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On This Day: February 17th Quiz Stats

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'His Airness', future 14-time NBA All-Star, 5-time NBA MVP, and 6-time NBA champion is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1963		 Michael Jordan
88.6%
Hakeem Olajuwon
2%
Patrick Ewing
4.8%
David Robinson
1.7%
This Charleston stronghold, which was the location of the first battle of the US Civil War, is abandoned by Confederate soldiers.
1865		 Fort Sumter
77%
Fort Knox
9.4%
Fort McHenry
9%
Fort Randolph
2.6%
Myles Standish is named the first military commander of the Plymouth Colony militia located in this contemporary US state.
1621		 Massachusetts
74.1%
New York
3.3%
Connecticut
4.8%
Virginia
17.7%
Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov defeats this IBM-built supercomputer in Game 6 to claim the series 4-2 in favor of Kasparov.
1996		 Deep Blue
60%
Watson
27.6%
REBEL
6.6%
Deep Fritz
2.7%
This Apache warrior dies in US captivity in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
1909		 Geronimo
53.6%
Sitting Bull
37.6%
Cochise
4.3%
Red Cloud
1.8%
This nation surrenders the War of the Quadruple Alliance to Great Britain, France, the Dutch Republic, and Austria by signing the Treaty of the Hague.
1720		 Spain
46%
Russia
23.1%
Sweden
13.5%
Italy
16.8%
This English historian publishes the first volume of 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
1776		 Edward Gibbon
35%
John Stuart Mill
17.3%
Edmund Burke
30.9%
Adam Smith
15.7%
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