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This man sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States for the low low price of $15 million.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Economic reforms by this leader led to significant growth for China and has been seen as "an economic miracle."
Deng Xiaoping
The phrase "an eye for an eye" is a paraphrase from this legal code.
Hammurabi's Code
This person holds the record for most Oscar wins at the Academy Awards.
Walt Disney
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Abraham Lincoln
FDR used the phrase "a date which will live in infamy" in a speech to Congress to refer to this event.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Chametz are foods with leavening agents that are forbidden on this Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Passover
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled "students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
Tinker v. Des Moines
In 1968, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan assassinated this individual at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy
The first marathon happened in order to send a war message. In what city did the first marathon take place?
Athens, Greece
This late 18th - early 19th century art style emphasizes emotions, nature, and history, and REJECTS industry, science, and logic.
Romanticism
Margaret Atwood penned this 1985 bestseller about a dystopian future in which a fertility crisis leads to drastic measures.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Habsburgs
The USS Constellation docked in this city is the last ship to survive from the Civil War
Baltimore
Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire)
The recipe for this popular Cuba dish is over 500 years old, originated with the Sephardic Jews in the Iberian peninsula of Spain, and literally translates to "old clothes."
Ropa Vieja
In 1853, this commodore entered Tokyo Bay and forced Japan to trade with the U.S., ending centuries of isolationism.
Matthew Perry
In the story of David and Goliath, David defeated the giant with this weapon.
A sling and stone
This British "holiday" commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 where a group of Roman Catholics tried to kill James I for a lack of relgious tolerance.
Guy Fawkes Night
After Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, the provisional government was led originally by Prince Georgy Lvov and then this Russian lawyer.
Alexander Kerensky
This is the number of U.S. vice presidents who later became president.
15 (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden)
This person was the first non-American TIME Person of the Year.
Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
The Republic of China (1912-1949) was founded by this physician turned revolutionary.
Sun Yat-sen
This African leader ruled the Congo for 32 years with a dictatorial reign characterized by brutality, corruption, and decadence, all while wearing a leopard skin hat.
Mobutu Sese Seko
The outlaw of the guoilltine in France, Lady Diana and Prince Charles' wedding, and the end of the Iran Hostage Crisis all occurred in this year.
1981