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The last ______ trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
1878		 Witchcraft
98.2%
Treason
0.6%
Show
0.4%
Non-Jury
0.8%
This American computer programmer and businessman, the co-founder of Facebook, is born.
1984		 Mark Zuckerberg
94%
Sean Parker
0.9%
Elon Musk
0.8%
Larry Page
1.2%
The final episode of this television ‘show about nothing’ airs on NBC.
1998		 Seinfeld
85.6%
Everybody Loves Raymond
2.4%
Friends
7.3%
The Nanny
1.5%
Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called this.
1955		 Warsaw Pact
81.9%
Pact of Steel
1.8%
Treaty of Moscow
7.4%
Eastern Bloc Joint Declaration
6.6%
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the activities of this terrorist group.
2013		 Boko Haram
75.9%
Al-Qaeda‎
15.8%
Lord's Resistance Army‎
3.5%
Hofstad Network
1.4%
______, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
1973		 Skylab
64.6%
Mir
9.5%
International Space Station
17.9%
Freedom
5.3%
Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by neighboring Arab states, triggering this war.
1948		 Arab–Israeli War
43.2%
Six-Day War
30.7%
Yom Kippur War
21.9%
War of Attrition
3.1%
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