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This Hungarian-American journalist is born. Today, an award which recognizes journalistic achievements in the US bears his name.1847
Joseph Pulitzer
94.4%
Walt Whitman
1.8% John Newbery
3% Patrick Stone
0.8%
This book by author F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City. 1925
The Great Gatsby
93.4%
The Sun Also Rises
1.7% The Age of Innocence
1.6% The Sound and the Fury
1.2%
This American football player, coach, sportscaster, and video game namesake is born. 1936
John Madden
88%
Cris Collinsworth
2% Jimmy Johnson
4.9% Tony Dungy
2.3%
In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the US ______ team for a week-long visit.1971
Table Tennis
63.3%
Chess
6.4% Basketball
15% Gymnastics
11.5%
This English actress, who starred as Rey in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' is born.1992
Daisy Ridley
60.7%
Felicity Jones
19.6% Lupita Nyong'o
9.1% Hannah Murray
6.6%
Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg declares himself emperor of Mexico during the ______ intervention in Mexico.1864
French
25.2%
Spanish
35.3% Dutch
5.1% Austrian
33.1%
______ announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.1970
Paul McCartney
24.5%
John Lennon
64.7% George Harrison
4.8% Ringo Starr
2.8%
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