| 102401. |
Name The Year: First known auto race
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| 102402. |
Name The Year: Jacques Yves Cousteau (in France), marine explorer, born
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1 |
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| 102403. |
Name The Year: Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights leader & politician, born
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1 |
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| 102404. |
Name The Year: Gene Wilder, comedic actor, born
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| 102405. |
Name The Year: Jackie Stewart, race-car driver, Ford spokesperson, born
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| 102406. |
Name The Year: Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
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| 102407. |
Name The Year: US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during World War II
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| 102408. |
Name The Year: Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
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| 102409. |
Name The Year: Movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" released in America
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1 |
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| 102410. |
Name The Year: Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain. Phillipine Independance day
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1 |
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| 102411. |
Name The Year: Uta Hagen, born
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1 |
1 |
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| 102412. |
Name The Year: George Herbert Walker Bush, former President of the United States, born
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1 |
1 |
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| 102413. |
Name The Year: Jim Nabors, actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC; Mayberry RFD), singer, born
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1 |
1 |
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| 102414. |
Name The Year: Nelson Mandela begins a long jail term in South Africa
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1 |
1 |
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| 102415. |
Name The Year: Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship in a 4-1 series against the Los Angeles Lakers
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1 |
1 |
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| 102416. |
Name The Year: Charles II (the Bald) king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77), born
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102417. |
Name The Year: Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina), born
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102418. |
Name The Year: Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon", Christchurch, N.Z.
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102419. |
Name The Year: King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102420. |
Name The Year: Paris evacuated before the German advance
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1 |
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| 102421. |
Name The Year: Beatles' "Let It Be", album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks, Beatles' "Long & Winding Road", single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
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1 |
1 |
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| 102422. |
Name The Year: Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
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1 |
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| 102423. |
Name The Year: Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102424. |
Name The Year: Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102425. |
Name The Year: Dorothy L Sayers England, novelist (9 Taylors), born
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102426. |
Name The Year: Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102427. |
Name The Year: Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight distance record, Seattle, U.S.A. to Narobi, Kenya
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102428. |
Name The Year: Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102429. |
Name The Year: Burl Ives Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102430. |
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102431. |
Name The Year: Donald Trump master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102432. |
Name The Year: Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102433. |
Name The Year: Steffi Graf, West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102434. |
Name The Year: Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102435. |
Name The Year: B.C. Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102436. |
Name The Year: King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102437. |
Name The Year: Edward the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102438. |
Name The Year: Margaret Jones of Charlestown became the first person tried and executed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102439. |
Name The Year: 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102440. |
Name The Year: Edvard Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102441. |
Name The Year: Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102442. |
Name The Year: Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102443. |
Name The Year: Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102444. |
Name The Year: 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102445. |
Name The Year: Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102446. |
Name The Year: French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102447. |
Name The Year: Jim Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102448. |
Name The Year: John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102449. |
Name The Year: Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102450. |
Name The Year: Helen Hunt LA Calif, actress (Mad About You), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102451. |
Name The Year: Courtney Cox Birmingham Ala, actress (Monica on Friends), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102452. |
Name The Year: Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102453. |
Name The Year: Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102454. |
Name The Year: En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102455. |
Name The Year: Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102456. |
Name The Year: Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102457. |
Name The Year: Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102458. |
Name The Year: Stan Laurel comedian (Laurel & Hardy), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102459. |
Name The Year: Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102460. |
Name The Year: Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua] Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102461. |
Name The Year: Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine President Juan Peron
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102462. |
Name The Year: Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102463. |
Name The Year: Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102464. |
Name The Year: Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard the French ship `Isere'
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102465. |
Name The Year: Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102466. |
Name The Year: France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102467. |
Name The Year: First American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW II)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102468. |
Name The Year: Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102469. |
Name The Year: Arrest of burglars starts the Watergate affair
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102470. |
Name The Year: President Galtieri resigns in Argentina
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102471. |
Name The Year: Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102472. |
Name The Year: Eighteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102473. |
Name The Year: Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. The premium is 383 pounds
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102474. |
Name The Year: War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102475. |
Name The Year: Battle of Waterloo -- British and Prussians defeat Napoleon
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102476. |
Name The Year: Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102477. |
Name The Year: Amelia Earhart is first woman to cross the Atlantic
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102478. |
Name The Year: Egypt proclaimed a republic
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102479. |
Name The Year: Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102480. |
Name The Year: Space Shuttle test model the "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for the first time. It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102481. |
Name The Year: Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires. (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor first woman on the high court)
|
1 |
1 |
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| 102482. |
Name The Year: Blaise Pascal, mathematician, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102483. |
Name The Year: Slavery is abolished in the US territories
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102484. |
Name The Year: Mexico's deposed emperor Maximilian is executed
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102485. |
Name The Year: Duchess of Windsor, famous divorcee, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102486. |
Name The Year: Malcolm McDowell, actor, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102487. |
Name The Year: Kathleen Turner, actress, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102488. |
Name The Year: Paula Abdul, singer, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102489. |
Name The Year: Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, returns to earth
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102490. |
Name The Year: Soyuz 9 returns to Earth
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102491. |
Name The Year: Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann first US male saint
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102492. |
Name The Year: Garfield, famous cat (big fat hairy deal), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102493. |
Name The Year: Artificial heart recipient Murray P. Haydon died in Louisville, KY
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102494. |
Name The Year: Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102495. |
Name The Year: King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102496. |
Name The Year: Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years until 1901
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102497. |
Name The Year: King William IV of England, dies
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102498. |
Name The Year: Jean Moulin hero of the French Resistance during WW II, born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102499. |
Name The Year: Errol Flynn actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags), born
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 102500. |
Name The Year: DeForest Kelley Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek), born
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1 |
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100 |