This scientist’s theory of general relativity is tested (and later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. 1919
Albert Einstein
90.3%
Marie Curie
2%
Niels Bohr
2.2%
Erwin Schrödinger
2%
This territory, particularly famous today for its cheese production, is admitted as the 30th US state. 1848
Wisconsin
86.4%
Minnesota
4.8%
Iowa
5.1%
North Dakota
2.8%
This Founding Father, who is famously credited with saying ‘Give me liberty, or give me death,’ is born. 1736
Patrick Henry
73.9%
Benjamin Franklin
17.6%
Paul Revere
6.6%
John Jay
1.9%
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa ______ become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 1953
Tenzing Norgay
72.1%
Temba Tsheri
8.7%
Pemba Dorje
6.1%
Lakpa Gelu
9.3%
Emperor ______ of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time. 1864
Maximilian I
71.7%
Charles VIII
6.2%
Louis XII
6.4%
Napoleon III
13.9%
In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by this organization, which would later play a significant role in the outbreak of WWI. 1903
Black Hand
61.9%
Sicilian Mafia
8.4%
Freemasons
8.1%
Albanian Mafia
18.9%
The Russian parliament elects this man as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. 1990
Boris Yeltsin
55%
Mikhail Gorbachev
33.1%
Dmitry Medvedev
3.7%
Leonid Brezhnev
4%
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