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
90.7%
Haiti
4%
Dominican Republic
1.2%
Jamaica
0.9%
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is first published in Boston by this author and abolitionist, immediately receiving widespread attention. 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
87.5%
Louisa May Alcott
7%
Margaret Fuller
2.7%
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2%
Napoleon returns from exile on this island to enter Paris, beginning the 'Hundred Days' rule and the end of the Napoleonic wars. 1815
Elba
82.8%
Crete
5.7%
Cyprus
6.3%
Sicily
5.1%
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
82.2%
Papua New Guinea
4.2%
Singapore
9.5%
Brunei
2.5%
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
70.5%
Willie Stargell
10.8%
Bill Mazeroski
6.7%
Mike Schmidt
9.5%
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%
Orca Whale
7.7%
Humpback Whale
14.1%
Great White Shark
6.3%
The first of these theme parks to be constructed outside of Europe opens in Carlsbad, California. 1999
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