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Events Year
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Bush v. Gore; Slobodan Milošević resigns presidency of Yugoslavia 2000
92.6% US and allied forces invade Iraq; Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart on re-entry 2003
86.9% Germany reunified; NASA launches Hubble Space Telescope 1990
84.7% Sporcle debuts; Cristina Fernández de Kirchner elected Argentina's first female president 2007
84.1% Benedict XVI becomes first pope in six centuries to resign office; Sporcle tops 1 billion plays 2013
83.6% Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad 1943
81.9% Kyrgyzstan gains independence; Warsaw Pact dissolved 1991
81.5% Battle of Midway between US and Japan; Disney's Bambi released in theaters 1942
81.1% George Washington re-elected President of US; King Louis XVI arrested, French monarchy abolished 1792
75.1% Panama declares independence from Colombia; First World Series Played 1903
72.4% First modern Olympics held in Athens; Alfred Nobel dies, leaves fortune to establish Nobel Prizes 1896
72.4%
Events Year
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Great Chilean Earthquake, magnitude 9.5; Soviet Union shoots down American U-2 spy plane 1960
71.1% Leif Eriksson sails from Greenland for Norway; Hungary unified under King Stephen I 1000
68.9% John Muir founds Sierra Club; James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball 1892
68.1% Henry VIII of England born; Final battle of Spanish Reconquista - the Siege of Granada - begins 1491
63% Robert Walpole resigns as Britain's first Prime Minister; Handel's Messiah debuts in Dublin 1742
59.2% Treaty of Paris signed, ending Crimean War; Sigmund Freud born 1856
59.1% Sweyn I of Denmark invades England; Construction begins on Bṛhadīśvara temple in southern India 1003
58.5% Anselm becomes a monk; King Henry I of France dies 1060
55.5% US Commodore Matthew Perry sails into Tokyo Bay to open trade negotiations; Mexico and US reach agreement on Gadsden Purchase 1853
54.6% Askia the Great becomes ruler of Songhai Empire; Pope divides New World between Portugal and Spain 1493
52.1% Turks conquer Constantinople; Hundred Years War ends 1453
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