This anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe starts a ten-month run in the ‘National Era’ abolitionist newspaper. 1851
Uncle Tom's Cabin
85%
Twelve Years a Slave
8.5%
An American Slave
3.4%
My Bondage and My Freedom
2.9%
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
84.4%
George C. Wallace
4.5%
Harvey Milk
4.9%
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
79.4%
Matt Damon
4.6%
Leonardo DiCaprio
2.4%
Channing Tatum
8.8%
The first regularly scheduled trip of this passenger train service departs from Paris. 1883
Orient Express
71.9%
Trans-Siberian Railway
8.2%
Constantinople Express
1.8%
French Transcontinental Railway
16.8%
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
70%
Yom Kippur War
16.1%
Sinai War
7.9%
Security Zone Conflict
2%
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, ______, on ‘The Milton Berle Show,’ scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1956
Hound Dog
49%
All Shook Up
25.5%
Jailhouse Rock
22.4%
Too Much
0.8%
The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the ______ religion. 1984
Sikh
43.7%
Hindu
28.4%
Buddhist
21.6%
Christian
1.2%
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