US President Barack Obama arrives at this island nation, becoming the first President to have set foot on their soil in almost 90 years. 2016
Cuba
89.6%
Haiti
4.5%
Dominican Republic
1.3%
Jamaica
1.1%
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is first published in Boston by this author and abolitionist, immediately receiving widespread attention. 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
86.7%
Louisa May Alcott
7.3%
Margaret Fuller
2.8%
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2.3%
Napoleon returns from exile on this island to enter Paris, beginning the 'Hundred Days' rule and the end of the Napoleonic wars. 1815
Elba
83.4%
Crete
5.7%
Cyprus
5.9%
Sicily
4.9%
General MacArthur first delivers a speech containing the famous phrase 'I shall return' after US forces were expelled from this modern nation by the Imperial Japanese forces. 1942
The Philippines
81.3%
Papua New Guinea
4.2%
Singapore
9.9%
Brunei
2.7%
A female specimen of this animal, the largest in the world, weighing 150 metric tons and measuring more than 90 ft. is caught near the Falkland Islands. 1947
Blue Whale
70.4%
Orca Whale
7.4%
Humpback Whale
13.7%
Great White Shark
6.3%
A special election is held to posthumously induct this Pittsburgh Pirates great into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, only weeks after his sudden death. 1973
Roberto Clemente
69.2%
Willie Stargell
10.7%
Bill Mazeroski
7.3%
Mike Schmidt
10.1%
The first of these theme parks to be constructed outside of Europe opens in Carlsbad, California. 1999
Legoland
58.7%
Knott's Berry Farm
7.8%
Six Flags
19.9%
Schlitterbahn
10.3%
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