The Year: Geraldine Page (in Kirksville, MO), actor (Trip to Bountiful)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181292. |
Name The Year: Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181293. |
Name The Year: Robert Vaughn, actor (Man from U.N.C.L.E)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181294. |
Name The Year: Billie Jean King (in California), tennis pro
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181295. |
Name The Year: Lebanon gains independence from France (National Day).
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1 |
1 |
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| 181296. |
Name The Year: Jamie Lee Curtis (in Los Angeles, CA), actor, (Halloween, Trading Places, True Lies), Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh's daughter
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1 |
1 |
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| 181297. |
Name The Year: Mariel Hemingway (in Ketchum, Idaho), actor (Star 80, Manhattan, Personal Best)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 181298. |
Name The Year: President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas; Lee Harvey Oswald is assumed to have been the assasin.
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1 |
1 |
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| 181299. |
Name The Year: UN Security council passes resolution 242, declaring that Israel must give back land won in the 6 day war.
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1 |
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| 181300. |
Name The Year: Beatles release "The Beatles", their only double album.
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