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Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his ______.
1828		 Dictionary
94.3%
Bible
1%
Almanac
3.6%
Newspaper
1.1%
This book by John Steinbeck, which focuses on the Joad family, is first published.
1939		 The Grapes of Wrath
81.6%
East of Eden
5.1%
The Pearl
1%
Of Mice and Men
10.5%
The first car built by this Swedish company premiers in the city of Gothenburg.
1927		 Volvo
80.4%
Jaguar
1.5%
Fiat
4.5%
Audi
12.2%
276 schoolgirls are abducted by this extremist group in Chibok, Nigeria.
2014		 Boko Haram
78.9%
Al-Qaeda
6.3%
ISIS
7.6%
Hamas
4.5%
The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. From which English city did the Titanic depart?
1912		 Southampton
78.6%
Sunderland
1.7%
Scarborough
2.7%
Manchester
16.4%
With the signing of the Geneva Accords in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union pledges to withdraw troops from ______.
1988		 Afghanistan
66.6%
Vietnam
4.2%
Yugoslavia
19.9%
Georgia
6.8%
This American baseball player and manager, who holds the MLB record for career hits, is born.
1941		 Pete Rose
53.5%
Hank Aaron
27.9%
Wade Boggs
4.9%
Cal Ripken, Jr.
11.4%
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