This Day in History
On this day in history in 1914, After some 10 years of work, this, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opened to ships.
What is the Panama Canal?
What is 6 years?
What is the United Kingdom?
This is Indiana's State bird.
What is the Northern Cardinal?
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What is One?
On this day in history in 1947, after three decades, the Indian independence movement, led by this man, achieved its goal as a free and independent Indian was established, ending nearly 200 years of British rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This is the minimum age to be elected to the United States House of Representatives.
What is 25?
Albert II is the son of American Actress Grace Kelly, and the ruling prince of this Nation.
What is Monaco?
What is the Peony?
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What is ten?
On this day in history in 1979, after a troubled production, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was released in theatres, and it became a film classic, noted for performances by Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, whose character famously says this phrase.
What is "I love the smell of napalm in the morning?"
This is the number of members in the United States Congress?
What is 535?
King Willem-Alexander ascended to throne in 2013 after his mother's abdication becoming the first male monarch of this nation in 123 years.
What is the Netherlands?
This is Indiana's state pie.
What is the Sugar Cream Pie?
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What is 50?
On this day in history in 1998, A car bomb exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and leaving more than 200 injured; this group, claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was the deadliest attack in Northern Ireland since the eruption of violence there in the late 1960s.
What is the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA)?
The United States Congress makes up this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Queen Margrethe II abdicated the throne in January of 2024, 52 years (to the day) after ascending to the throne in favor of her son King Frederik X becoming the second monarch in this nation's history to abdicate.
What is Denmark?
This is Indiana's state insect.
What is the Lightning Bug?
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What is 1,000?
On this day in history in 1960, the Republic of Congo gained its independence from this European Nation.
What is France?
Constitutionally, they are the President of the United States Senate?
Who is the Vice President?
King Harald V ascended to the throne in 1991, and he is Europe's oldest hereditary reigning monarch, at the age of 87.
What is Norway?
This is Indiana's state colors.
What are Blue and Gold?
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What is 1,214?