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This library, second only to the British Library by size, was established in 1800 when the US Congress moved from Philadelphia to Washington DC
Library of Congress
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Under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition began on January 17, 1920, one year after the amendment was ratified making the manufacture, sale, transportation, or consumption of this illegal.
Alcohol
100
The coronation of her took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey, London.
Queen Elizabeth
100
This TV show which first aired on Sept. 17, 1972 ran till 1983 and detailed the life of army hospital personnel during the Korean War.
M*A*S*H
100
In a trial that lasted most of 1995 he was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman.
OJ Simpson
100
On Feburary 4, 2004 this website came online after the collaboration by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard University Students to create a directory for students
200
This 305 ft statue, located on an island in New York Harbor, was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
Statue of Liberty
200
On July 23, 1921, this country's National Congress was established in the Shanghai French Concession area which is now a major tourist destination of the country.
China
200
On Jan 21, 1954 the USS Nautilus the world's first nuclear one of these launched.
submarine
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Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were apart of this crew who had to abandon what would have been the 3rd moon landing after an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission.
Apollo 13
200
on November 1st 1997 this movie released to theaters depicting the tragedy of a White Star Line passenger liner that sank in the Atlantic ocean on April 15, 1912
Titanic
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In February 2002 this backup and 6th round draft pick won the first of his now 7 rings after defeating the St Louis Rams.
Tom Brady
300
March 6, 1836 Texians fortified this Spanish Mission to repel two attacks from the Mexican Army before being overrun.
Alamo
300
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee was the last of the necessary 36 ratifying states to secure adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment extending the right to vote to these individuals.
Women
300
On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory of this into the Union as the 49th US state.
Alaska
300
They released their final album, "Let It Be," on May 8, 1970 one month after their frontrunner announced his plans to release a solo album.
Beatles
300
On 31 August 1997, She succumbed to her injuries that occurred after being involved in a car crash in Paris. It was later reported to be the fault of a paparazzi driver who lost control due to being under the influence of alcohol and medication.
Diana, Princess of Wales
300
Launched on January 15, 2001, this site is a free multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors. In January of 2007 it entered the top 10 most popular websites.
Wikipedia
400
January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued this Proclamation. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Emancipation Proclamation
400
On 17 February 1923 the discovery by Howard Carter of His nearly intact tomb, in excavations funded by Lord Carnarvon, received worldwide press coverage.
King Tutankhamun
400
On Dec. 1, 1955, she boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.
Rosa Parks
400
On August 16, 1977, this King of Rock 'n' Roll was found dead at 42 in the bathroom of his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elvis Presley
400
On July 16, 1999 this son of a US President and his wife Carolyn Bassette died when they were flying to Martha's Vineyard to attend a wedding.
John F Kennedy Jr
400
In September 2005 this caused the levees around the City of New Orleans to give way causing 80% of the city to be flooded with some areas having more than 20 feet of water.
Hurricane Katrina
500
"Für Elise" is the common name of the "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor", written by him in 1810.
Ludwig van Beethoven
500
Starting on October 4, 1927 this 60-foot-high monument began construction to reface the surface of the Six Grandfathers Granite formation in the Black Hills mountains of South Dakota.
Mount Rushmore
500
When this communist revolutionary and leader of Cuba visited the US for the first time in 1959 President Eisenhower refused to meet with him.
Fidel Castro
500
May 25, 1977, was a historic day for sci-fi fans and moviegoers everywhere when this film opened in theaters.
Star Wars
500
On April of 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in this US City was flattened by a homemade bomb in a parked car. Timothy McVeigh and others were found responsible for the bombing.
Oklahoma City
500
Before its bankruptcy on December 3, 2001, they employed approximately 29,000 staff and was a major electricity, natural gas, communications and pulp and paper company, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000.
Enron
600
The Treaty of Nanking signed on 29 August 1842 forced the Chinese Empire to cede this island to the British Empire. In 1997 it was given back to the Chinese Empire with stipulations for it to operate as an independent entity for at least 50 years.
Hong Kong
600
On May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him as the fifth Director of the Bureau of Investigation, a job he would hold for the next 37 years.
J. Edgar Hoover
600
This Pact was signed May 14, 1955 by Poland, the Soviet Union, and 7 other countries of Eastern Europe as a balance of power against NATO.
