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On This Day: May 19th Quiz Stats

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A birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York. The highlight is this actress’ rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.
1962		 Marilyn Monroe
94.9%
Audrey Hepburn
1%
Elizabeth Taylor
1.4%
Jayne Mansfield
0.7%
This Vietnamese politician, the 1st President of Vietnam, is born.
1890		 Ho Chi Minh
75.2%
Võ Nguyên Giáp
9.5%
Pol Pot
9.1%
Mao Zedong
4.7%
The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ‘Letter from ______ Jail.’
1963		 Birmingham
60.9%
Montgomery
30%
Jackson
3%
Atlanta
3.7%
Mexico ratifies this treaty, thus ending the Mexican–American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and other parts of modern-day US states to the United States.
1848		 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
52.8%
Treaty of Texas
18%
Treaty of Santa Ana
24.5%
Treaty of Cahuenga
3.9%
Citizens of this nation on the Adriatic Sea vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
1991		 Croatia
49.4%
Serbia
24.9%
Kosovo
18.7%
Bulgaria
4.2%
Jean-Pierre Christin developes the ______ temperature scale.
1743		 Centigrade
48.8%
Fahrenheit
27.5%
Kelvin
16.1%
Christinium
7.7%
______ Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo. There were no survivors and the reasons for the crash remain uncertain.
2016		 EgyptAir
45.2%
Air France
24%
Lufthansa
11.3%
KLM
16.4%
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