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On This Day: June 5th Quiz Stats

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This anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe starts a ten-month run in the ‘National Era’ abolitionist newspaper.
1851		 Uncle Tom's Cabin
88.7%
Twelve Years a Slave
5.8%
An American Slave
3.3%
My Bondage and My Freedom
2.2%
This US presidential candidate is shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He would die the next day.
1968		 Robert Kennedy
84.8%
George C. Wallace
4.2%
Harvey Milk
4.8%
Huey Long
1.8%
This American actor, who also spent time as a rapper and had a hit song, ‘Good Vibrations’, is born.
1971		 Mark Wahlberg
81.4%
Matt Damon
3.8%
Leonardo DiCaprio
2.2%
Channing Tatum
7.9%
In response to the mobilization of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border, Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian airfields, beginning this conflict.
1967		 Six-Day War
72.1%
Yom Kippur War
14.6%
Sinai War
7.3%
Security Zone Conflict
2.1%
The first regularly scheduled trip of this passenger train service departs from Paris.
1883		 Orient Express
70.2%
Trans-Siberian Railway
8.7%
Constantinople Express
1.6%
French Transcontinental Railway
17.9%
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, ______, on ‘The Milton Berle Show,’ scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1956		 Hound Dog
49.1%
All Shook Up
26.7%
Jailhouse Rock
21.1%
Too Much
0.7%
The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the ______ religion.
1984		 Sikh
41.8%
Hindu
29.7%
Buddhist
22.6%
Christian
1%
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