______, famous for playing Spock on ‘Star Trek’, is born. 1931
Leonard Nimoy
90.5%
William Shatner
4%
George Takei
2.5%
James Doohan
0.8%
This American singer-songwriter, who was a former member of ‘The Supremes', is born. 1944
Diana Ross
87%
Donna Summer
4.3%
Tina Turner
3.1%
Dionne Warwick
3%
The Battle of ______ ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. 1945
Iwo Jima
83.4%
Normandy
9.8%
Crete
1.7%
Singapore
1.8%
This book, published by Joseph Smith, is first sold in Palmyra, New York. 1830
Book of Mormon
78.8%
Gospel of Thomas
1.6%
Battlefield Earth
1.8%
Book of Latter-day Saints
16.9%
A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette first coins this term, which is used to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection. 1812
Gerrymander
78.5%
Filibuster
9.8%
Muckraker
5.8%
Coattails
5.8%
This American poet and playwright, known for his work ‘The Road Not Taken’, is born. 1874
Robert Frost
70.8%
Walt Whitman
19.7%
Wallace Stevens
2.1%
Langston Hughes
5.6%
Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. Members of this cult believed in an extraterrestrial spacecraft following this comet. 1997
Hale–Bopp
52.2%
Halley's
36.7%
Hyakutake
2.5%
Kohoutek
5.1%
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