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The American Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort ______, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1861		 Sumter
89.4%
Monroe
4.3%
Stevens
3%
Davidson
3%
This American author, who wrote ‘The Hunt for Red October’, is born.
1947		 Tom Clancy
83.6%
J.D. Salinger
4.2%
David Foster Wallace
3.3%
Michael Crichton
7.5%
______ becomes the first human to travel into outer space.
1961		 Yuri Gagarin
82%
Alan Shepard
5%
John Glenn
8.4%
Alexey Leonov
2.9%
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office, leaving this man as president.
1945		 Harry Truman
77.8%
Herbert Hoover
6.6%
Dwight D. Eisenhower
8.8%
Calvin Coolidge
5.9%
This American actress, who starred in ‘Romeo + Juliet’, is born.
1979		 Claire Danes
69.4%
Scarlett Johansson
10.7%
Natalie Portman
14.3%
Amy Adams
3.7%
The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland ______.
1992		 Paris
69.4%
Europe
18.7%
London
2.1%
EU
7.7%
This state adopts the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.
1776		 North Carolina
15.6%
Delaware
24.2%
Pennsylvania
14.2%
Massachusetts
46%
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