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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
90.9%
Marie Curie
2%
Niels Bohr
2.2%
Erwin Schrödinger
2.3%
This territory, particularly famous today for its cheese production, is admitted as the 30th US state.
1848		 Wisconsin
89.6%
Minnesota
3.8%
Iowa
3.8%
North Dakota
2.1%
This Founding Father, who is famously credited with saying ‘Give me liberty, or give me death,’ is born.
1736		 Patrick Henry
79.5%
Benjamin Franklin
13.4%
Paul Revere
5.5%
John Jay
1.6%
Emperor ______ of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1864		 Maximilian I
72.8%
Charles VIII
5.2%
Louis XII
6.4%
Napoleon III
14.2%
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa ______ become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1953		 Tenzing Norgay
72.7%
Temba Tsheri
8.7%
Pemba Dorje
6.2%
Lakpa Gelu
9.4%
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
60.6%
Sicilian Mafia
9.1%
Freemasons
8.1%
Albanian Mafia
20%
The Russian parliament elects this man as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1990		 Boris Yeltsin
54.3%
Mikhail Gorbachev
35%
Dmitry Medvedev
3.6%
Leonid Brezhnev
3.8%
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