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In 1912, the world was changed forever as these cookies first went on sale.
What are Oreos?
In 2020, he left the Microsoft board after founding the company four decades prior.
Who is Bill Gates?
In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his machinery invention.
What is cotton gin?
In 1999, Ricky Martin released this, his biggest hit.
What is "Livin' La Vida Loca?"
In 1998, Europe's longest this officially opened in Lisbon, Portugal.
What is a bridge?
In 1940, the first telecast was made from an airplane flying over this American city.
What is New York?
In 1969, this and its crew were returned to Earth after a 10-day mission orbiting Earth.
What is Apollo 9?
In 1879, a German physicist and mathematician whom was discovered for his theory of relativity was born.
Who is Albert Einstein?
What is an elevator?
In 2004, Ireland became the first in the world to ban this in pubs, restaurants, and workplaces.
What is smoking?
In 1970, The Beatles released this, their second-to-last single before splitting up.
What is "Let it Be"?
BONUS: Name the last single released.
In 1942, the US Army enlisted Julia Flikke as its first female this.
What is Colonel?
In 1972, who won Grammy award for best R&B song, "Ain't No Sunshine".
Who is Bill Withers?
In 1933, the German legislature passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave this person complete control over Germany.
Who is Hitler?
In 1929, President Herbert Hoover installed the White House's first this.
What is telephone?
In 1964, boxing champion Muhammad Ali legal changed his name from this when he converted to Islam.
What is Cassius Clay?
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh announced the discovery of this planet (that had since been demoted).
What is Pluto?
BONUS: Name the other planet discovered on this day in 1781.
In 1942, Anne Miller became the first American patient to be treated by one of the first antibodies that would treat bacterial infections.
What is penicillin?
In 1919, Benito Mussolini led a fascist political rally in this Italian city.
What is Milan?
In 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 became the first spacecraft to reach this planet.
What is Mercury?
In 1521, this Portuguese Navigator and Explorer "discovered" Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
In 1877, this winter accessory was patented by Chester Greenwood with the help of his grandmother when he was just 15 years old.
What are earmuffs?
In 2006, Mike Wallace retired from what U.S. television news program after 37 years.
What is "60 Minutes"?
On this day in 1973, while Yoko Ono was granted permanent residence in the United States, this Beatle was issued a 60-day notice to leave the country.
Who is John Lennon?
In 1795, this famous musician preformed in person for the first time in Vienna, Austria.
Who is Beethoven?
In 1964, athlete Tom O'Hara smashed a world record by doing this in just 3 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
What is run 1 mile?
In 1915, American baseball catcher Wilbert Robinson tried to claim a record by catching a ball dropped from a plane 525 feet above him, but ended up catching this fruit instead.
What is a grapefruit?
In 1923, which U.S. President became the first to file a full-year income tax return?
Who is Warren G. Harding?
In 2016, researchers in England declared that the skull in this grave was probably stolen and replaced with someone else's by grave robbers.
Who is William Shakespeare?
In 1974, this famous army was uncovered by a group of farmers near Xi'an, China.
What are The Terracotta Warriors?