Warsaw
600
In February 1972 he became the first U.S President to Visit China
Nixon
600
On May 22, 1992 he retired from The Tonight Show ending a 30 year career as the host.
Johnny Carson
600
He was captain of the American container ship Maersk Alabama that had been hijacked in April 2009 by pirates off the coast of Somalia. A team from the USS Boxer was able to retrieve him after he was taken hostage by the pirates fleeing in one of the Maersk lifeboats.
Richard Phillips
700
July 1881 Henry McCarty, aka William H. Bonney, but more commonly known by this name was a fugitive who was tracked down by Sherriff Pat Garrett and killed.
Billy the Kid
700
On November 27th, 1924 this first one of these, sponsored by this company, was held in Manhattan and has been held annually, on this holiday, ever since.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
700
In 1954, The landmark US supreme court case of Brown vs [this entity] in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
Board of Education of Topeka
700
In April 1975, the fall of this largest and most populous Vietnamese city to the North Vietnamese Army effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War.
Saigon, Ho Chi Minh
700
On June 28, 1997 with 40 seconds remaining in the 2nd round of the WBA Heavyweight Championship Mike Tyson bit off a chunk of his right ear
Evander Holyfield
700
Seen here are former and current US Presidents (at the time) paying respects to this late pope that died in April of 2005 at the age of 84.
John Paul II
800
18 June 1815 during this battle a French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Waterloo
800
October 24th & 29th, 1929 would later be known as "Black Thursday" and "Black Friday" as it was the beginning of this event that brought about the Great Depression.
Wall Street Crash of 1929
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On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched a polished metal sphere approx. 23 inches in diameter fitted with radio transmitters into low Earth orbit. It would become known as the first artificial Earth Satellite named this.
Sputnik
800
On April 8, 1974 he broke Babe Ruth's career home run record, hitting home run No. 715 at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium.
Hank Aaron
800
In February of 1990, he was freed after serving 27 years of prison time due to a 'sabotage' charge. He would later serve as the first black President of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
800
In February 2003 upon re-entry to earth this NASA space shuttle exploded after a piece of insulating foam broke off and struck a hole in the edge of the left wing. All 7 crew members were killed.
Columbia
900
At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on this Fort in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor, and event which has traditionally been considered the start of the US Civil War.
Fort Sumter
900
At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop solo flight from New York City to Paris.
Charles Lindbergh
900
She was a major film actress in Hollywood in films with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra as well as three consecutive Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers. She retired from acting in 1956 at age 26 to marry Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
Grace Kelly
900
On September 5, 1972, during the Summer Olympics in this country; Two Israeli athletes had been killed and nine taken hostage by members of Black September, a Palestinian terrorist movement demanding the release of political prisoners by the Israeli government.
Germany
900
This handheld digital pet by Bandai named after the two Japanese words for "Egg" and "Watch" was released in the US by 1997 had you take care of a small pet by monitoring it's food, happiness, and health.
Tamagotchi
900
She was a 3 time gold medal winner at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use.
Marion Jones
1000
1833 two British naval vessels went to re-assert British sovereignty of these islands off the coast of Argentina when locals protested the appointment of a British Governor. In 1982 an un-official 10-week war between Argentina & the UK occurred that ultimately leg to the continuation of British sovereign rule.
Falkland Islands
1000
On November 18, 1928 the first appearance of Walt Disney's famous Mickey Mouse cartoon character shows up in this short animated black and white film.
Steamboat Willie
1000
In 1953 this couple were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage for providing information about U.S. military programs, nuclear and otherwise, to the Soviet Union.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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on August 31, 1972: This American professional chess player defeated Russian Boris Spassky to become the World Chess Champion, ending a Soviet win streak that dated to 1948.
Bobby Fischer
1000
Christopher George Latore Wallace better known by this stage name was an American rapper and songwriter best known for his debut album Life After Death that released 16 days after his death. He was murdered at age 24 by a drive by shooting while he was at a stop light in Los Angeles.
the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls
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He ran a Investment Securities LLC (named after himself) that in December of 2008 was exposed to be the largest private Ponzi scheme in history. In June 2009 he was sentenced to 150 years in prison with restitution of $170 billion.
Bernie Madoff