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This American actress, known for playing Princess Leia in the ‘Star Wars’ series, is born.1956
Carrie Fisher
96.6%
Meg Ryan
0.6% Annette Bening
0.6% Helen Hunt
0.5%
In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by this well-known American architect, opens to the public.1959
Frank Lloyd Wright
87.2%
Le Corbusier
4.1% Louis Sullivan
4.2% Alvar Aalto
2.5%
This woman and a staff of 38 nurses depart for the Crimean war front.1854
Florence Nightingale
84.8%
Virginia Henderson
1.3% Clara Barton
11.9% Elizabeth Blackwell
2%
Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of ______, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.1981
Greece
84.2%
Turkey
6.8% Austria
4.8% Sweden
2%
A coup d'état in this East African nation brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic.1969
Somalia
63.7%
Senegal
18.4% Namibia
8.6% Egypt
7.1%
Women in this European country are allowed to vote in a parliamentary election for the first time.1945
France
44.9%
Sweden
25.1% Denmark
18% Portugal
10.6%
President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting US President against ______ in the deep South.1921
Lynching
33.3%
Segregation
62% Rebel Flags
2.1% Sharecropping
1.8%
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